Hear me out: next year before they rush the finish line corral, let's give the crowd real chainsaws with bars and chains and see what happens. INSTANT CLASSIC. One for the history books.
Hear me out: next year before they rush the finish line corral, let's give the crowd real chainsaws with bars and chains and see what happens...
Hear me out: next year before they rush the finish line corral, let's give the crowd real chainsaws with bars and chains and see what happens. INSTANT CLASSIC. One for the history books.
re: rushing the finish, in a chat of videographers at the race, filmer, TJ Smith is going to get x-rays on his leg as he was...
re: rushing the finish, in a chat of videographers at the race, filmer, TJ Smith is going to get x-rays on his leg as he was smushed in the melee near max at the end and it was reported that a girl in the crowd was removed w/ a bone sticking out of her arm (compound fracture). perfect storm of racing, fans, alcohol and narrow spaces. lawlor said he was near a barrier before the end of the race and realized it was a bad idea and got away from it. it was leaning in at 45 degrees once everyone started rushing. the force/pressure down there was significant.
Yeah, well, my kids were in the front line opposite side of the main stampede, just told them, let the crazy guys run first and the you walk down, you can be buried in the grass in a second.. so, I think the crowd rushing to the finish area, in a way is done OK-ish respecting the race and if you want to gamble it rushing down, you know what you are gettin in ...its common sense.. and this does not need to be policed too much... lots of people doing stupid things and getting carried out by paramedics while going down laong the track.. so its "normal" wild with fans and alcohol...imho...I just dont get all the people doing all the mud bathing and shouting, sliding and backflipping for the crowd when the top 10 are going down, completely disconnected from the race.. but Im not 15-20 and drunk, so it's fine.
Riders impeded by crashed riders should get a second run.changing the core dna of the sport and using ‘professionalism’ to cover it will kill the sport...
Riders impeded by crashed riders should get a second run.
changing the core dna of the sport and using ‘professionalism’ to cover it will kill the sport so fast. It is not a televised event people are allowed to attend, it’s a mountainbike race, in the real world, and the environment will reflect that.
some people just did not wanna to again in Q2... it was that bad...
That’s the point, no one is making them, it’s sport. The beauty of that is what produces the finals racing, which was excellent.
I am all for courses being safe, it’s critical, but the rest, even the racing, you have to leave to chance and design. Trying to bake out all of the variability, chance, weather, in order to have predictability just homogenises things.
It’s why it’s so hard to give a shit about tennis.
He had no chafe to make it out of corral. There were people already past barriers in front of him.
The only solution I see is a legit moat around corral drawbridge at the finish line 😂😂
Hear me out: next year before they rush the finish line corral, let's give the crowd real chainsaws with bars and chains and see what happens. INSTANT CLASSIC. One for the history books.
battle of waterloo, part two (electric boogaloo)
well, more so premix rather than electric...
Yeah, well, my kids were in the front line opposite side of the main stampede, just told them, let the crazy guys run first and the you walk down, you can be buried in the grass in a second.. so, I think the crowd rushing to the finish area, in a way is done OK-ish respecting the race and if you want to gamble it rushing down, you know what you are gettin in ...its common sense.. and this does not need to be policed too much... lots of people doing stupid things and getting carried out by paramedics while going down laong the track.. so its "normal" wild with fans and alcohol...imho...I just dont get all the people doing all the mud bathing and shouting, sliding and backflipping for the crowd when the top 10 are going down, completely disconnected from the race.. but Im not 15-20 and drunk, so it's fine.
Nothing beats this race.
some people just did not wanna to again in Q2... it was that bad...
That’s the point, no one is making them, it’s sport. The beauty of that is what produces the finals racing, which was excellent.
I am all for courses being safe, it’s critical, but the rest, even the racing, you have to leave to chance and design. Trying to bake out all of the variability, chance, weather, in order to have predictability just homogenises things.
It’s why it’s so hard to give a shit about tennis.
Shes been one of my favorites on the mic for a while now.
Here's the full replay of the junior men's race, just to complete my earlier posts:
POV - you win Les Gets as the last man to drop:
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