Today was a big day, the morning practice session was filled with juniors and women before we moved onto the men in the afternoon. As we headed up in the gondola early in the morning there was till quite A�a lot of low lying cloud but this eventually disappeared leaving behind a beautiful Norwegian summers’ day! Fortunately there were no big crashes so all the main players are still in the game.
The big jumps at the top of the course were getting suitably styled already on day 1.Tegan Molloy popping out of one of the super fast turns and looking comfortable.Tracey Hannah looked comfortable on the big jumps, check out a short video of her we took up on our Instagram now @downhill247.The Aussie juniors were looking good early on.Rachel Atherton looked super quick out on track today, she is the only GT rider with a British paint scheme as the other frames weren’t ready in time!The junior competition is going to be as tight as always, aside from the riders who have been battling all world cup season, such as overall winner Loris Vergier pictured here but also young Martin Maes who generally races enduro but has shown he is no slouch on the downhill front.The juniors weren’t afraid of putting on some style, Neil Stewart giving her some.Neither were the ‘old’ riders though, Aaron Gwin putting in for the (media) crowd.‘Merica! And proud…Myriam Nicole heads into the lower part of the course.Troy Brosnan representing the green and gold.More green and gold, this time being worn by Connor Fearon.Green and gold, plus a few other colours! Reigning world champion Greg Minnaar flying the flag for South Africa.Ratboy – Josh Bryceland sporting some pretty out there colour patterns!Bryn Atkinson going through the rocks. Bryn was looking super fast across the top section of the track, last time he raced here he was the second fastest rider to split one…Sam Hill and his gold bike, no doubt he wants some more gold come the end of the weekend.Brook MacDonald crashed today in the rocks but got up and was okay.Not the best photo as we weren’t expecting it but that white smoke looking substance in the air was this riders rear tyre blowing up as he railed one of the biggest berms on the course at full speed.Jill Kintner in the early morning sunshine and dust towards the bottom of the track.Team Lapierre were still riding together despite the fact world championships is more focused around nationalities rather than trade teams.
There’s another big day of practice tomorrow, join us again soon as we bring all that action to you!
