Andorra World Cup Finals Day

Lots of rain overnight made all the riders a little more edgy on finals day, the ruts got deeper and the turns got more blown out. Gee was the man of the day, winning qualifying and finals. It was one of the most exciting races for ages, all the Brits were going nuts to beat Sam Hill. He was slightly slower at the split but he pulled Sam in down the lower section of the course. Sam crossed the line ad looked pretty pleased with his run so it was good to see G-Unit stick one on him.



Seems like lots of the other riders in the World Cup are stepping up to Sam’s pace and actually beating him now. Athertons won 3 out of 4 races this weekend, Mens 4X, Womens DH and Mens DH. Gee skipped the 4X to concentrate on the DH so that worked out well for him this weekend.



Kovarik occupied the hot seat for about 10 riders only to be knocked out of it by a charging Sam Blenkinsop who claimed his first world cup podium.

Young Canadian talent Steve Smith took 10th place in only his 4th World Cup so that was a really good weekend from him.

Frenchman Fabien Pedemanaud also cracked the top ten with a storming 8th place. In form Camellini had a disappointing weekend crashing in both qualifying and finals.



Danny Hart took the junior race and pulled the biggest whip off one of the top jumps, nice one Danny.

Bike Radars Marc Beaumont didn’t race the finals because of his injury from Maribor is still plagueing him and giving him some pain.

Dave Wardell broke his collarbone, in his qualifying run, still that didn’t wipe the smile off the Whitby locals face as he had a beer in the medics tent!

1st Gee Atherton
2nd Sam Hill
3rd Greg Minnaar
4th Steve Peat
5th Sam Blenkinsop
6th Chris Kovarik
7th Fabien Barel
8th Fabien Pedemanaud
9th Matti Lehikonien
10th Steve Smith


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