Any body have any more info.

Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 7:02 a.m. PT, Tues., July. 1, 2008
In his 24 years with the Anchorage Fire Department, Mike Crotty had never seen injuries so traumatic. The victim, a 15-year-old girl, had been mauled by a grizzly bear while competing in a bike race. She was covered in blood, her carotid artery was damaged, and much of her body had been bitten and mauled.

“It was sudden, horrifying, and the injuries she suffered left a deep impact on all of us,†Crotty told TODAY’s Matt Lauer Tuesday from Anchorage, Alaska. “This is one of the most significant traumatic injuries that I’ve seen.â€

Thanks to her courage and ability to think clearly despite horrible injuries, Petra Davis is going to be all right, said Peter Bassinger, the man who found her moments after the Sunday morning attack on a trail in Far North Bicentennial Park.

Here's an interesting view of it,

Petra Davis Mauled by Brown Bear, But Who Planned this Bike Race?
InjuryBoard.com
July 06, 2008

We all wish this young woman, 15, a speedy recovery. But area biologists have been warning about a terrible event like this for years. Ms. Davis was a participant in a mountain bike race. The route took racers through Bicentennial Park, and its heavy vegetation, and its salmon-choked stream, and its salmon-foraging black and brown bears, late at night. Petra was seriously injured and is lucky to be alive.

And while it might not be a popular case to bring, Petra and her parents likely have personal injury claims against those who, many would argue, set this kid up to get hurt as she did. Safety is no accident. And "Safety Science 101" teaches that we all need to examine our activities for any chance of serious injury or death. If such a risk, even a slight one, is identified, then it needs to be eliminated, if practical and feasible to do so. If the risk can't be practically or feasibly eliminated, it must be guarded against. If not practical and feasible to guard against, it should be the subject of an adequate warning. This route, for this race, at this time of year, at that time of day, broke all of these rules.

Can't say as I disagree with this guy. What idiot thought it was a good idea to race mountain bikes through thick brush in grizzly country ?

This trail system is in a green belt that bumps up against town and is surrounded by housing subdivisions, this is not in the middle of no where. It is a well established well used system. The salmon have not moved into the creeks in that area that happens latter this mouth. This time of year it just does not get dark. Any trail in Alaska that you could hold a bike race on will be brushy, and have the possibility of running into a bear. Every year there are thousands of users of this area and this is the first bear attack I heard of in that area in the 26 years that I have lived here. Any sport has risks, if she had crashed her bike on a rock and was severely hurt would you advocate suing the organizers? One of the risks of biking in Alaska is getting mauled by a bear. Face it, it is tougher in AK.

I have to say that if the girl was fifteen where is the parents responsibility in all of this?
Could they not have just said no?