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JOEY GOUGH - BMX & MTB GIRL

The first euro rounds of 07/08 happened at the weekend, not so much of a gap since the last race this year.

There was a lot of crashes happening, unfortunately I was one of them! On day one I drew a tough moto with Anne Caro and Le Corgielle and a couple of other main makers from last year, but I was feeling good and got a 3rd and a 2nd in the first two motos. In the last moto I mis-judged a double, I'm not entirely sure what happened but I crashed pretty hard. I still qualified for the semi but I hurt my hip and couldn't put any weight on it and was a bit concussed too, so I couldn't race :0( I still couldn't walk on it sunday morning but after some pain killers it improved massively and although I couldn't race, I was just relived it was nothing serious and I'll be back on it in no time. Thanks to the guys that helped me to and from the stands saturday night so I could watch the finals!

Sunday saw even more crashes, it seemed like every semi had a faller. It took forever, not helped by the over careful first aiders but hey you can't really complain about that (When I fell I tried several times to get up and they shoved me back down, insisting they put me on the stretcher. I finally managed to get them to let me stand up. Then realised I couldn't walk...what an idiot I felt like then!) Bloomy had some great gates and was right up there in his first race back after a year out with injury. He certainly hasn't lost his silky smooth skills thats for sure! Liam P was flying on his first elite outing, crashing outday one and unlucky not to make the main on day 2, he was in a qualifying position in the semi but got caught up on the outside in the supertight 2nd corner. Kelvin was also looking fast but crashed out both days, the semi on day 1 and the quarter on day 2. Those corners did seem like a lottery sometimes for the elite men. Shanaze was GB's only finalist on day 2, she had blitzed the final on day one but left a bit of a gap in the first turn on day 2 and got pushed out, with France's le Corgielle snatching the win.

Next rounds, Zwolle Indoor in January.