Schladming

This weekend in Schladming in Austria the 8th and final round of the DH and 4X took place. As you all probably know Jared graves won the 4X (even though he already had the title wrapped up), although the big news is who won the DH. it was a four way battle and anyone could have recieved the overall title depending on the result.
Here are the race results:

In 3rd place: Greg Minaar. Minaar was last years World Cup Champion.

In 2nd place: Sam "blinky" Blenkinsop. Blenkinsop did take the win here last year. 

And in 1st place: The king of DH in 2009 Samuel Hill of AUS.

But what does all of this mean for the overall standings. As I said before any of the top four could have taken the title.

But who did take the title you ask. Well the Santa Cruz Syndicate team took the team title, with riders like World Champion Steve Peat, last years World Cup Champion Greg Minaar and British boy Josh Bryceland.

Anyway back to the induvidual Overall title:

Here are the results:

5th-Mick Hannah (990pts) GT

4th-Gee Atherton (1166pts) Animal/Commencal

3rd-Steve Peat (1258pts) Syndicate

2nd-Greg Minaar (1349pts) Syndicate

And the World Cup Champion is:

1st- Samuel Hill (1469pts) Monster Energy

Overall Podium

left to right: Gee Atherton, Greg Minaar, Sam Hill, Steve Peat (its a good last name) and Mick Hannah.

1st and 5th are both Aussies I knew it was gonna happen.

So the race season is done and dusted,now its back to the local scene.

Peety

Internet Coverage.

Just one extra little note. I have been hooked on the internet of late, the internet has made the spread of MTB news almost instant.

 Just today I went on to http://www.dirtmag.co.uk/ and found out the winner of the fourcross final in round eight of the world cup, the fourcross final only happened last night and I was able to see that Jared Graves of Australia had won this morning. Like wise I will be able to see who won the downhill, that is happening today, early tommorow morning. 

The internet coverage of the world cup also allows me to see the weird, crazy and quirky side of the races.

For example today I discovered that a gorrila crashed the World Cup and was posing for photos. Although I suspect it was merely a man in a gorrila suit, but the interenet just said gorrila so it must be true, right? 

Thats all Folks.

Peety