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Credit to Cathro and Pinkbike for calling out the finish line carnage on the Story of the race video.

The Crocs are in sport mode, he will be fine.

To give him his full credit; Graves actually has a couple of Australian national championships in short-track XC formats plus 4X rainbow stripes, EWS overall, DH worlds bronze and made the finals in Olympic BMX.

So... In terms of triple headers, this has got to be the best venue on the UCI MTB circuit right? The downhill track is sick, the XC track nearly looked like an enduro track I saw dudes gapping rock gardens on 120/120 bikes... And the enduro looked gnarlier than the DH including a night stage (on maybe the hardest section). Not sure how many other triple headers there are, or even double headers for that matter... But wow this new venue seems to have done everything 'right'

Probably should go in the general race thread but I like Chris from DT’s idea about drop order for finals: 1st seed drops last as always. However, the top 3-5 in the overall (assuming they make finals) 2nd-6th to last. This would first, hopefully make it so some of the faster racers are always toward the end instead of having a situation where someone rides the hot seat from in the 20s. More importantly, it would help build the overall story and provide context for how these runs play into the overall points situation rather than having people in the...

For those who wonder if the cheese roll stayed on the mountain. Go figure.

Marc Beaumont has done a remarkable progression, it's night and day.

That one may be a homemade version, but a company called Radar Laboratories has been selling these under the name "Loob Toob" for some years. And yes, it's a combination syringe/brush intended to make grease application faster & cleaner than a traditional tub & brush.

Absolutely stoked for Dak. He sounded so down recently. Hopefully this will give him that confidence back.

Happy to see they (mostly) skipped out on the weird chicane before the final drop that seemed to decide races there in the past. I wonder if they built out the landing to make it so you can carry more speed into the drop safely.

What’s up with WYN?!? Is he skipping this round for coverage?

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Hottake, The new Q1 and Q2 formats are great and I much prefer it over rider protected status as its probably the most fair way to narrow the field down. Does it mean some really popular riders lose out? Yep. Does it also mean that seasonal consistency is more rewarded in WC overall standing points? Also yes. Seems odd to have both protected riders AND riders trying to qualify all in one group. It's either we lock the field to the same 30 riders for each race or everyone needs to qualify for finals. No offense to riders like Danny...

My god, Vali.... just incredible. Two Austrian women make the home crowd happy, both winning by more than 3 seconds.

MoiMoiTV and WynTV are the same thing with the two of them together the whole time. It’s great for banter but…

Incoherent. We have. More independent media than ever. Better insight from vlogs and socials than ever. A live broadcast. Insanely fast young racers, more new tracks than ever and 9-10 races per season not including Worlds. And yet. It's a "bad direction"?

Crazy to think that we now rely and look forward to athletes, teams, Vital , PB, Wyn, Moi Moi, EdBull etc. to give us our racing content as WB is doing such a poor job. I'm a super fan of DH but I stopped paying for the broadcast. It's the worst it's been and the format is terrible. Also, I feel that the qualifier day is the more intense racing day and they do nothing with it except run live timing. There are 60 riders that can make the final but if you finish outside the top 30 it means...