Hot cup of joe in hand & catching the replay- damn, tough watching Tracey being ping-ponged down the course like that; whole run fell apart after mounting her top tube in the top section. Props to Manon for dusting herself off & getting to the bottom (in 4th no less)- ate it hard. No doubt going to be feeling pretty sore in the morning.
Minnaar- he's just so goddamn....vanilla. Vanilla bores me. He's like the Virginia Ham of the pig cut.
Just putting it out there, they've done a good job of choking it for a few years now but the MTBA better cease & desist with the narrow agenda, extract the fucking digit & invest in the Aus DH program- we're looking down the barrel of a massive vacuum. Going to be a considerable deficit once our top riders (the staples over the last decade) move away from WC racing- below them the Aussie ranks are thin, as too the depth of experience. The MTBA are losing all of that incredible momentum built by Sharples & the Aussie riders of the modern era, which in turn will translate as a distinct lack of mentoring, a lack of results & subsequently a lack reinvestment. Completely under-capitalising in an area of cycling we've always generally been a dominant force in- the results of which are now clearly apparent.
I'm off to eat bacon- a real cut of pig. Bring on the next round.