There's A New Generation Coming For The Top Spot | Bielsko-Biala Story of The Race With Ben Cathro 

Boulder bashers 😂🤙

Fake brands just waiting for a spot of graphic design!

Neko was so lucky to pick up Asa for his team! He's gonna be a superstar

Asa is clearly a cut above the rest. Bring it on, him yapping at goldstones (when fit) and Bruni’s heels, dunne’s too

I’ve seen him race multiple races in person in the USA and it’s truly wild what a kid as young as him can do on a bike. Even before I knew who he was I saw him ride and he was just different than anyone else in the pro class.

Yeah definitely not great. Unfortunately, the problem will only get worse and worse 😕

Yeah it's so bad now, hate it

Glaring omission 😮 Not unexpectedly though. He is definitely out to back up that snowshoe win. He just needs the weather gods to be kinder to him.

I was watching live at that corner where Vali crashed - Oisin totally sent it, perfectly doubling into it. iirc he remained the fastest throughout the 1st sector.

I sense they're coming, but there's a lot required - on B Practice Gwin was talking about getting Windrock a DHI round and went through some of the big ticket items a venue needs in place to host, as it's been for years, but was interesting. Poland seemed to land really well and will hopefully help to recruit others.

I havnt heard a single rider say "i really love Semis, theyre the best idea UCI has ever had, they should add more of em" lol lol.. Drop the Semis, & there would be scope for another 3 new races atleast.. Europe has 6 currently, they can afford to loose 2, considering how small Europe actually is in distance.. then they could add another 2 to North America, MSA + 2 more, alternating between US & CAN every year with who gets 2.. then the extra 3 races from sacrificing the Semis that nobody wants can alternate between Aus/NZ one year, South America the next.. Queenstown is absolutely Prime for a UCI Downhill round, with the scene, the terrain, the tracks, & the infrastructure all just there, with a semi-international airport (daily flights from Aus) within an hour of the tracks of both potential venues. Christchurch has the same, just 30 mins from the runway of a true international airport, has a high speed chairlift access bikepark with 500m descent. If it could manage to avoid fires dammit, it could hold a UCI too.. Maydena in Tassie proved its ability with Hardline, Threadbo in NSW puts it on for Cannonball.. South America has loads of places that could hold an event.. No semis, more races, more locations for the "World" Cup would turn it into a true WORLD Cup.. And then it would be a truely sustainably growing sport, vs the current UCI model which guarantees it being a bell-shaped curve that may be peaking as less people can watch it, & less places hosting it means an innevitable drop in interest even as the skill level rises in leaps and bounds..

@@danharvey3096 I don’t like semis and they will be going away, everyone has said they’re a transition play, but taking them away will do nothing to open up new venues, if you took them away today it would still be a three day weekend and there would be upwards of 350 riders. Maydena isn’t anywhere near close to being a World Cup venue - off the top of my head, Aaron said they need to accommodate around 125 event people, outside of the teams and fans, and there are specific shuttle requirements that would mean, in his case, adding a chairlift to Windrock (that may be the requirement). Maydena is the perfect argument for a far smaller field of riders, that opens up a whole load of host of alternative venues. But I know the team from Tasmania Hardline is looking at getting a World Cup proposal in - another venue, I believe (I listen to a lot of downhill podcasts!). Improved rider safety brings another overhead. Also, then venues need to be putting themselves forward, and often need funding / grants from the local government (which is the same in most niche sports), . There are few people privy to what’s happening behind the scenes and the rest of us are in the dark, a lot of the team managers and people close to the UCI team keep talking about a 5 year plan - personally I think there will be more UCI accredited regional series, like the new Monster US one, then semis as they are will go and the number of riders will reduce and the sport will go more and more global again. What we see as punters is the surface of it all and nothing is straightforward at the scale of the world cups, but while we differ on the way to get there I am 100% with you, I want to be seeing racing in Australia and New Zealand, Japan, and South America, and want 10+ rounds a year. I’m trying to keep the faith it’ll happen. Finally, if you've not listened to it already, I think you'd enjoy Simon French on D&Ms with Dean and Beyond the Tape where they talk about this sort of thing.

It works for many things.. DH comment sections, mainstream narratives about events, people & "conspiracies" etc.. The answer to both though is context, & from where you find "the truth", if it comes from either end of a spectrum its ultimately a psyop of sorts.. The truth about litterally everything, from uninformed judgements of DH tracks in comment sections, to arguments between partners or countries, to "conspiracies", to "political tribalism" in a corporate owned political system, is generally always somewhere in the middle.. Context is everything, wether that be context amongst a broad range of factors on race day, or a broad range of benefiting interests from an event, policy or group.. Use your imagination for all the many things that could apply to..