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Were the 2000 British Snowboard
Champs a Fiasco?:
Scott's Story | British Association Response | Competitor's Talk
Steve,
It seems you are another one with a big fat chip on his shoulder. I didn't
much care for your comments in boarderzone.com. It just shows a totally
unprofessional character spat out from a position of no knowledge.
You whinged about the whole thing being a joke and revolving around the
sponsors money. Where do you think £10,000 prize money comes from? It
doesn't come from thin air. Yeah, we weren't thinking about the riders
when we did that, it would have been much better to sling them out a
couple of grand and spend the rest on champagne and coke for the inner
circle snowboard mafia.
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| " As far as I'm concerned you are not welcome at any more British champs.
But perhaps your knee will see to that for everyone's sake and spare us
your shit-for-brains opinion.!"
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The pipe wasn't very good. Did you see the two back to back pipes with big
vert walls on the glacier? Or perhaps you didn't want to portray the image
that all those working at the champs actually slogged their guts out. In
the end for nothing. There was no need to call off the pipe. Riders have
to accept they undertake risk and the truly professional riders scoped the
pipe first before jumping to wrong conclusions. They deemed it not good
for the spectacle we thought we were all going to get, but fit for use.
The weather totally worked us over like no other year ever in the history
of the British champs; but you have to accept this as a possibility within
a mountain environment. Because of the weather we had to make decisions
which left us in no-win situations and with second best options. But
that's life. As it turned out the glacier was shut monday and tuesday
which meant if we'd stayed on the glacier for the pipe it would have been
cancelled completly. Did we make the right decision??
The reason the slalom started late was because we couldn't put it up the
night before because the pipe ended late because we had to move everything
off the glacier at 3200m and were not allowed to get it up the Penken
until the morning of the pipe. One thing rolled into the next. But you
never knew this...
As far as I'm concerned you are not welcome at any more British champs.
But perhaps your knee will see to that for everyone's sake and spare us
your shit-for-brains opinion.
Eddie Spearing|HAVE YOUR SAY!|
Still the fucking useless BSA President.
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