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COLE SEELY
450 MX / 4TH
IMAGE / LANNAN WORDS / MATTINGLY DESIGN / TILLS
>> A gladiator can elevate to the level of his surroundings, at the drop of a single bullet, sword swipe, or any other form of weaponry in his arsenal. All it takes is one provoking action, a true jab at his character, and he is storming into the front lines of his opposition, holding a no-holds-barred attitude. You want
a visual representation of a modern-day braveheart at the Ironman national? None other than Cole Seely. Heck, you might as well just have split the blue/ white scheme onto his shroud graphics, the way he was going after anyone in sight in practice. Ruffling a few feathers, but he didn’t seem to mine, as he was looking out for himself only; and you can’t really blame him in that regard. With chunks of compost blended soil ricocheting off the goggles to begin moto one, he could feel the rounds of ammunition being belted off of his chest, as the op- posing 450’s heaved the clods with all of their might. Dipping into the numerous sections of G’outs amongst the trees, he was ever so slightly beginning to climb the ranks, lap after lap. Pushing forward until the wee laps of the moto, he’d found himself near the fourth place position in the closing moments, in front of Eli Tomac. He would reside here until the end, finishing fourth. The second moto saw Seely truly trying to reassure the crowd he was a solid pick for the MXoN, and after a third place start, along with a small fending of Justin Bogle, he sat comfortable in third, until the foreigner of Jeffrey Herlings quickly brushed him asided. He tried to whatever he could in order to remain intact to the KTM trio, but it was just too much to handle. He would bring home fourth for the moto, and fourth overall.
16 GRITMOTO • AUGUST 27, 2017