A short vid from Hangtown that shows more of her:
Lets hope that the other women now step up, and try to match her - JP and others have been either cruising for a few years, or they have reached their personal best. Tara Geiger and a couple of others, were in Spain for the Enduro X, but she / they would not come close to Courtney.
I do hope she is not ignored for being less than a 'glamour girl' - I've long thought, that besides the stagnant level of WMX talent in the US, Ashley Fiolek got a lot more attention and backing because many males would think she was 'cute'. JP , I think, suffers from the 'non glamour girl' syndrome, I believe. I don't give a flying f*** about that sort of thing in the athletes I admire ( though I like a good perv like most blokes), and I've never been more impressed by AF's
genuinely great accomplishments by her being being deaf.
Stusmoke - you're an OZ bloke, aren't you? And you haven't heard of Josh Coppins? If you follow MX - well, at least a
tiny bit of the GPs and OZ MX, you would have heard of him. Hey, I'm the first bloke to put my hand up and say I don't very closely follow OZ MX / MXers, until they get to hell out of here, to go for other, bigger things, but if you are an Aussie - or one of those 'orrible Kiwis', his name has been thrown around for years. Strewth, I think even the mainly inward looking Americans, may have heard of him............
As for your comment :
"My concern is though, the extraordinary amount of ammunition this will give to the AMA and by extension the big four to say that DD is fair." I too. share this same concern. She'll have to race back here in the Antipodes, the be allowed to race a 250 2t, against 250 4ts - though, I think Loretta Lynn's allows equivalency? - She'll be on a 250F though, if she goes to a 250 - it's how it goes. Though, I'd love to be wrong on that.