Advocacy/politics

Here are Day 2 and Day 3 reports from the 2006 IMBA Summit in Whistler, British Columbia, by Mark Eller, IMBA Communications Manager.

Day 2

The 2006 IMBA Summit/World Mountain Bike Conference continued in Whistler, BC, today (6/22/06) with a keynote address by Joey Klein. An IMBA Trail Specialist, Klein oversees the planning, design and construction of trail systems all over the world. Addressing an audience of more than 400 delegates, Klein described some of the mountain biking destinations he's crafted, including planning Olympic Mountain Bike courses, helping create Welsh and Scottish national mountain bike centers, and promoting the sport of mountain biking in several countries. Klein was also instrumental in jump-starting IMBA's Trail Solutions program in 2002, after a three-year stint in the Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew program.

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Our friends at IMBA are all at the IMBA Summit/World Mountain Bike Conference in Whistler, British Columbia, this week. Here's a release issued today from IMBA communications manager Mark Eller:

The 2006 IMBA Summit/World Mountain Bike Conference opened in Whistler, BC, yesterday (6/21/06) with a keynote address by Marion Lay. The two-time Olympian greeted 400 delegates from more than a dozen nations attending the Summit/Conference. The audience, comprised of mountain bike advocates, club leaders, land managers and members of the bicycle industry, responded warmly to Lay's remarks on Canada's commitment to the sustainable development of resources for the 2010 Winter Games. Lay also pointed to Whistler's trail systems as a "phenomenal economic and environmental success story."

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