Val d'Isere Day 3 in Photos - UCI World Cup 2012

 nah, stevie smith or hill

 You're not serious are you? This is soooo worthy of a world cup. This is easily one of the most challenging courses they've had to ride in a long while. It's so raw and natural and rugged, this is about as pure DH as you can get. I much prefer this to some of the more "buffed" tracks we've gotten. This track is a monster.

 I like how most of it is single track with the exception of a few spots.


Gwin (even w/ a F'd up hand)
Hill
Gee
Cole
Bryceland

 this track is unreal. More tracks should be this nutty! the bikes and the riders can definetly handle more of a technical challenge.

 you can tell its one of the most challenging tracks based on the stuff that happened in qualis and practice, that wouldnt happen if the track was a piece of cake

 It's mostly natural and goat paths besides the building drops and stuff and little hits. You obviously don't realize that the terrain changes where ever you go In the world. So it's not thrown together at all. Please think about something before saying it next time.

 We all know that terrain changes from course to course but some of the sections literally look like a couple of guys grabbed some hoes and cut in a path a couple of days before the riders arrived.ijust think that world cup racers deserve better.

 @BikerDude000
Why would they build a track in a place where they can't even have media and spectators down most of the track? As Greg Minnaar said (although I do hate his constant complaining) the area is surrounded with beautiful mountains and they had the terrain to build the perfect downhill track, but instead they chose to build it down some crappy goat track using buildings as obstacles?? makes no sense. Please get some information on the subject before saying something next time.

 This is the most technically challenging track they've had all season, hell, in years. And stop attempting to pass off your opinion as fact.

 Don't be dumb. You can see the start track from the bottom of the friggen MOUNTAIN (thats what its on if you since you weren't pay attention) it doesn't get much better for spectators or media than that not to mention that this track does not suit minnaars riding style. The off camber sections On loose rock is incredibly hard to negotiate in dry and even more so in wet, the track is basically loose roughy rock all the way down, those goat trails would make you second guess walking down them. It's a steep gnarly track that will really test a riders ability to control their bikes. Thank you for being a complete idiot. get you facts straight before you come back with weak bullshit like that.

 um sorry i'm a bit late, but didnt you hear that they wernt allowing spectators to watch from the sidelines down most of the track? thats what i meant. and also sure it was technically hard track but as i have already said quoting Minnaar that the surrounding mountains were amazing and they could have built an even more amazing track that could actually allow spectators