Remy Morton Loosefest Injury Update
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Australian ripper, Remy Morton, first burst onto the scene as a junior on the Polygon UR team a number of years ago. He quickly became a photographer’s favourite thanks to his chill demeanor and abilities on the bike, but he’s had to work hard to make a go of it. His European World Cup tour for 2017 looks to have been a blast if you follow him along on social media, with him hitting the World Cup races, Crankworx, and events like Loosefest.
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 At Whip-Off Worlds, Crankworx Whistler during his Junior season with Polygon UR. |
Over the past couple of years, Remy has begun to establish himself among the modern day freeriders. He is a part of the CP Gang, and when he isn’t racing he enjoys pushing his limits on large jumps, the bigger the better. His casual style on such hits has seen him receive recognition from folks like Nico Vink and the Fest Series, with invites to events like Loosefest becoming more regular.
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| Remy cruising through the upper line of the Loosefest course two weeks ago. |
Unfortunately, while riding the Loosefest line a couple of weeks ago Remy overshot the final jump, a large hip that had a number of the worlds top Fest Series riders nervous. Remy hit the earth hard, busting up his bike and himself pretty badly. Initial reports from people on the scene say that Remy was in good spirits when he came to (he was unconscious for a few minutes), but was air-lifted to a local hospital in Liege, Belgium.
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| Remy's bike after the accident. |
Current reports are that Remy sustained broken ribs, punctured both of his lungs, broke a collarbone, dislocated a hip, and there’s a small crack in his neck. Doctors are most concerned with the lungs and he has tubes draining fluid out of them in an effort to stave off infection. He was heavily sedated but plans were to bring him out of the fog over this past weekend.
Remy does have support in the way of sponsors—modest brands in Australia like Lusty Industries—but their resources are limited. He works hard while trying to make time to train throughout the off-season, so that he can chase the dream all over the globe. While Remy does have insurance that's covering a large amount of the current costs, he does have a long road to recovery ahead of him. His friends are rallying around him to try and help him out and have set up a Go Fund Me campaign for anyone that wishes to show their support in that way.
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| Remy back home early this season. |
We hope to see Remy back in action sooner than later (we need more #fakiefriday’s in our lives).
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Although he may have wished that "He was heavily seduced but ..." I suspect he was probably "...heavily sedated...".
Edit: it looks like PB already caught and fixed this.
The whole situation regarding videos/photos of this has left a bitter taste for me and I know for a lot of the other riders that were there too, mainly due to the fact there were people trying to force their way through with their GoPro's and cameras to get pictures whilst Remy was still on the ground being treated and looked after.
People should be able to look past the 'entertainment' side of things in a situation where someone is seriously injured.
Rant over.
I hope he gets well, I personally can't look at Rampage or Fest. I don't want to see anyone get mangled, and when people crash on stuff of this magnitude it gets catastrophical. Let people do what they want but don't get surprised when things waking up so vivid emitions, wake up monsters. Don't be surprised that if it get so popular, then by the law of statistics you will attract perverts. I get infuriated everytime someone enthusiastically mentions Rogatkins fall on Rampage, then standing up and riding to the finish. It makes me cringe. I don't ride for Paul, I don't find this kind of MTB doing much good, at least I don't get anything out of watching it at this stage of my life. But Well, let people do what they want.
But maybe those onsite watchers have just never seen a thing like that? And that will teach them how to react? There is a light at the end of the tunnel and that's why CONTEMPT is always a mistake. I witnessed stuff on DH comps, people athering around a crashed racer. They are getting into a trance like state, watching a 15yr old kid shake and piss himself. Some just stand, some take photos, some shout for help, and some kids laugh: he pissed himself hyhyhy. I was like that myself once when a dude hit a tree at high speed, right next to me, sound of a bag of potatoes hitting the floor. Later I learned that, He broke his arm, shoulder, some ribs and pelvis. He didn't go unconscious, grounting horribly, gasping for air. And I was standing there asking him like my 5 year old daughter asks her little brother - does it hurt? A girl stopped next to me, pushed me aside started asking him questions, another dude stopped, then rode down to get help. And I just rode down after him. I "woke up" 5 minutes later' like bell ringin - you fkng idiot!!! Why didn't you do anything?! What the Fk. I was devastated with myself. Few years later when that kid crashed I run to the medic with two other guys to get help
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The last thing we need is contempt and condemnation. Because that is yet another form of disgusting entertainment. We can be monsters and we can be angels. Condemnation takes away the opportunity for goid transformation
Same applies to news coverage of wars, famine etc. IMHO. They never show the stuff that is truly sickening so we all just chug along not giving a shit.
For me hearing Sam Reynolds at last years rampage tell the reason why he didn't ride finals, gives me tons more appreciation of gnarly stuff.
I was at the Loosefest, saw Remy jumping too high on the last jump but only hearded the sound of his tire and fork exploding on the ground from a good distance. That's (sadly) not just a "fail".
Everyone with half a brain understands the risks but there's a difference between knowing and actually realising which is where watching a video of a crash like this can make a difference, especially in the case of younger riders. Friend of mine was considering jumping the upper part of the line last year and while he didn't end up doing it anyway I'm convinced watching the video would have been enough to talk him out of it right away.
There's clips and videos of people crashing on the Loosefest jumps all over the place, in the official highlights and otherwise. You don't need a video of someone getting seriously injured, which could have even been a whole lot worse, to appreciate or understand the skill and risk these dudes are taking when riding the course. As I said before, it's not like they've left out the details in the above report...you know he crashed, you know how, you know the extent of his injuries...why do you need more?!
the sole purpouse of an sponsored rider is to entertain people, specially in the Internet age