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let’s have some of theirs
stay & Race MEC.
Ama MX series should finish two weeks before mxon race.
Or add two more rounds to the nationals and more breaks between races
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The tides will turn and another country will have the faster riders and this is just the reality of the sport. There might be some changes the USA can make so we end our Nationals at the same time as the MXGPs but I doubt that is going to make the difference we might be expecting.
Enjoy the racing!!!
The rest of the world doesn’t race SX, so it’s irrelevant. It’s a US-only side show. You can’t claim to hold the rest of the world to a US standard. You’re just one nation, I’m afraid. If you want to come to the world stage, you’ve got to benchmark yourself to the world standard, not your own national standard.
If that is the feeble excuse you want to stick to, then you honestly might as well not send a team. Stick to your own national series and become irrelevant internationally.
All that happened is this: your guys rode badly. That’s it. That is it.
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I'd love to see the US team even have an outside shot at winning again...but at this point, I don't see it happening.
I'm an American - our boys rode bad, no doubt about that, but it happens. But the insane amount of excuses in this thread as to the why's and the crying and threats of "come race sx and see how you do!" are childish, stupid and irrelevant as you said.
It makes Americans look far worse than the results of the riders...
This thread is a trainwreck of awful excuses and whining from sore losers.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattrybaltowski/2018/05/13/supercross-caps…
Motocross, in America, is the side show now. Like it or not, the numbers don't lie. We're seeing more and more supercross influenced outdoor tracks with huge jumps in an attempt to attract more fans and to keep the coveted 18-34 male demographic interested.
How big is the FIM World Motocross Championship in Europe? I can't find much info regarding media coverage/ratings, attendance, etc. I'd be curious to see how close the numbers are of people around the world that tune in to the GP's vs. Supercross.
This is an MX race, we got our asses kicked. I don't care about the popularity of SX or who would win in SX.
This isn't SX, this is MX and we're discussing MXoN - this past race specifically.
If you want to hang on the semantics of someone calling SX a side-show (which I agree with you that it is not) go ahead. But don't sit there and think that's a legit excuse for the US getting beat or that it some how makes it less meaningful. Don't be that guy. If it makes you feel better about it, in your head pretend he said "it's a US only show"; his statement isn't any less correct.
We got beat racing outdoor MX by riders who were simply better than we were. It has happened in the past, it will happen in the future.
Take SX out of the equation - because it isn't relevant in this conversation at all.
Your team could have won last weekend had they ridden well. That’s all it comes down to. I don’t think any of them had the legs to win any of the races, but as a team they definitely could have won. They just rode badly. That’s it. There doesn’t need to be any more excuse making.
The US will win again, and will very likely go on a streak again at some point.
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