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Results: France upsets Switzerland in the first event of the 2008 Mountain Bike World Championships.

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1. France (Jean-Christoph Peraud, Arnaud Jouffroy, Laurence Leboucher, Alexis Vuillermoz), 23.38km in 1:24:45;
2. Switzerland (Florian Vogel, Matthias Rupp, Petra Henzi, Nino Schurter), at 2:22;
3. Italy (Marco Fontana, Gerhard Kerschbaumer, Eva Lechner, Cristian Cominelli), at 2:23;
4. Poland (Marcin Karczynski, Marek Konwa, Maja Wloszczowska, Dariusz Batek), at 2:48;
5. Czech Republic (Jaroslav Kulhavy, Jakub Magnusek, Katerina Nash, Jan Skarnitzl), at 3:25;

North Americans
6. Canada (Raphael Gagne, Catherine Pendrel, Derek Zandstra, Evan Guthrie), at 3:25;
8. USA (Georgia Gould, John Bennett, Sam Jurekovic, Adam Craig), at 5:27
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