Bad luck in Vancouver

Vancouver, the city that will host the Olympic Winter Games one year from now. Vancouver is one of the most beautiful cities we have been in the world. The city, people and the surroundings are just amaizing. We’re staying in a nice hotel in downtown Vancouver and rented a car. First we made a daytrip to Whistler and we rode the new Peak2Peak gondola, the highest gondola in the world.
The world cup course was long, had big jumps and started out with Wu-tangs. We only had 2 hours of training. Britt who’s riding with a torn meniscus (thanx 2 Bad Gastein) had a worst case scenario. The torn part got stuck in her joint so she couldn’t move until Jorik (our physio) managed to get it out. Bell actually had a pretty nice training.
Qualifying day: Britt’s knee was way to sore to start this extreme course
Bell had a good run until the end…A very big crash and a hell of lot of pain.
Bell was taken to the hospital with a broken upper arm and a broken wrist so far we could tell. In the hospital she got checked out for other injuries and we transferred her to a private practice where a very nice doctor put her arm back together with plates and screws. Now she is back in the hotel and recovering from all the drugs they had to pump into her. But she is already talking about getting better and looking forward to the next season.

Thanx for all the support we are getting, we will keep you informed.

Dutch Championships Laax

After an awesome freeride trip in Klosters it was time for the Dutch Championships in Laax. Britt and Frank would arrive on Tuesday so it was up to Bell to be represent at the beach styled opening party in the Casa Veglia…
Wednesday was still a day of rest for Britt while Bell was charging the half pipe. With a 3 rd place in the FIS contest is was a good day.
The next day is was big air day but after the big crash last year Bell choose not to participate. Frank entered her in the pgs…It was pretty funny, Bell’s first slalom contest. Of course she waxed her board like your suppose to. With no experience and hard boots she came in 3rd! Nice job…only 3 girls competing .
De discipline we wanted to win was up next. Frank (with the help of Laax) did an awesome job shaping a nice little sbx course. For the first time it was actually a sbx course instead of a banked slalom. This resulted in big smiles on everybody’s faces. All the freestyle and slalom riders joined in to race for this Dutch title. With no wind and a blue sky the race started. One qualification run and then finals. Bell qualified first and Britt second. We shared the heat with Anne Fleur (yeah!) and Sonja. Bell won the race and Britt fell and became 4th. The Dutch title changed owner this year but stayed in the family. Now off to the ISPO and on Friday we’re already off to an Olympic test event in Vancouver.