UCI World Cup Downhill and XC Mountain Biking Men/Women

The Downhill event at Fort William was interesting. It rained a lot. Usually, that makes the racing pretty dumb, because they have to go slow and careful and awkward. And its also very dangerous.

However, Fort William is mostly hard-pack. So the course was still pretty viable. Only a couple of small mud pits. So, the racing was still fun to watch. However, it was still more dangerous and there were a lot of crashes. Including my fave, Tahnee Seagrave. She crashed really bad in the qualifiers (they don’t really show qualies anymore. so this was a news update), separating her shoulder. They seemed to think it wasn’t the worst degree of separation. But, she’ll probably miss at least two events.