there is waaaay too many blind spots on this track
UCI World Cup 4X Round 2 - RedBull DHi Race - Houffalize, Belgium
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good for jill
now she can say she is 2009 belgian 4x winner....stop with the olympic bronze moniker
good for jill
now she can say she is 2009 belgian 4x winner....stop with the olympic bronze moniker
dan coulda cleaned graves out in turn 1, class move.
Good for Graves
Yeah...he should be more agressive.
sure, wouldn't have been the first time Graves got slammed in turn 1
Great on Graves for another win.
Thanks to Freecaster for pushing hard to get the technical issues sorted out before the finals. The Atherton's race was incredible. Gee definitely gave it to Dan but Gee doesn't need points.
Good race.
Thanks to Freecaster for pushing hard to get the technical issues sorted out before the finals. The Atherton's race was incredible. Gee definitely gave it to Dan but Gee doesn't need points.
Good race.
did you see it on the teli?
it was airing on eurosport
could you see it on eurosport on the internet?
damnit, missed it. was at diablo.
any one got full reslults? or at least who was in final?
nothing on the UCI site yet
any one got full reslults? or at least who was in final?
nothing on the UCI site yet
got to watch it all on line, crashed twice, sound quality was ****ty.
if i remember it was
prokop
dan
roger
joost
???
and
Jill
dunno
anneke
dunno
But I have had some beers already in anticipation of SX tonight so dont quote me.
1 1 GRAVES Jared AUS19821216 YET
2 12 ATHERTON Dan GBR19820125 ANC
3 2 RINDERKNECHT Roger SUI19810504 GTB
4 3 WICHMAN Joost NED19780519 ---
5 5 SALADINI Romain FRA19861010 SRS
6 7 DELDYCKE Mickael FRA19800826 ---
7 9 ATHERTON Gee GBR19850226 ANC
8 14 TATARKOVIC Kamil CZE19850705 ---
9 6 FISCHBACH Johannes GER19880304 GHO
10 10 DERBIER Quentin FRA19850624 ---
Women
1 1 KINTNER Jill USA19811024 ---
2 4 HORAKOVA Jana CZE19830904 ---
3 2 BEERTEN Anneke NED19820707 SCT
4 3 LABOUNKOVA Romana CZE19890427 ---
5 5 BUHL Melissa USA19820125 ---
6 7 MOLCIK Anita AUT19801112 ---
7 6 RAGOT Emmeline FRA19860527 SCT
8 8 OETJEN Lucia SUI19810926 ---
9 9 MARGGRAFF Diana ECU19840319 ---
10 10 PETTERSON Joanna RSA19791124 ---
2 12 ATHERTON Dan GBR19820125 ANC
3 2 RINDERKNECHT Roger SUI19810504 GTB
4 3 WICHMAN Joost NED19780519 ---
5 5 SALADINI Romain FRA19861010 SRS
6 7 DELDYCKE Mickael FRA19800826 ---
7 9 ATHERTON Gee GBR19850226 ANC
8 14 TATARKOVIC Kamil CZE19850705 ---
9 6 FISCHBACH Johannes GER19880304 GHO
10 10 DERBIER Quentin FRA19850624 ---
Women
1 1 KINTNER Jill USA19811024 ---
2 4 HORAKOVA Jana CZE19830904 ---
3 2 BEERTEN Anneke NED19820707 SCT
4 3 LABOUNKOVA Romana CZE19890427 ---
5 5 BUHL Melissa USA19820125 ---
6 7 MOLCIK Anita AUT19801112 ---
7 6 RAGOT Emmeline FRA19860527 SCT
8 8 OETJEN Lucia SUI19810926 ---
9 9 MARGGRAFF Diana ECU19840319 ---
10 10 PETTERSON Joanna RSA19791124 ---
From Adam Craig's race report....
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Houffalize 2009
Its all been said about Houffalize, Belgium. Basically its everything a Mountain Bike XC race should be. Not a small Ardenne Region to rest on its laurels though, Houffa is trying to break into the gravity scene as well. For 2009 they quietly upgraded the Belgian Series FourCross of last year to a full-blown World Cup and added a Belgian Cup Downhill race. I was unaware of the existence of a DH track until I noticed an eight (or so) year-old BOOST it off a step down jump on a rad BMX race bike. I rode up the street to investigate and found what was obviously the finish of a racecourse. Hmmm.
It wasnt until later that evening, following a delicious Pizza dinner with the other Giant Euro team riders, that I got a bit of beta on the event. Bryn Atkinson and Jill Kitner were out for pies as well and we caught up for a few. Turns out the boy had raced the DH that day and won 3000 Euros. He kept specifying EUROS as the units of local currency, suggesting that one could buy a Tank in his native Oz with that kind of coin. Cash aside though, I asked, seriously, how was the track? Evidently Bryn had been doing practice runs with Filip Polc who was caught with his DH pants down and only had his Hardtail 4X bike. He was keeping up, even riding sections faster that Bryn on a proper DH sled. Always one to be positive, even he said that it was a bit weak, and at just over two minutes, a bit short. But hey, it is a Bicycle Race after all. There were rumors flying around on the weekend of a Houffalize World Champs bid for 2011, I guess the DH will need a bit of work, or relocation Jill handily won the slightly undersized four-up race in a solid field while Jared Graves cleaned up the 200 or so men in attendance. Maybe he and Bryn can go in on a tank with all those Euros
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I am pretty opened minded... Except to the idea of DH racing at the world level in Belgium...
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Houffalize 2009
Its all been said about Houffalize, Belgium. Basically its everything a Mountain Bike XC race should be. Not a small Ardenne Region to rest on its laurels though, Houffa is trying to break into the gravity scene as well. For 2009 they quietly upgraded the Belgian Series FourCross of last year to a full-blown World Cup and added a Belgian Cup Downhill race. I was unaware of the existence of a DH track until I noticed an eight (or so) year-old BOOST it off a step down jump on a rad BMX race bike. I rode up the street to investigate and found what was obviously the finish of a racecourse. Hmmm.
It wasnt until later that evening, following a delicious Pizza dinner with the other Giant Euro team riders, that I got a bit of beta on the event. Bryn Atkinson and Jill Kitner were out for pies as well and we caught up for a few. Turns out the boy had raced the DH that day and won 3000 Euros. He kept specifying EUROS as the units of local currency, suggesting that one could buy a Tank in his native Oz with that kind of coin. Cash aside though, I asked, seriously, how was the track? Evidently Bryn had been doing practice runs with Filip Polc who was caught with his DH pants down and only had his Hardtail 4X bike. He was keeping up, even riding sections faster that Bryn on a proper DH sled. Always one to be positive, even he said that it was a bit weak, and at just over two minutes, a bit short. But hey, it is a Bicycle Race after all. There were rumors flying around on the weekend of a Houffalize World Champs bid for 2011, I guess the DH will need a bit of work, or relocation Jill handily won the slightly undersized four-up race in a solid field while Jared Graves cleaned up the 200 or so men in attendance. Maybe he and Bryn can go in on a tank with all those Euros
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I am pretty opened minded... Except to the idea of DH racing at the world level in Belgium...