Where? Never heard of it?

One day prior to 24 hour worlds this summer a mandatory rider press conference was held to review rules and regulations, introduce the racers, as well as announce the location of the 2010 World Championship.

I was amazed at how many Australian racers represented the overall field. After a few days in Canmore I was actually beginning to feel like a minority being from America and being on big wheels.

Stuart Dorland, race director, saved the 2010 location announcement for the end of the meeting. With great pride, he finally announced that next year’s race was not only going to be void of North American Soil, but also not even in this hemisphere! As he started to announce “Australia”, before he could even finish the room erupted with a choir of surly Australians screaming “Aussie, Aussie, AUSSIE…OI…OI!” for about the next ten minutes.

Eventually the loudness settled down and Alan Smith turned to me and in a sarcastic tone belted out a boisterous, “WHERE?...Neva heard of it!!!”.