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Couple of stitches to her lip, but otherwise she's fine

@warmerdamj: That's not what happened here. We were 10's of miles from the event, in an unmarked white van. Just unlucky.

@meathooker: Neko is on a flight home now to get more frames and put together what we need. We weren't comfortable asking for public financial suppoirt when we have insurance and great sponsors rallying for us. The time before race 2 makes it more complicated for sure. My other big concern is our mechanics who had their personal tool boxes stolen, which as we know is a real kick to the balls for these guys that work so hard for their riders. Their personal tool boxes are their personal assets. I will speak to Neko about a GoFundMe for Anxo and Josiah who will be keen to get back on the tools in Poland. Thank you everyone for the heartfelt messages received. Buy merch off the Frameworks website, it all helps!

Was always a dark horse threat at any DH World Cup, and a real gentleman off the bike. Thanks for all the great racing moments Jure!

It's UCI that gets the money, and it's 5K per team, just clarifying

@rmt: Don't disagree in principle but the key point here is that this one race is the single qualifier for Olympics 2024, and everyone knew this and went to get points at other races to improve their start position. Giving two riders a pass from all that effort, to get an advantageous start at a race that has Olympic quotas on the line, well, that is the argument we all have. Nothing against MVDP, it's about the UCI President's disregard of Olympic slection criteria, approved and published by IOC.

You have to take this "survey" with a lump of salt. It means nothing unless all regular participants of the DH World Cup took part, and it must divided between Elite and Junior. I have a pretty good take on rider salaries and it's not as grim as shown, especially for a sport that is not YET mainstream like skiing (which is also a prizemoney based sport like tennis and golf as opposed to a salary based sport like ours). Simple fact is that our sport is currently paid for by the bike industry, spread thin over so many disciplines, where those with the best TV ratings like Road, get better salaries as teams get bigger sponsors outside of the industry. Increased TV exposure (Red Bull was great but not where we need to be), will give teams more opportunity to bring in bigger sponsors over time, and therefore llow them to pay the riders more, and/or employ more riders. Increased prize money is also needed, no doubt, but that is secondary to salary in our sport, and always will be.

One of my fave athletes to work with in recent times, wicked sense of humor, extremely dedicated to the craft. Miss being on the road with Daveboy!

@vinay: Greg won the first World Cup he took the Honda to, by three and half seconds, and he also won the World Cup overall on the Honda. He's also only won one overall on the Santa Cruz in 15 years. Matti won 2 World Cups on a Honda, his only two. Not sure your opening comments stack up. But I agree with your final comment.

@mluk2004: Swiss TV did the camera placement and filming this weekend, not RBMH, but often there simply isn't enough cable to cover an entire race track, or cameramen. Simple budget and manpower logistics.