Incase you haven't been paying attention, Kelvin Batey qualified the UK an Olympic Berth with qualifying to the 1/4 final at the Worlds, while the UK's golden boy Liam Phillips went ahead and filled motos. KELVIN earned the Olympic Berth for the country, yet the UK goes on to have a Trials race where Kelvin won the time trial, and then a crash first moto put him out of competition. I knew there would be politics to come along with the Olympics but this is politics at it's finest. Liams dad basically paid Liams way to the Olympics and that is the reason they had the trial to begin with. So unfortuneate because Liam is just an A-pro duck that is going to get smoked. I didn't know A-pro was an Olympic sport or I would have just started this Haro job years ago and quit training only to win an A-Pro Olympic Gold. I'm pretty bummed for Kelvin because this has been his focus for a while and he did all he could, and with out him, the country wouldn't have qualified a Berth. I'm pretty sure last place in every moto at the Worlds doesn't qualify a spot Liam. Oh well last place every moto is going to repeat it self once again in China next month as Liam is UK's Olympic Hopeful. Such a shame.
Nice that after Scot Erwood qualified Canada an Olympic Berth, and Jim Brown stepped up and tried to challenge him for it at an Olympic Trial in Chula Vista. In this case, Erwood showed him who is most deserving and Scot will be going to the games as he's the one who earned the Berth. Congrats.
Out for now... Taiwan trip in just under 2 weeks so there WILL be photos here of weird stuff.