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#103 - 🇬🇧 Tony Seagrave: IS DOWNHILL GOING TOO FAST?
Downhill has never been this fast.
And for Tony Seagrave, safety is not keeping up.
Tony is the team manager of Orbea FMD Racing, a team he built from nothing around a single rider: his daughter. I met him in Les Gets, the day before the World Cup.
Fifteen years ago he was a football coach, paying thousands so Tahnée could race, with one race bike shared between his two kids. Today the team runs sixteen people and a truck.
We talked about tracks that have become too straight, about helmets getting bigger, about airbags, and about what he calls the bubble wrap around the riders.
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