Day 1- Qualifications

Today racing for World Cup No.1 began for all classes. The C1Men were off first and James Dawson put down a very solid run putting him into 27th position. His 2nd run was not as smooth but still enough to place safely in the top 40 with a 30th placing.
Next up was K1Women... Ella Nicholas(Whos from NZL but is representing the Cook Islands) was first off. Unfortunately she missed 2 gates which put her out of contention for Qualification into the Semifinals. She did manage to put down a solid 2nd run though.
I was up next. I was feeling pretty nervous but knew what I needed to do. So I put down a resonably solid run. I was on line as per usual but lacked a bit of pace. I had 2 touches also. This put me into 43rd. My second run I knew I had nothing to lose so I picked up my pace and managed to go about 5seconds faster which was just enough to secure me a spot in tommorrows semi-final race, I ended up in 39th and the top 40 go through!!
Luuka was next and she finished her 1st run in 45th. She also knew she had nothing to lose so picked up her pace and moved up into 38th!
The C2 boys(Bryden Nicholas and Andrew Robinson) raced in the afternoon but unfortunately missed the cut for the C2 Semi's.
It was a very tense but excitin g day of racing. I felt pretty happy to have made it though as this is my first ever World Cup!
Tommorrows course is looking very tricky so will be a lot of fun! It is also really exciting as this race is a selection for both Luuka Jones and James Dawson to go to the Beijing Olympics. They must place in the Top 16 Nations. For James there are 20 Nations in the Semi-Final tommorrow and for Luuka there are 18 Nations. So Hopefully all going to plan they will get some Olympic spots!!

Racing begins tommorrow with C1Men: James Dawson races at 10:16am Europe time, so 8:16pm NZL time.
K1Womens: I am off at 11:16am Europe Time, so 9:16pm NZL time
Luuka Jones at 9:17pm NZL time.

You can check out results at www.slalomtroja.cz There is also Live TV that you can watch online!!!Which is awesome as you will get to see me racing Live all the way back in lil ol NZL!
If you go onto the above website there will be links to the live footage and results.