Photo Report | 2016 Mini O’s | Saturday – Finals Day By Billy Rainford After a long week of racing and whittling down, we finally made it to Saturday of the 45th Annual Thor Winter Olympics, better known as “The Mini O’s.” With 2284 entries, the crew had their work cut out for them to keep everything running on schedule. You just never know what can happen when we’re racing
Monday Morning Coffee | The Mini O’s By Billy Rainford Hello, and welcome to a beautiful Monday Morning Coffee from Gainesville, Florida. We just wrapped up a very long week of racing action from the 45th Annual Thor Winter Olympics, but you can call them ‘The Mini O’s.’ As I sat down to start typing this morning, the power suddenly went out at the Starbucks I was sitting at in
2016 Mini O’s | Canadian Podcasts By Billy Rainford At the end of a very long week, we grabbed a few of the Canadians competing at the 45th Annual Thor Winter Olympics – The Mini O’s – for a quick chat about their weeks as they got ready for the long drives ahead of them. Actually, a lot of these kids will stay south to train a while longer before
Frid’Eh Update #48 | Presented by MP County Line By Jeff McConkey and Billy Rainford (not really) Welcome to Week #48 of the Direct Motocross Frid’Eh Update this week presented by MP County Line. In 2016, #48 belonged to American rider, Shawn Rife. He only raced a handful of nationals in 2015 and earned 74 points. Here’s a look at his brief season: I wasn’t able to get in touch
Photo Report | 2016 Mini O’s | Friday By Billy Rainford Presented by This was another full day of racing at the 45th Annual Thor Winter Olympics. We made it all the way through the heats and the consolation races. Tomorrow will be all finals. Canadians had some pretty impressive performances that had people talking. Let’s get right to it.
Photo Report | 2016 Mini O’s | Thursday – MX Begins By Billy Rainford Today was all about the motocross track at the 45th Annual Thor Winter Olympics. All of the Supercross champions were crowned Wednesday and we all shifted our attention 90 degrees to the famous Gatorback track. They got through a bunch of mx practice Wednesday, but there were still a bunch to run. With 2284 entries, there
On the Radar | Cody Bint | Presented by Blade By Jeff McConkey Name: Cody Bint Age: 21 Hometown: Simcoe, ON Occupation: Toyota Plastics Line Worker Number: 95 Bike: 2017 YZ250F Race Club: TVR, AMO, AMA Classes: MX2 and MX3 Intermediate, 250B How did you get started in racing? I got started racing because our family friends raced CMRC, so we decided that I should give TVR a shot. I
Photo Report | 2016 Mini O’s | Wednesday SX Finals By Billy Rainford It was one final after another today on the last day of racing on the Supercross track at Gatorback Cycle Park. The weather has been warming up steadily as the week moves on and the morning was actually above freezing for the first gate drop of the day. I’m sleeping in a tent, so I really appreciated
Out of the Blue |Tamara Jurkiewicz | Presented by Schrader’s By Jeff McConkey Name: Tamara Jurkiewicz Birthday: July 24, 1996 Hometown: Pierrefonds, QC Occupation: McGill University – Teaching English as a Second Language Number: 43 Bike: KX 85 2016 Race Club: I will start racing in the Challenge Quebec series in 2017. Classes: Women B How did you get started riding? In 2015, I spent the entire summer watching my boyfriend ride and considering I’m an adrenaline junkie,
Photo Report | 2016 Mini O’s | Tuesday By Billy Rainford We got some more racing wrapped up and finals decided today at the 45th Annual Thor Winter Olympics. It will be nothing but mains tomorrow before we head over to the motocross track for the remainder of the week. We had a bunch of Canadians racing again today and most of them will be on the track tomorrow in