I debated on publicly griping about the schedule change but decided I am pissed enough to do it. We got to send Bodie to Loudenvielle and Les Gets for his first elite World Cups on a petition spot and send Kasen along with him to film and put together a couple Rooted episodes. It was all super last minute, required work to be moved around and missed and cost a shit ton of money. We were stoked to pull together some sponsor help to get those two there. 

The earliest they could get there was the originally scheduled track walk day. They land the flight, and Bodie sees that an hour earlier than he landed, they had done this last minute schedule change that pushed practice and qualifying a day earlier. They obviously tried to get to the venue, register and make it happen but the timing wasn’t possible, and they could not help him at registration. He was told to try again the next morning at 8 and he would get a short B practice session right into qualifying. The next morning he heads to registration to find it was mostly packed up and nobody was around to help. He finally talked to someone from the UCI and they told him that he should have emailed a day earlier and that they couldn’t do anything for him. For an 18 year old that has been working hard to do this and has been so excited, its obviously a massively frustrating situation. For Rooted, we have been dying to get Bodie to some World Cups to start that learning process and have some fun on those tracks. 

Obviously showing up the day of track walk is not advisable, but it is what had to happen. I have never seen a schedule change like that in DH, especially for weather forecast days in advance. For privateers that are already swimming upstream, changes like this certainly don’t help, especially when petition spots get decided late making logistics extra difficult. Thankfully this week he will be part of the traveling circus in Europe and get to Les Gets with plenty of time. 
AHK