Travel Update for Canadian Mountain Bikers

Yesterday we told you that Canadian mountain bikers Andrew Watson, Amanda Sin, Derek Zandstra, Raphael Gagne, Peter Glassford, Mical Dyck and Geoff Kabush were stuck in Canada. At Tuesday’s late hour, it looked as though these athletes would not be able to travel to Great Britain in time for the season-opening World Cup in Dalby, Yorkshire. But the good news is that some of these athletes have arranged flights.

Yesterday, Kabush posted the following on Twitter about his travel situation, “Relatively speaking I got lucky; seat opened up on flight to Paris for Thursday. Now looking at car/boat options to get to Dalby.”

In an email this afternoon, Watson said, “Derek, Amanda and myself are booked onto a flight to Frankfurt this afternoon. Then overland for a couple days.”

So, it looks like Canada will have at least a few members of the original roster racing this weekend. (Catharine Pendrel arrived in Great Britain, earlier this week – flying straight from Sea Otter.)

(Updated)

Catherine Vipond just emailed me with the following, “Just thought I’d let you know about the Canadians already in England. Matt Hadley (Xprezo) and myself (Norco Factory Team) decided to skip out on Sea Otter and instead head to England a week early. We arrived last Wednesday and raced in a local race on the weekend before heading up to Dalby Forest Area on Monday. We were out at the course today and really enjoyed having the course basically to ourselves, only seven riders there today. The organizers there were saying they expected a lot of people to arrive Thursday and Friday.”