Congratulations to Rachel, Dan and Gee!
Welsh based Rachel, Dan and Gee Atherton of team Animal Commencal have been regarded the fastest family in gravity MTB racing for a while. This weekend they pulled off an incredible, historic hat trick win at the Valnord World Cup in Andorra with Rachel winning the Women's DH, Dan the 4X and Gee edging out Sam Hill to take the Mens DH win for total family domination.
Meanwhile another unmistakeably Welsh (though US based) rider Ffionn Griffiths won both the dual slalom and downhill events at the US open of mountain biking in Vernon New Jersey. With regular top level racing at the
www.dragondownhill.co.uk and several national events in Wales this year too, our tiny country is likely to carry on generating more super fast riders for it's size than any other for some time too!
Anyway there's more in depth race reporting on
www.bikeradar.com, with online video at
www.mtbcut.tv. Plus if you fancy finding out how fast Wales can make you, we're also expecting the latest dates for the Atherton training days on their specially built course at Coed Llandegla (
www.oneplanetadventure.com) soon.
Meantime though, congratulations to the Athertons on their triple, Fionn on her double and best of luck to them and all the other World class welsh DH riders for this season and in the future!
MBWales.com