"As many of you have heard, the IGSA was planning to stage a World Cup event in Portugal September 22-24. We regret to announce that the event will not take place. The IGSA has been working with an event promotion company based in Lisbon since February to organize a first class event that would be a huge step forward for the sport. We had to impose a final deadline of Friday August 4th on the promoters to give us confirmation that the event would take place. Unfortunately the deadline came and went without that confirmation. We are still hopeful that this event can take place in the future.
Some of the rider benefits were to include free hotel rooms for the top sixteen ranked IGSA riders in both Downhill Skateboarding and Street Luge, deeply discounted airfares for all of the competitors, a large prize purse and international television. The event was going to be organized by senior IGSA officials including, Alexander Maia, Yorck Dertinger, Bob Ozman, and Marcus Rietema. Due to the great benefit that this event would have given to the sport, we held out until the last possible moment before finally deciding to cancel it. The remaining 2006 IGSA World Cup events in Bainbridge, Ohio and South Africa will take place as scheduled.
Marcus Rietema President-International Gravity Sports Association (IGSA) 638 N. Crestview Dr Glendora, CA. 91741 Phone: (951) 532-6378 European Mobile: +31 (0)61 145-2536 www.gravity-sports.com"
One of the most exciting developments of the year is that the French Commission Nationale Descente(CND) has decided to join the IGSA so that French downhill events will receive IGSA World Cup Series points. The CND is a national sports federation that is actually backed by the French government! For years, the French downhill scene has been one of the strongest on the planet and the IGSA is very excited to be working with the CND.
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This race report comes to us from Riley "RJ" Meehan, the 15-year old, multi-discipline gravity racer from Southern California on his first IGSA European racing circuit.
Åre, Sweden, the site of the 2007 World Cup Ski events, showed its colors for the 2006 IGSA World Cup event when riders from 15 countries converged in the small mountain town for the race. Monday practice started promptly, after a more-or-less organized riders meeting in the Åre Mountain Games town square. It was a nice change to have practice start at 4 PM instead of earlier in the morning, because it gave lots of time to go around, check out the town, and meet other interesting riders.
Practice was set from 4 PM to 10 PM because, if you didn’t know, the sun Doesn’t set until 10 PM and it’s still light outside past midnight! Pretty much the perfect place for a bunch of gravity junkies to have a race and party all night! Petter Österling, the event organizer, informed the riders that the two buses were here to take everyone to the hill, and without much ado, a caravan of riders were heading to the location of the race course.
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