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Elite Men TC standings after two rounds:
1  27 NIELS TEPPER 40
2  29 JORDY VAN DER HEIJDEN 40
3  7 JELLE VAN GORKOM 23
4  2 JASPER VERKUIJL 21
5  3 EDGAR BISSELING 20
6  1 MARTIJN JASPERS 20
7  6 NIELS VERRIJT 17
8  18 HARM VAN BRUSSEL 17
9  4 KEVIN SPRENGERS 17
10  28 RICK BOK 15
11  5 RICK VAN DEN DIKKENBERG 15
12   10 KEVIN VAN DER LINDE 15
13  23 IVO VAN DER PUTTEN 15
14  8 NOUD VERSTEGEN 14
15  25 SANDER WIJNE 13
16  21 JORDY AGUES 10

The first MX Grand Prix of the season took place in Valkenswaard this past weekend. 26.000 spectators showed up over the weekend starting with all sorts of team presentations on Friday followed by the qualifying races on Saturday and the actual GP on Sunday.
The good thing about the first GP is the excitement. New trucks, new gear, new posters, and everything just looks brand new. The bikes have been worked on since the last GP ended and are all well prepared. 

Australia's BMX Team was put through their paces today, in a four hour long training session in Penrith, west of Sydney. Eleven members of Australia's high performance team rode the Beijing Olympic replica track. The 350 metre long track features a three-storey high starting ramp. The track was built by world number five, Luke Madill to gain him an advantage leading up to the sport's debut at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.The 27 year old now has one of only three similar tracks in existence. Riders will face a similar starting ramp and track at the upcoming UCI BMX World Cup 

April 12, 1996: Filming for British Knights Commercial
Actual Journal Entry:
I woke up at 4:30AM & I went to the North Star ski resort (near Reno, Nevada). I went up there with the production crew to film me on my mountain bike for the British Knights shoes commercial. We went straight up to the top of the mountain. They made all of these giant rollers (with snow) on one ski run. About 40 rollers in a row & four across. They were all staggered & all were about 10ft wide.

For the first time the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup presented by Swatch will head “Down Under” to the southern hemisphere when the second round gets underway in Adelaide, South Australia on the 12-13 April. As BMX racing nears its debut at the Beijing 2008 Olympics all countries the race to qualify riders is heating up. With country ranking nearing the cut-off at the end of May all nations will try to qualify in the top rankings at the Adelaide round.and aim to take a maximum number of riders to Beijing.  

Elite men
1 Kyle Bennett
2 Danny Caluag
3 Donny Robinson
4 Jason Richardson
5 Joey Bradford
6 Jarrett Kolich
7 Alan Hudson
8 Barry Nobles

Elite women
1 Jill Kintner
2 Arielle Martin
3 Stephanie Barragan
4 Amanda Geving
5 Kim Hayashi
6 Afton Schrimpf 

KwaZulu-Natal's Deon Mulder is a young man that knows how to seize an opportunity when it presents itself. The 19-year-old Pinetown rider proved this when he claimed both Elite Men's titles at the first two rounds of the 2008 MTN BMX National championship Series held at Giba Gorge in Sout Africa. With a handful of the country's top Elite male riders currently competing abroad, a new crop of riders were able to sample the view from a national champs podium and Mulder, who races for Team Cycle Crazy,

For the first time in BMX history, the ABA (American Bicycle Association) is teaming up with USA Cycling - to hold this years' highly important USAC BMX National Championships (i.e. the one race of the year where the winner takes the stars 'n bars jersey - as well as some precious points toward Olympic team qualification). Of course, Team REDLINE is hoping to make a little bit of BMX history of their own, here at Denzel Stein's hometrack of Metroplex BMX - the USA's first city-funded covered arena funded by hotel tax dollars.

For home crowd favorite DENZEL STEIN, the rookie pro of the year nominee, a top finish in single-A pro would bump him over the $3000 mark and turn him in to a major leaguer, And with 4 to 6 bike length leads every time he got on the track, there was pretty much no one close to stopping him in his quest for victory. After going 1-1-1 in the motos, followed by 1-1-1 in the mains, please give a big round

Two weekends ago at the UCI Round 9 and 10 at the NBL Gator Nationals the BMX world got to see Tyler Brown take his first laps as a Supercross BMX Factory Team member. After privateering on a Supercross EVO iS at the start of the season it seemed like it was only going to be a matter of time before Tyler joined the Supercross BMX family. "After hanging out in the Supercross pits at the Goodyear Nationals and UCI race where Tyler took his first UCI Podium and then after hanging out with Sammy in Madrid where Tyler made his 

Hyper Bicycles is proud to announce that they have signed a multi-year sponsorship agreement with “dR” Donny Robinson. Among the sports most decorated elite, dR’s seemingly endless career has earned him accomplishments such as the 2006 National Bicycle League #1 Pro honor, 2006 UCI Supercross Series Title, 2007 National Champion and Winner of the 2007 Olympic Test Event in Beijing. Having ridden for Hyper in the past, this partnership, for Donny, has roots that date back to the early 90’s.