Tahnee Seagrave announced on social media today that she has been involved in a serious crash that resulted in a dislocated ankle, broken tibia and fibula and ligament tears. At the moment she is expecting to be out for around three months although at this early stage nothing is 100% certain.
Seagrave told Pinkbike; "I was out with all my mates just having a fun dirt jump session after a heavy week of training. Landed one slightly off and simply put my foot out... Not much info at the moment as waiting for the swelling to go down so we can operate. It’s a pretty big injury having dislocated my ankle and breaking my Tib and fib. I see the surgeon on Monday for more scans to check the state of my ligaments which at the moment we are guessing have a full rupture..."
| No words could ever describe how I feel right now... Dislocated ankle, broken Tib & Fib, ligament tears & all the rest... It’s part of the game and sometimes you get dealt with some pretty shitty cards. Sometimes more than once or twice...But good players don’t need good cards.— Tahnee Seagrave - Instagram |
We're wishing Tahnee all the best with her recovery and hope to see her back on the bike soon.
the claws are out!
I'm not suggesting they should live like monks in the off-season, however if Downhill racing is your profession and your priority, you should exercise restraint and limit risk in other forms of sport when leading up to season open.
Kaos, Kade - lose those silly colors IMMEDIATELY I say and go please the sponsors! Be more serious, what is this?!!!
And professional football players shouldn't be running and boxers shouldn't do any sparring, got it. Sounds absolutely logical to me!
BTW, you guys better don't go into the kitchen, after all most accidents happen there and what would your employers say if they hear you we're prepping food when you lost your finger?! They'd be furious at such a blatant display of irresponsibility!
Yet, it's during training that a legionnaire suffers. She will come back stronger and will learn her lesson.
drops the mic
Upside, if they bolt her back together, the recovery can be pretty quick.. I was pedaling about 2 months after my tib/fib break...
Also quite sure you losers can’t jump for sht.
# WakoJacko
and watch a bunch of classic films
Get well Tahnee and please don’t stop having fun. Screw these morons. You and Myriammake it worth watching!
At the end of the day, it's all about selling bikes.
It doesn't matter how cool you are, you're not racing , bikes aren't selling.
Got it. Sounds like a fun life
Just for your own wisdom, I have run a local team here, got a few sponsors, bought DH bikes and equipment from my own pocket and spent literally my last bucks to get some young guns racing. I am sure you must know better, thanks for your precious advice!
Travis Pastrana is a perfect example, up and coming moto prodigy, was out free riding with buddies and crashed which more or less ended his racing career. They called it the million dollar jump, it's how much it ended up costing him since his contract got cancelled.
The current moto guys are not allowed to publically freeride or have video.spots, contractually. They also have very robust insurance plans, which dont pay if your out free riding and get hurt. Non of the top guys freeride like they used too, it's on a track practicing or racing.
I hope she has a speedy recovery, human to human. But none of know what sort of contract she had but I see both sides of the issue....
Did you even read it?
Because if I was a Team manager of a DH Team and my employee wouldn’t be able to dirt jump I’d do my best to send them dirt jumping. If riding partners included Veronique Sandler and Kade Edwards, I could not be happier.
Also, we don’t know what is in her contract but I am not the one insinuating that a hurt athlete reading this not only got hurt out of own recklessness doing something unrelated to her job.
So no, it’s not that arbitrary. I am on the right side mate, it is mot me who is potentially an a*shole here.
Yes I am triggered much. This is Pinkbike it used to be gravity riding related site. Bashing someone for doing Dirt Jumping is simply breaking the rules.
So... do you even jump bro? Can you send a pancake?
Do I jump? My username says it all...
Oh my god, you're slow. (mentally probably too)
I know 13 year olds that can go faster.
Just because of that, i forgive your hateful comments.
What’s going on peeps?!
Jacko, please!
Sending healing vibes.
Didn't Manon Carpenter quit DH because the fear and the pressures of maintaining max level?
Anyway, that being said, the sport of DH is a better place with Tahnee in it, this is a friggin bummer-but, this will make the middle/end of season as awesome as last year with her return.
You should get in touch with Loic and tell him he's doing it all wrong. I'm sure he'd appreciate advice from an expert.
www.instagram.com/p/B8ijxAGAzNW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Give Michael Bias a follow, he's technique is asbolutely beautiful and he posts a lot of good videos showing different techniques.
www.instagram.com/p/B7z6WvcgPFN
This is an absolutely manic boost:
www.instagram.com/p/BdS4RgTHkZk
Poor love
Heel up well Tahnée
Poor timing and a bad break (semi pun intended) Tahnee, hope you heal both quickly and properly.
personally I think she needs to be out there getting max bike time to catch up from her shoulder injury.
Hope she is back sooner rather than later.
This isn’t really a good comparison to what happened to Tahnee, as NHL players practice pretty much everything but hard body checking, but they do go hard outside of games, but specifically to the game.
She was riding her bike, so I’d say that wouldn’t be like a possible term of her contract that might keep her from skiing.
"Take a pic or it didnt happen"? Likes? Were you paid for the pic? I truly dont understand.
I wish her a quick recovery.
Get your own life!
Healing vibes to a cool chick who rips.