Mickey, well said.
I believe 4x can be done, but not here(America) yet. It also needs some tweeks to be done else where better. Courses really need to be ridden by the top level riders before they come to the top level. That way issues can be seen and fixed. I feel a lot of the issues with course design is that there just is not enough effort put into testing, riding, and racing the track prior to it being a world cup. World Cups are suppose to be the top tier form of racing for that discipline and i think there needs to be more prerace effort into the courses. I'm not saying Phil Saxena is doing a horrible job, he's doing the best he can without there being a hand full of elite racers riding and practicing the course making them able to critique the courses so they can be fine tuned. That being said and due to my lack of knowledge, do 4x events have to have a test event like dh does or no? if no is the case, maybe it should happen so there can be feedback put into the courses by pros so that they can be fixed to make for ultimate racing come UCI event.
I believe 4x can be done, but not here(America) yet. It also needs some tweeks to be done else where better. Courses really need to be ridden by the top level riders before they come to the top level. That way issues can be seen and fixed. I feel a lot of the issues with course design is that there just is not enough effort put into testing, riding, and racing the track prior to it being a world cup. World Cups are suppose to be the top tier form of racing for that discipline and i think there needs to be more prerace effort into the courses. I'm not saying Phil Saxena is doing a horrible job, he's doing the best he can without there being a hand full of elite racers riding and practicing the course making them able to critique the courses so they can be fine tuned. That being said and due to my lack of knowledge, do 4x events have to have a test event like dh does or no? if no is the case, maybe it should happen so there can be feedback put into the courses by pros so that they can be fixed to make for ultimate racing come UCI event.
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