Mont Sainte Anne World Cup Downhill Finals

Only Gwin's shadow can claim to know the feeling of being ahead of him. -Hoshi Yoshida

Bontrager's new, winning tires...the G5. -Sven Martin

Fastest in the quali, fastest in all splits, and winning by 1.8 seconds over Myriam Nicole. -Hoshi Yoshida

Greg Minnaar also had a loose run, fast and wild by his standards but he ran wide on a fast long left-hander into the woods. Sometimes that's all it takes to slow your momentum all the way through the next section. -Sven Martin

You might be wondering if Dany left his helmet on while speaking this audio. Well it sounds pretty much the same. -Hoshi Yoshida

Gee gets strapped up by Dan Brown this morning before practise. He was happy that he was able to still podium after this week, but he is bugged that he wasn't able to make a proper effort. -Sven Martin

Is it really necessary to have any words here. Rather just stare at the fine form of Sam Hill. -Sven Martin

Brook was back on fine form again today, not matching his podium performance here last year but pretty damn close. 0.3 seconds off among a load of Kiwi friends. -Sven Martin

Martin Whiteley tries to answer the impossible... -Sven Martin

Sam Blenkinsop must feel like a skydiver dropping out of the helicopter. -Hoshi Yoshida

We're wishing you all the best, Neko! -Sven Martin

Lycra Legends and their rainbows. -Sven Martin

Myriam Nicole (clipped-in this time) roosting it. She and others like Mick Hannah almost got claimed by the bombhole you see in the next picture. -Hoshi Yoshida

Don't hit the hole! -Hoshi Yoshida

Weekend carnage: Flats, busted chains and guides (Ragot), Danny's race run dent, Gee's knee. -Sven Martin

Matti crashed in the former 4X rock garden. Luck run out. -Hoshi Yoshida

Andrew Neethling headed up for his final run. Quite intimidating when you pass over some scary fast sections you have to hit flat out. By the way, Needles hit them faster than anyone. 1st place in speed trap with a 62kph! -Sven Martin

Brendan Fairclough pushing his bike in a manual through the finish line. He lost his chain somewhere on the way down. Mick Hannah also with no chain pipped him by 1/1000th of a sec. -Hoshi Yoshida

Chris Kovarik Entertainment LLC. He turned the yard of the hotel into a massive cutty rut! FORE!!! -Hoshi Yoshida

Polish Pete is double-checking Gee's rear end suspension for his high-speed assault up ahead. It worked. -Hoshi Yoshida

This car is on its last mission. Gettin' ready to bring the NZ boys from MSA to Windham. This car will be sold at Windham, if it isn't impounded at the border, that is. -Hoshi Yoshida

The view from beyond the ocean of clouds gave the impression of flying. -Hoshi Yoshida

The noise of his loose tire might have been a bit annoying but that didn't keep Nick Beer from giving it his all to the bottom. -Hoshi Yoshida

Scott 11's Emilie Sigenthaler finished fourth today, backing up the flying banana (Pugin) who did not start due to a crash. -Sven Martin

These two girls did Canada proud. First podium for Micayla Gatto, followed by Casey Brown in sixth. -Sven Martin

Steve Smith pushed hard today for the fans and for himself, but it just wasn't to be. It was a weird week for him, next week he can reset and try again. -Sven Martin

Brendan and Danny both suffer from having balls this big. It must be really hard to ride bikes like they do. They are also having a bit of an on-going Twitter war right now. -Sven Martin

Emmeline Ragot was looking good in her run until she hit something that destroyed her guide, chain and chainring. She had to coast to the finish line and settle for third today. Many others suffered the same fate, are guides too light? What happened to big burly bash guards of days gone by? -Sven Martin

Greg Minnaar prefers to hang out with the media guys upstairs than the journalists downstairs in the press conference area. -Hiroyuki Nakagawa

Who's Aaron Gwin, they asked me... -Sven Martin

Kiwi block party at Lapierre. -Sven Martin

Richie Rude, top junior today and ready to be going back home to the U.S.-Sven Martin

Girls fight club. -Hoshi Yoshida

Boys fight club. -Sven Martin

Gwinhog Day for the USA in MSA...See you in New York in just a few short days! -Sven Martin