Olympic Recap

So BMX is over and America didn't win. 2nd and 3rd place went to Mike Day and Donny Robinson respectively with a Latvian rider taking first. Jill Kitner came in 3rd in the women's class while mountain bike legend Anne Caroline Chausson took the win. It is good to know the the mens silver medalist can be found doing stuff like this when not weight training.
Thats right,Mike Day shreds parks and trails. Of course.

I debated as to whether I should post this next link at all, because this article is the most frustrating thing I have read in a while, but I decided I should anyway. I invite everyone to make comments on the article asking Fox News to fire this guy. what an idiot. http://www.foxsports.com.au/beijing_olympics/story/0,8659,24216981-5014104,00.html

JOEY BRADFORD!! I guess he didnt make the olympics but I bet he came close. This guy definitely comes to the trails and speedjumps the hell out of everything. Local boy!

And just wanted to say that as cool as the olympic track is, the downhill bmx course at woodward west was insane. Mostly overgrown now, but if you walk it you would think that someone who was 12 feet tall built gnarly trailsn for himself. You can see from this video that it is more trails than track, look at some of those lips! poppy. You can tell Gilly, Dave King and Nate Wessel had a hand in that beast


OH, also I remember recently hearing that semi-ex-bmxer mtb superstar Darren Berrecloth has a pretty interesting event in the works for an upcoming Mountain bike contest. The idea was a dual slalom race with a few large trick jumps placed throughout the course and a booter at the end. The scoring would be similar to moguls skiing were you time can be influenced by how well you do on the jumps. Bmx probably doesn't need a new event because Red Bull has gotten it perfect with Empire of Dirt but I think it might be interesting to see Brian Foster and others race down a perfect course and then be judged on a rhythm section. who knows. Like a trails sprint race mixed with a dirt comp.
sidenote: put together a different bike and loving it. going to the eastbay for a few days. hopefully a related update. And our friend Albert from Spain, who has been in Santa Cruz for weeks now may have some pictures from our Watsonville session the other day, including one of Dusty trying to pass me in a section.