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Traditionally on Friday before the "Grands" in Oklahoma, the Race of Champions/President Cup takes  place. This weekend the BMX racing scene have gathered in Tulsa to for the biggest race ever. Lots of international riders made the trip too and some of them landed in the finals (Elke Vanhoof, Willers, Strombergs, Daudet) or even on the podium of the kick-off race (France's Derom, Javier Colombo, Christian Becerine, Mariana Pajon, Kurt Pickard and Sam Willoughby). The big points can be gathered this weekend but this is how the BMX racers ended up on Friday:

RESULTS RACE OF CHAMPIONS/PRESIDENT CUP 2013:
 
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Bicycle Supercross (BSX), the world’s largest annual one-on-one BMX race, is delighted to announce that leading audio lifestyle brand Monster Products has signed on as the title partner for BSX 2014. Announcing the partnership, event founder, Shane Jenkins said he was delighted that Monster Products – managed and distributed throughout Australia by Convoy International – had agreed to team up with BSX to help raise funds for Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

“When I look back over the short history of the event I feel very proud that we have been able to work with so many amazing people to raise money for the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation. Not only have we previously worked with Australian cycling icons such as Tour de France winner, Cadel Evans and Australian Women’s Athlete of the Year, Caroline Buchanan, we have also partnered up with a number of industry leaders. I’m very excited that we will be working with Monster Products for 2014.”

For the first time anywhere, Greg Romero reveals his secrets of developing a faster first straight! Greg shares the same training methods that his coached pros, world champions and Olympians are using. Greg introduces his development methods and breaks down the progressions and mechanics of the first straight from the gate start and acceleration phases all the way to the first turn. Learn how to train in an effort to dominate the first straight like you’ve never done before. This DVD will blow you away!

-TRAIN YOUR FIRST STRAIGHT USING THE GREG ROMERO METHOD

Saturday results:

Elite Men
1 Evgeny Kleshchenko (Rus)
2 Tony Syarifudin (Indonesia)
3 Panyapon Sornkla (Thaïland)

Elite Women
1 Shanaze Reade (UK)

A year ago Augusto decided to take a year off BMX and discover different things that this Elite BMX racer could never do because of his dedication to the sport he loved so much. As Augusto pondered and watched his Elite Professional Superclass competion on TV, Augusto motivation and desire was not their. Augusto always felt invincible and entrusted that he could win every race he entered. For this reason, Augusto decided not to compete if the fire was not there anymore.

Augusto always gave God the glory for giving him the ability to compete at the highest level one could in BMX and for putting his