May 3, 2010
By Margus Riga
Day three of Sea Otter was upon us like a brick dropped from a ten story building. The dual slalom was in full effect, as were the hangovers from the Follow Me premiere after-party.
Many pics to tell the story inside,
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| I did. Now look at me. Thanks for the drinks and the sick-ass flick boys. Especially Matt Hunter for sending that gap to wallride. Sickest move of all time, next to Darren Berrecloth's Gobi China ski lines. |
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| This is where I woke up. Ok, must make my way to the Dual something or rather. |
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| Right this way sir. |
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| Wait a minute. Think I went to far. |
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| Alright, back on track. Matti Lehikoinen follow me if you can cam. |
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Chris Boice rounding the first turn. A nice dropping right-hander to right-hand berm.
If you didn't suck it up, you just went over and missed the berm and rode right into me.
Thankfully only one dude did that. |
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| Chris Van Dine, working the woops. |
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| I think I had an accident where he was lying. I didn't tell him. |
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| Chris Kovarik, scrubbing that shit clean. |
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| Mick Hannah, it's not on zis side, and it's not on zat side, but right in ze middle. |
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| Why does she have her mouth open? |
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| Oh I know why, it's Cedric. |
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| And it's party time once again. |
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| No, she didn't. |
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| With morning practice over, it was time for an afternoon respite. |
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| ...to the women's Short Track Cross Country! |
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| Emily Batty, the girl next door in your dreams. |
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| Judy Freeman, look the F&%$ out! |
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| Georgia Gould, killing it for the win. |
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| Back at the Dual Slalom course shit was heating up. |
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| Lopes looking for the elusive winning line. |
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| Rachel Atherton and Brendan Fairclough. Mmmmmm. |
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| Time to send it. |
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| Jared Graves. Easily the best looking helmet/goggle/shirt combo. |
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| Minaar and Gracia, pinning it. |
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| Manicured madness. |
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| Rachel Atherton, all by herself. Where's your friend? Oh, you dropped her back home to mommy. |
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| Jill Kintner, living up to her plate number. |
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| Rachel Atherton...that's hot. |
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| What's up team BC? Did you bring me a beer or what? |
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| Mick Hannah, almost faster than 1/3200 of a second at F5. Camera talk for fast as shit. |
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| John Gibson's 300mm pistol of death. |
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| After the famously shot to shit berm, riders popped out of it with more ooomph than your mom. |
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| Jared Graves, acting all famous on the famous berm. |
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| After each heat the racers got shuttled back up by the hay wagon. |
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| The fans. |
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| The Boobs. |
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| The berms. |
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| The winners, Mick Hannah and Aaron Gwin, battling for the #1 spot. |
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| Pedal, pedal, PEDAL!!! |
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| Hannah takes the win. |
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| Gwin takes the grin. |
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| The course. |
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| On to the next event: Pro DH. |
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| To make the racers go faster, they stuck the track alongside a gun range, and asked the shooters to aim their guns at anyone looking slow. USA A OK. |
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| The barbwire booby traps were also set for anyone going off course. |
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| Booby trap check. Check. Let's roll. |
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| Dude, get off the phone and get to the start gate. You'll miss your start time. |
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| Number plate? Name? Cleared to send it. |
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| After this air, it was full-on high speed pedaling to the finish. |
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| Same spot, different angle. Curtis Robinson, always managing to swing a little style with his speed. |
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| Jean Sebastion Therrain, squeezing it through. |
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| Tim Krentz, coming at me way too fast. |
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| Holy shit. |
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| Nearing the last bunch of riders, the crowds picked it up a notch. |
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| Aaron Gwin, second in DS and now second in DH. Nice work budday. The eyes say it all. |
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| Joey Schuler, another Yeti rider. Looks like Yeti's got their shit straight this year. |
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| Must...keep...my...eyes on the race. Aaaah whatever. |
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| Go Peaty! Thanks for the flash Hylands!!! |
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| Even the lizards wanted to check the final riders. |
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| Gracia. |
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| Greg Minaar. |
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In the end it was Jared Graves scooping the victory. What's in the water in Colorado?
I think it was the winningest state. Maybe it's the altitude. |
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| American |
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| Classic. Kyle Straight. Next it's time to close shit up with the Aptos Post Office Jam. |
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Stay tuned for part four in the coming days!
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