Hoffman Sports Association Announces First Round of BMX Invites for ESPN’s X Games 14

Jun 08, 2008

Written by Bart de Jong

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The Hoffman Sports Association announced today the first round of invites for the BMX Freestyle competitions for ESPN’s X Games 14, to be held July 29-August 3 in Los Angeles. X Games 14 will bring back Vert and Big Air for BMX Freestyle, as well, the event will include two new competitions: Street and SuperPark. SuperPark will comprise 20 riders in a pre-qualifying round to select for a 10-rider final. Detailed schedule and competition format to be released soon.

Invitees include:
Super Park – Full class will be 20 riders:
1. Daniel Dhers
2. Scotty Cranmer
3. Dave Mirra
4 Morgan Wade
5 Ryan Nyquist
6 Gary Young
7 Dennis Enarson

8 Josh Harrington
9 Ryan Guettler
10 Mike Aitken
11 Chris Doyle

Big Air – Full class will be 6 riders:
1. Kevin Robinson
2. Anthony Napolitan
3. Steve McCann
4 Chad Kagy
5 Morgan Wade

Street – Full class will be 12 riders:
1. Garrett Reynolds
2. Aaron Ross
3. Van Homan
4 Corey Martinez
5 Dakota Roche
6 Brad Simms

7 Brian Kachinsky
8 Sean Sexton
9 Josh Harrington

Vert – Full class will be 10 riders:
1. Jamie Bestwick
2. Simon Tabron
3. Kevin Robinson
4 Chad Kagy
5 Zack Warden
6 Jimmy Walker
7 Francisco “CoCo” Zurita
8 Steve McCann

The second and final round of invites will announce 9 riders for SuperPark; 3 riders for Street; 2 riders for Vert; and 1 rider for Big Air and will take place on or about June 24, 2008.

The Hoffman Sports Association (H.S.A.) was established in 1991 by the legendary BMX Freestyle athlete Mat Hoffman and is one of the leading BMX Freestyle events organizers in the World. The H.S.A. has worked with ESPN for more than 13 years to organize all its BMX competitions including all international X Games events. For more information about the H.S.A., visit www.hsabmx.com.