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This should be treated with a grain of salt. Poland is a country full of envy, there are lots of people wishing all the worst to others... This track is 100% not finished yet. The slope has a lots of potential, properly steep and techy.

Hard to force an event into paying for something that's been paid and budgeted for a year. We had this issue with redbull at rampage 2014 when Redbull told us they owned our helmet camera footage.... The event almost didn't happen over it. It was crazy, We owned the camera, we hit record, we paid for our diggers, we built the line, we risked injury to ride said line, yet RB would own the footage... I think we got to use the footage for person promotion, not sponsor use. and they "Scrapped" up a 1000 bucks each for it. But...

Weather they get what they want or not is not something that I will loose sleep over, but good on them for sticking together to prove a point.

This is what essentially tore the golf world in half. Do you get paid to show up no matter what or do you get paid to win? The difference is golf pays half the field at least something. Despite Crankworx paying out significantly more than a world cup, or any other MTB event for that matter, no one has beaten Emil in like 4 years. Then Godziek comes on the scene and is essentially a podium lock which leaves the rest of the field competing for one paycheque. Appearance fees are a slippery slope, I could see the podium contenders...

That's not really backed up by the prosecution/conviction statistics at all. e.g.: "According to figures from the French Ministry of Gender Equality, every year in France, 94,000 women report being victims of rape or attempted rape. But in 2021, barely 1 percent of the reported assaults resulted in a conviction." In the UK it's still extremely hard to get a conviction for rape. I know someone who was drugged then raped, and despite a lot of evidence there was no conviction. I can imagine in somewhere like France it would be even harder just with what the prevailing attitude towards...

Crankworx Rotorua DH practice day 1 from Ed Bull and Burnerd. Looks a little spooky out there with all the mud.

Love Danny Hart and his anti-social ways! Psyched he's riding a Fury this season. Smoother than an off-shore account transfer...

With no facts, just conjecture and hearsay............lil' bit.

This starts to be a bit of witch hunt. No one knows anything but everyone is already a judge. Maybe time to move on. As posted above, France has a strong law system and if there was a crime committed, it will be prosecuted.

The adverse publicity just from the allegation may have been enough for them to let him go. I would have thought he would've been charged by now if the police (and the prosecution service) believed there was a case, seeing as this goes all the way back to last summer. From what I've seen he hasn't been, although I don't know if laws on confidentiality are different in France to the UK. I say this because a guy I know was falsely accused of rape, was charged and named by the press within a couple of weeks of the accusation...

So...Gwin's elbow is still a maybe & still very much sucks

There are going to be no winners from this situation whatever the outcome. There are less enlightened corners of the internet where this can be 'debated'. Probably best we leave it be for now I think.

The Vojo article in French is actually a Belgian publication, it is the only article I have seen in French or English and is very much a response to the social media post and comments underneath, no additional information is provided. The French racing forums, in which a number of French team managers and media people participate, have absolutely no comment or accusation. All the accusations have been on insta or in this thread. Pretty miserable news, hope the truth officially comes out so we can move on.

US MTB racing continues to roll into prime season with the Tennessee National's 2 week multi-disciplinary mtb program kicking off this weekend with one of the US's best Endruo races. We brought the hardest working man in #USDH (at the moment) on the Gravity Co-Op's Hot Seat podcast to get the word out about the Tennessee National and chop it up about National level DH racing and some of his early days racing in the US Scene. There is only a little overlap with Spomer's amazing Inside Line interview (Gwin Racing stuff at the beginning of the show) and we...

Can you imagine the shitstorm when the pinkbicycle comment section hears about this?

the R accusation is no trivial matter. My brothers roommate had his life ruined over one (he was never charged with anything). On one hand I can see companies just not wanting to deal with any drama at all, too much of a headache, or if they are willing to cut him maybe they are aware of some serious meat to the accusation. I used to be of the opinion "lets not pass judgement until there is a conviction in a court of law" but lately I haven't had much faith in the (US) legal system.

Dam Ream Tumors, just when I thought I was out, you PULL me back in!!!

Everyone: We want privateers in elite level mtb events! Chris Ball: We have privateers at home Privateers at home: