Yessir, drink too much beer at the ‘cross race, piss at the edge of the course. Posted a digi version of this shot back in November, but when I got this 120 BW film version back yesterday I thought it was different enough to show. Luckily this race, Mouscron, was super flat, dry, and not so crowded. Steep courses with mud and massive crowds, like I shot three days later in Gavere, are the worst combination for the dreaded passive Belgian ‘cross hooliganism. Drunk Belgian Dudes (DBD), I mean hammered to the edge of unconsciousness, have a hard time staying upright on the glacially slippery mud. And then put them on the sides of hills, and watch out. At the ‘05 Worlds in Germany, run on a hillside course covered in snow and ice, I saw a couple DBD lose their footing and skid all the way across the course – during the race! So when you read about Niels Albert getting knocked on his ass by a spectator you can just chalk it up the vagaries of the DBD. That, and the credo that “the whole world is a Port-a-Potty” ethos.