True Character Shown in GNCC Race
by Tim Crytser
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The following portion is taken from Jason Weigandt's Quickfill column on GNCCRacing.com
.....Thanks, Jason. Here's a few tid bits from the John Penton. I'm still amazed at the sportsmanship you find at the top level of our sport. I know sportsmanship is the norm in the amateur ranks - riders helping riders, but at the top level? A guy stopping to help a competitor stuck in the mud when he might very well have won the event if he hadn't? Josh Strang did just that, helping Cory Buttrick out of a deep and muddy rut on the final lap of the race. On the podium, Buttrick thanked Strang and said that was the best thing anyone had ever done for him during a race. When I asked Strang about it he just shrugged it off and said he was raised that way.
Here's how it went down: "On the last lap Cory was behind me and then he passed me," Strang told me. "I had heard that Charlie had DNFed and a second was looking pretty good, plus, Cory was riding really well. Anyway, I finally caught back up to Cory a couple of miles from the finish and he was stuck with a bunch of other riders. No one was helping him, so I jumped off my bike and helped him. I pulled him out and then he got to the top of the hill and waited until I got set up to get out. We weren't going anywhere, and I'm not sure how many people would do that for me, but that's something I would do. That's just the person I am - it's the way I was raised."
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