There are a dozen or men and women from the press here covering the event.
FIM rules allow the press to be in the enclosure area in the sections, the space between the white section tape and the yellow outer tape marking the crowd boundary. We’re given orange bibs so the riders don’t mistake us for dumb rocks.
Saturday’s edition of the Chattanooga Times Free Press featured the Wagner Cup on the front page in a story titled, Stunt bike competition roars off today.
A TV news crew from the NBC affiliate in Chattanooga, Channel 9, came out to the TTC today to do a story on this weekend’s World Championships. 2007 U.S. High School National Champion Alex Bedley and his mom, Catherine Bedley, were featured in the 2.5 minute piece which aired this evening. Both the text and the video are available on their website.
Here’s the official press release (PDF). Feel free to send this to your favorite local media organization.
In the April 2008 issue of AMA’s American Motorcyclist magazine, there’s a blurb in the Competition section on page 70 about the Wagner Cup:
WORLD’S BEST BALANCING ACT; World Trials Lands Here
The World Trials U.S. Grand Prix is coming to town. And if you have any appreciation at all for man’s ability to defy gravity on two wheels, you won’t want to miss it. Competitors in the FIM World Trials Championships are the best you’ll see anywhere, and this is your only chance to see this world-class talent on U.S. soil in ’08. The 2008 USGP World Trials Competition goes down April 26-27 at the Trials Training Center in Sequatchie, Tennessee. For more information, call (423) 942-8688 or see www.trialstrainingcenter.com.
This flyer for the 2008 Wagner Cup / WTC USGP (color PDF on the left, B&W jpg on the right) appeared in the March 2008 issue of Trials Competition.
Feel free to print it out and pass it around/post it.
