U.s.a. Tdn Team

[copemech]

I wonder where them girls came from that beat the USA team by a massive 3 marks. oui, oui, oui, Aussie.

We could pit them against your Mens team!

[no jive]

Another e-mail from USA TDN Kip Webb

Hello everybody

Writing from Atlanta where Cody & I missed our flight because the plane

was late out of Paris, Oh well. Anyway, could not get internet to hook

up yesterday after the event. You may know by now that we got 7th

place slipping one position. But with what took place, having to have 2

of our good riders have to drop out, I feel we held our ground. We were

only a few points behind the Swedes, so I am pretty confidant we can at

least regain 6th Next year in Italy.

The event had one of the longest loops I have ever been on, almost

20km. Very scenic and one heck of a single track trail. Put that

together with the level of sections and you had a challenging event

for most of the competitors. We were given 7 hours to finish and we

came in at 7 hrs with a 1minute penalty. Cody turned in some very

impressive rides matching the scores per section with some of the best.

Chris also had a couple good rides, in one section in particular, #9

where he was the only American to make it with 1 point non the less.

Keith did ok, had some trouble with conditioning towards the end.

Ronnie gained some valuable experience and tried 75% of the sections,

but I had him punch out a few as I knew it would not be in his best

interest to get beat up (even though he was willing).

Everyone was upbeat after the event sharing their ideas and what a

great experience this was. I have a good feeling for this team for

next year as there are some other good up-comers in both the women and

mens group. I really would like to give allot of credit to our support

riders Steve Forsley, Dave Allen and AL Duke who all rode 3 days in a

row, first helping the girls then the boys on a tough last day. To say

they were tired would be an understatement. These guys were

invaluable. What they lacked in experience they made up for in

determination, great guys!

I want to thank everyone else for all the support and help that was

given to make this possible, Next years team effort will be even better.

Thanks

Kip