SCOTT11 left to Canada for the oldest world cup on the circuit: Mont Sainte Anne!
Mont Sainte Anne is known for its popular track, the favorite of many riders, and for its perfect organization by Gestev. It’s also known for its very aggressive black flys that were enjoying the team as a meal yesterday.
After arriving late last night, the track had to be inspected on foot today, and it was a welcome change to the tracks they had so far. Wide open and very fast is the best description of the race course, but it doesn’t miss gnarly technical rock sections. This week is going to challenge the athletes as well as the bikes.
Training starts tomorrow. Freecaster.tv will bring the weekends racing live to your living room on www.mtbworldcup.com
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Peepshow gathered footage from a lot of the ladies in their upcoming movie to put together this edit of strictly park clips. TSG rider Silvia Mittemrüller got a bunch of great closing shots. Check it out now!
Take 180 kids, give them skateboards and take to the city streets. In Kabul it might seem like a foolhardy prospect, fraught with potential dangers. However, for the third time running on June 21, the simplicity of the idea became the beauty of it. Go Skateboarding Day is an international holiday dedicated to celebration of the sport, from Afghanistan to China to the Americas. As Skateistan students first trickled, then poured through the park gates on to the road, bursting through the attendant ranks of photographers, officials and police, nothing could have stopped them.
Finally, dusty and triumphant, the skaters stormed back into their park for a celebratory contest to the beat of Afghan dul drums. The boys’ contest was won by Mohammad Bilal Mir Bat Zai, 15, who is disabled and skates by sitting on his board with crossed legs. The girls’ contest winner, Hanifa, 14, works on the street along with her younger sister. It was clear to see the high spirits of all who participated in Go Skate Day Kabul, who, without exception, could feel proud of who they are and what they represent.
One week after Floriane Pugin’s sensational first world cup victory in Leogang, Emilie Siegenthaler took the win at the IXS European Cup on the same track.
Weather conditions were more than nasty and the track was destroyed. The men’s qualifier had to be postponed to sunday because of a storm on saturday. Emilie managed to stay focussed and on her bike and took home the win.
The winner of the 26TRIX fueled by Monster Energy at the Bikepark Leogang is called Brandon Semenuk (CAN). The qualifying took place on Friday in beautiful sunny weather. In front of a breathtaking mountain backdrop, the dirt superstars who had come to Leogang from all over the world showed tricks on an extremely high level. Just in time for the finals, the weather unfortunately turned. Even though the newly designed course was able to withstand the pouring rain relatively well, the finals had to be cancelled and in the end, the results from the qualifying decided who the winner in Leogang was. Instead, the riders showed their best moves in a spontaneous best trick contest.
Judges and riders decided together to take the qualifying results as a final ranking. Because of the bad weather forecast, the riders had been prepared for this possibility and already went full throttle in the qualifying.
The course had gone soft and muddy overnight from the rain and it was questionable whether the riders could complete their runs without risking major crashes. Fortunately, the qualifying was already carried out on such a spectacular trick level that spectators and riders did not feel cheated out of the legendary trick action expected of the contest.
It was the 2nd run that helped TSG rider Sam Pilgrim come in on 3rd place. He showed a backflip tuck no hand, 360 x-up and backflip x-up one foot. After an extremely stylish 360 tabletop, he finished his run with a backflip and 360 tailwhip.
She finally did it! Floriane Pugin took the win at the world cup in Leogang, Austria! It is her first ever world cup victory and also the first ever for SCOTT11!
Floriane, aka the flying banana, enjoyed the whole week on the track in Leogang and was the fastest in training, qualifying and finals. She was 0.5 seconds behind Rachel Atherton at the last split time, but then managed to go 3 seconds faster in the last technical part of the track, winning the race 2.5 seconds ahead of the rest.
Emilie Siegenthaler and Fabien Pedemanaud both had some mistakes in their runs, finishing in 7th and 26th place.
The world cup continues in three weeks with it’s oldest venue in Mont Sainte Anne, Canada.
SCOTT11 left to Canada for the oldest world cup on the circuit: Mont Sainte Anne!
