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Subject: Hot Heels is history !!!!

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gerhard

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Date Posted: 04:43:19 02/18/04 Wed

Yes, 12 years of history are gone with one phonecall !!!

So let me explain what happens, everybody which has been at Hot Heels in the past know that Hot Heels was the best show and greatest organised events beside the multi Million budget events.

Basicly it was me which financed the event and toke over the financial risk, and spend over 30.000.-- Euros in the past 5 years as an investment into Hot Heels, i pushed every year so hard that there was no way back, the resort , sponsors and the worldwide situation of our sport needed Hot Heels so badley after all big events have been gone. Also you guys with your entry fees have been huge supportiv in the past, but i know there is no way for you guys to pay over 500.-- Euros entry fees, so !!

Anyway last year i got Braun as the sponsor of Hot Heels, and we had a great deal, we also agreed about 2004, but it was a spoken deal and not a signed contract. So what happened, Braun part of the gillette group had internal changes and the new people agreed to a different sport which is FMX, due the reason they had to cut the budget Hot Heels got droped. I got the phonecall after daily pushing them twice, yesterday. Well yes the contract was not signed yet so what can i do, all i can is to agree.

Therefor i cannot invest any more money into Hot Heels (still paiing the bills from last year) , i have to cancel the event at least for one year. Well maybe its good to leave the #13 go true, maybe not, since yesterday we are allready working on Hot Heels 2005 and try to bring it back in 2005, there are too many people involved in the event and everybody likes to have the event back.

Also since yesterday we are working on a solution to give you the two promised World Cups in Europe and we found the solution.

Switzerland / Altb�ron will move back to the original Hot Heels date and the next following weekend we got the Red Bull Almabtrieb which is now the second world Cup for Europe.

York and Reinke are allready working on a package Deal like last year to support all overseas guys. This will be posted in about two weeks via mail from Hot Heels also with an explaination with what happened to Hot Heels this year.

Marcus will post the Tour in about latest two weeks time and you will see it looks great !

Without Hot Heels it doesn�t mean that our sport goes down , no we are getting bigger you will see,

i meanwhile will let you know that i�m very thankful for all your support over the past 12 years and will promise that i work hard to bring the most traditional event back.

Please don�t start to email me with your advice, i thought about this issue now for over 12 hours and was counting budget here and there and figured there is just no way, i was on the phone last night with the world and tried to find solution, we got them for the worldcups not for Hot Heels.

Please be patient and wait till you get the official Hot Heels mail with all detailed info and the announcement for Altb�ron and Almabtrieb.

I would once more like to say thanks to all of you for your support in the past years, i had such great fun, Thanks guys out there.

If you like to to me a favor: i will put Hot Heels merch, Hot Heels banners, Hot heels goodies on ebay soon for auction, if you are interested on one or more items please bit for it, you will help me out big time, since i�m still paying the bills from last year. My financial situation is critical and if you bit for like only a few Dollars or Euro�s i may survive without bankrupticy. If i survive i will try my best to bring Hot Heels back, if not i�m in a serios bad situation for the next 7 years and will probably not be able to help, organize anymore and work for you guys.

So wait until you get the item numbers and bit for them.

So well , i�m not serios injured or anything , i�m not gonna kill myself , i just hope that your support like in the past years is still there since i never needed your support more than this year.

yours Gerhard Lanz (Downhiller and Promoter since 1992)

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