(Bodhi Kuhn had to rely on Protected status, but his time was still 3 seconds faster than Vali's.) Weird fact: Every Junior male who qualified on time had a qualifying run at least 10 seconds faster than Vali Holl's time. The Junior women finals would only take about 20 to 25 minutes to complete. The other option would have been to just run the Junior finals after the Elite men's final if it wasn't too late in the afternoon and if weather permitted. There were only 36 Junior riders that would be racing in the finals (26 men, 10 women) and one option was to push the Elite final back an hour and a half or so and run the Junior finals between the Elite semis and the finals. įrom a practical standpoint, it seems to me it would have made sense to just postpone the race until the next day, and try to fit it into the Sunday schedule even if it meant eliminating the semi-final Elite race.īut maybe they wouldn't have had to cancel the semi-final. When a kid's well-being is at stake, and the buying public wants to drool over the videos, where's the compromise? Put the racers on a tire that works, let 'em kick out the race with no penalty, have everybody sign a hold-harmless agreement - including mommy & daddy for those who are legally under-age - and run the dang race. ![]() And for each of us individually, that little fact is all over the board. Are we all really all that f'ing brand loyal with tires?! I change brands when I find another brand's tire that works better. Ohhhhhhh, the sponsor brands would weep & moan & point fingers & have their little hissy-fits if THEIR tire wasn't picked. Or maybe even a specific brand & model of mud tire. For example - for a course like this, UCI (or whateverinahell controlling body) could require that a homologated mud tire must be used. Is this an option in UCI-land? If not., copuld it be? Another possibility is to have designate a control tire, class of tire for these extreme circumstances. If you didn't like your results or missed a race for any reason - you could toss those out of the mix & like even the racers who made every race - have their overall position based on the the best number of (minus 2) races m in the series. And one feature in every race series was that every racer was given one or two "throw-away" races. Given all that mumbo jumbo - and not knowing the rules at all - I wonder if there may be systems put in place to avoid this in future years. But understanding that - what's right for the group. Given the circumstances as they were - I think UCI did the right thing.
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