Despres is Bike champion; Patronelli takes Quad title
by Mikko Jalonen, Dakar correspondent [January 16, 2012]
Once a year, the amateurs and the best rally-raid riders of the world all gather together to compete in the toughest rally in the world: The Dakar! The event has became one of the biggest motorsport spectacles of the year and for the teams and riders, winning the Dakar rally is as important as sportscar drivers taking the win in the 24 hours of Le Mans or for a F1 driver to win the Grand Prix of Monaco. Today before being celebrating in Lima, the capital city of Peru, the riders had to get to grip with the sand and dunes one more time in a short 29 km special stage before having a change to relax. Navigation, through wasn‘t as vital as the stage was in pairs of riders, and started in reversed order to give back to the event a more traditional type of ending.
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Coma Reclaims Dakar Lead [January 13, 2012] [Motor Racing]
Spanish motorcyclist Marc Coma reclaimed the overall lead in the Dakar Rally on Friday when he stormed to victory on the 12th stage from Arequipa to Nasca, replacing France's Cyril Despres.
The KTM rider, who had been more than two minutes off the .....
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Ryan Dungey snares KTM's first Supercross class podium [January 11, 2012] [Motocross]
Red Bull/KTM Factory Team rider Ryan Dungey finished 3rd overall at the opening round of the AMA Supercross Series effectively earning KTM's first-ever U.S. Supercross class podium finish.
Dungey scores first Supercross podium for KTM
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Vail struggles as snowless ski season hits West [January 9, 2012] [Skiing]
Vail Resorts Inc. (MTN) shares have fallen 15 percent since Dec. 23 as major ski trails were closed at the company’s mountain properties in the western U.S. because of a lack of snow.
Visitors to the company’s resorts were down 15.3 percent compar .....
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xsession Files
Ski Race gone wrong
I was down the snow with some mates. We decided to have a race from the top of Perisher Mountain (in Australia) down to the bottom of the quad chair. There was four of us and I was coming third after about a minute, so I decided to take a short cut. I headed into a small gathering of trees. After weaving through those I came to a gap of about 2 metres where the water had dug a trench in the snow. A side wards glance revealed that I was winning the race, so my only option was to try and jump the 2m gap. In the seconds leading up to the jump, I though that I was going to make it, but as my snowboard quickly got wedged into the snow halfway down the gulley my thoughts changed. Going from about 40 km/h to 0 in a second, snapped my left ankle and dislocated my shoulder, not to mention the 7 cm gash on my shin.
I would like to take this moment to thank the Persiher Blue ski patrol. ... by the way I lost the race! .....
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Some Cold Shoulders Given to New Kiteboarders [Kitesurfing]
While there are plenty of long-time kite surfers who will lend a hand to newcomers of the extreme sport, more than 80% of the members of AKSA, the newly formed American Kite Surfing Association, report being treated rudely by an experienced kite surf .....
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Building a half pipe for snowboarding [Snowboarding]
Perhaps one of the most exhilarating things to snowboard on is a half pipe. A half pipe is a combination of gracefully arcs and glorious straight stretches that allow you to perform skateboarding tricks with your snowboard. The only other thing that .....
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Ski Resorts in Bulgaria [Snowboarding, Skiing]
Modern Borovets is one of the larger and increasingly popular winter resorts in the Balkan region. and situated on scenic northern slopes of the Mousala Ridge in the east of the panoramic Rila Mountains. The resort lies huddled in thick pine forests .....
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