🤩 Alona wins UAE Baja World Cup 🤩
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🤩 Alona wins UAE Baja World Cup 🤩
> “We are all human … we want peace, we all have families at home, we want to go home safe,” she said. “Be polite to other people, smile, enjoy, and just give good energy and vibes.”
> Israeli motorcyclist will race past dunes and prejudice at UAE’s Baja World Cup Alona Ben Natan enters the Dubai International Baja aiming for a global title and carrying a message shaped by resilience, loss and a belief that human connection can survive even when governments clash.
- https://www.ynetnews.com/sport/article/hybhs5dlwg
#moto #baja #alona #israel #beautiful #inspiration #racing #winning
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🤩 Alona wins UAE Baja World Cup 🤩
> “We are all human … we want peace, we all have families at home, we want to go home safe,” she said. “Be polite to other people, smile, enjoy, and just give good energy and vibes.”
> Israeli motorcyclist will race past dunes and prejudice at UAE’s Baja World Cup Alona Ben Natan enters the Dubai International Baja aiming for a global title and carrying a message shaped by resilience, loss and a belief that human connection can survive even when governments clash.
- https://www.ynetnews.com/sport/article/hybhs5dlwg
#moto #baja #alona #israel #beautiful #inspiration #racing #winning
a bit of background of personal relevance..
Alona is an absolute inspiration for women in moto, which has historically been so incredibly difficult - not specifically due to the physicality requirements or rampant misogyny (those aren't not-reasons) but because of the "invisible wall". The impression that "we aren't around" fuels the perception that we shouldn't even try the sport to see if it's enjoyable — it's an antithetical self-perpetuating problem for young girls and women in motorsports.
Where motocross and enduro are concerned, simply to have female training partners or trail riding partners, it can be damn near impossible for so many - and partners need to be physically matched. My last partner only found me through the pin-board at the local shop, after both looking for half a year.
I managed eighteen years of moto riding (after several years of cross-country and cyclocross racing), but that one last get-off; throttle pinned on the husky's 250cc, deep sand harmonics with criss-crossing ruts in a two-track wide 2km straight — then all the view becomes July's pure cobalt sky — landing in rocks, cervical spine was never the same. I miss riding in Death Valley most of all.
Here's an additional interview for more details: https://unitedwithisrael.org/israeli-motorcyclist-wins-bajas-world-cup-in-dubai/