I just got an email notifying me about some pretty funny beef going on over on the Ride site in regards to the X Games vert contest this year. Fat Tony wrote:
“What ESPN didn’t show you, though, is how DMC may have cost Tim Wood a spot in the finals this year. The way the format of Vert works is that there is a 12-minute jam session for five riders. Each rider gets to ride for 30 seconds at a time, so at the end of the 30 seconds the next person has to drop in on their own accord. If you fall, your run is over and you have to get off the ramp so the other riders can continue to ride. On two separate occasions in the contest (once after crashing and once after pulling a run) Dennis wasted time by playing around on the flat bottom of the ramp, eating up valuable time on the clock that Tim Wood would have used to drop a run that could have got him into the finals. And with perfect 900s and lots of 540 variations, Tim could very well have scored well enough to make it to the finals had he given it another full run. Simon Tabron even passed on his run and gave it to Tim because he already had a good enough score to make it to the finals and wanted to see Tim get as fair of a chance as possible. I’m not here to call out a legend in our sport, but if I’m reporting on the contest honestly, I thought the showboating on flat bottom by DMC was in poor taste when so much was on the line, and I would have liked to see Tim Wood get in another full run.”
Hmm. DMC and Simon Tabron both respond in the comments (funny quote from DMC to Simon: “I can’t believe you responded to this article just 36 minutes after it was posted. Were you a co-author?”). I don’t have any opinion on this but it’s interesting.
Previously: Props Issue 11 – BS Finals Daytona Beach, FL| Dumb Sportswriter Says Dumb Things About Dennis Mccoy.| Vans “Then & Now” With Dennis McCoy.