There are so many people who make World Cup DH racing what it is. The hardest part of this project was not being able to get shots of everyone. There are, unfortunately, a ton of people I missed for one reason or another. My apologies to everyone I left out--members of the UCI, riders, photographers, videographers, course marshals, and volunteers. My focus was getting as many as I could, but I quite obviously left a ton of people out. But these are the last of the portraits I did manage to get. Part three of three...
A lot of people ask why I'm so adamantly 'feminist' (which I'm not really, I just believe in equality), but those folks who wonder have never seen the bullshit politics in athletics, in government or in business that clearly discriminate against chicks just for being born with a different genetic code. Having seen and heard this shit more than once inside of the MTB industry, it gets old in a real f*cking hurry. These teams are part of the problem, as are the companies who can't simply FATHOM having a woman actually be valued for something more than surface content or marketing purposes. What the UCI has even grasped by now (which is amazing that they're so progressive) is that us ladies do have value and that we bring our own personal strengths and weaknesses to the sport as PEOPLE first, and women second -- if Trek and Specialized and Santa Cruz and the other lady-less teams would start valuing people for their individual contributions instead of what gender their genitals happen to make them, our sport would change rapidly, and with it, the entire sporting world.
Excellent work. So incredible.
I would be happy seeing someone else as Sam's mechanic..Just for a change ..Anyway, that's not the point.
Any replies to this wont be answered.this is just my opinion and I am not the only one sharing and thinking this!
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In fact checking your profile, (stalker mode) I can see you only other pinkbike comment is complaining about a chainreaction on the hunt episode for not featuring anything about his "awesome" 2013 mechanic, you clearly have an issue with Sam's choice of help