Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Continental Cups Argentina


ALL the rain from Pucon was snow in Chapelco so there was a record base of snow on the slopes. The first powder turns were a fact….. riding in 120cm fresh snow yeeha.I'm covering Bell with the new pow pow
The first challenges on our program were the 2 continental cups. These are two races in preparation for the world cup. There were so many world cup competitors, so many different countries this was the biggest continental cup in the history of the FIS.
The course was difficult and long, by the time you finished your legs were burning and you felt like you did a 1km sprint. After 1 hour the officials stopped the training and they were asking for the coach from The Netherlands. Bell had just started so I immediately knew something was wrong. I went down I saw and heard from other coaches that she had hit her head hard and had been out for a couple of minutes. She was going to be carried out by sled even though she refused. I tried talking to here but it was useless so I put a phone in her pocket and waved her off. In the hospital she found the phone and the result: a big concussion and a completely broken helmet. So no Bell participating on the continental cups. The first continental cup I fell in my qualifying run and because of the high amount of competitors no 2nd quali run possible. So next day next competition. Despite the weather ( witch was foggy and grey) I was able to ride a good quali run. Result 10th quali time and a spot in the finals. In the finals I got 3rd in the first heat (best 2 of 4 go to the next round) and ended up in 11th in the overall ranking!

UP NEXT THE WORLD CUP

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for writing this.