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Fucccccc moi thats a whopper. Cool to see
"What whoops?"
Another thing about Mille, in her IG post she has written that this is her first ever proper broken bone which is pretty unbelievable for a pretty veteran competitive world cup racer...
I heard they were gonna cancel junior finals to bring Elite finals forward............................. oh no, wait, they didn't invite any juniors jk 😅
Top to bottom course walk and trackside action with Rob Warner, this'll help you get all the insights and get ready for the big show!
Rob and Eliot serving up the hype goods too:
Yeah didn’t invite any juniors except the first year junior that got 2nd last year and is competing again this year.
You're forgetting Jackson Goldstone raced as junior in 2022 when he won Wales in his first Hardline.
On the bottom left of red bull it says the CST start time is now 4PM instead of 9PM. The counter on the right is still counting down from 9PM. I think its 4PM now.
It’s still at 7pm PST
Strange, I still have 4PM CST on the red bull site.
I was joking my guy.
But slight correction anyways, Asa was a 2nd year junior in 2025 and is a first year Elite this time around. As someone else mentioned Jackson raced and won Hardline Wales in 2022. And by my math only Kade Edwards and Kaos Seagrave have also competed in Hardline as juniors. With Kaos being the first. But that was a quick rootsandrain.com investigation, so could be wrong.
Oli Clark at Wales last year.
The Mille negs are shit.
Crashes all the time?
This was her first broken bone. A clavicle. Amaury jacked his and was racing soon thereafter.
I can’t think of any of the top female DH racers from last year that haven’t spent significant time off of the bike recovering. Tahne, Miriam, Camille, Anna, Marine, Jess, etc.
Jackson skrewed himself up in ‘24, Ronan in ‘25. Don’t invite them back?
”Read the Room” is the operative phrase here.
Jack wasn’t a junior anymore in Wales as the race that year was after the World Cups at finished for the season.
Haven’t heard much on injuries,pretty happy. I remember last year they lost a ton of people in practice
Word!
Mille strikes me as being one of the most fearless riders in womens elite. A bit like Ronan's "helicopter or win" -mentality. Only a few other of the women show as much emotion when the results aren't there.
Her heart is in it all the way
Downtime doing live shows at Maydena. Aaron sounds like he’s having a great time. Should be another episode upcoming with Rob and Elliot that was taped last night.
Live timing
https://live.rawmotion.com/rbhl2026
Riders are still technically junior until the calendar year rolls over I think. But it's a pointless argument really as it's irrelevant what category people are in at Hardline 😂
Seeding results are in! Storming time by Asa, stoked to see Gwin up in fifth, and one has to wonder if Jackson is sandbagging or if he's not feeling it. Remember that unlike the World Cup, seeding carries no points and everybody who completes a top-to-bottom run and takes the start in qualifying gets to race finals at Hardline, so people could well be playing their cards close to the chest.
Tune in tomorrow to see how it all plays out!
Any word on the Brook DNF? Crash? Injury? I thought I saw him in the background walking around during one of the post-seeding interviews.
There was a Troy Brosnan Vlog when she was on Canyon where they were riding somewhere in the Alps and she had crazy speed and lines and was comfortably riding with Troy and Dante. Badass shredder!
According to the pinksite, both Brook and Jacko have posted their laydowns on Instagram. Would be nice if anyone could post in here when they get a minute.
Interesting one from Moir's quali vlog. Of the four local Aussie Wildcard riders invited, only the fastest of the 4 gets to race. So by my crappy math, that means even if they seeded in 1st-4th only one of them would still get to race. Not very Grassroots, but hey.
I also noticed that Gracey did not do the final jump in seeding, we know she's got the course on lock, and probably made a smart choice due to wind or whatever. But it kind makes a joke of the "must do all features to quali for finals" rule. The other girls should maybe ask to race and just avoid the final jump if needed? Seems to be the better way to help the girls progress? Just my 2 cent though
jackson's most recent post (does not show crashesbut discusses them)
brook's is pretty heavy
They were joking.
I don't think either Gracey or Lou hit the final jump in seeding, but I'm not sure what the issue is. If you have to hit all the features to qualify and both Lou and Gracey were able to do that, what's the problem?
I don't think there has ever been a woman who's been invited to Hardline that's complained about not having easier options or different qualifying standards. I don't think anyone else's opinion matters.
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