On a track that seemed to have the thumbs up from every pro racing here this weekend, the DH World Cup finals in Vallnord, Andorra delivered up a modern classic. A slight rain drizzle punctuated the afternoon’s racing, but the course rode perfectly and didn’t dampen the spirits of the watching crowd or the riders.
Myriam Nicole had more than just the pressure of the race on her shoulders when she left the start hut. With the global headquarters of her bike sponsor, Commencal, just yards from the finish line and with family and friends in the crowd, this was an important race for the French rider and she delivered with the best time of the day.
Science – The Important Nothing (Part 1) featuring Sam Taylor, Pete Buckley, Chris Morgan and guest Luka Pinto.
Science – The Important Nothing (Part 2) featuring Ben Cruickshank, Dan Beall, James Coyle, Albert Gesswein and SF friends Tony Manfre, Oudalay Philavanh, John Lindsay, Tom Brinkerhoff, Brett Nichols, Evan Collisson, Courtland Donaldson, Daniel Weinstein and Grundgy Mike.
In the third episode of the series we’ve got two of the raddest girls in snowboarding fighting it out in the funniest possible way with some track-and-field inspired challenges.
Slovakian shredder Klaudia Medlova might be one of the biggest names in Big Air and Slopestyle right now, but when it comes to popping the highest Ollie or laying out the longest carve, has she got what it takes to beat 3-time Olympian Boarder-X-turned Slopestyle rider Yuka Fujimori from Japan? And when it’s time to butter the muffin, will it be Yuka or Klaudia who comes out on top?
Take a look back at the best of the best this big-wave season at Praia do Norte.
After the big-wave season of 2015/16 – thanks to El Niño – we were honestly expecting a bit of an oceanic hangover come this winter. Well, turns out the party just kept right on raging into 2017 at Europe’s favourite mutant, Nazaré.