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In BMX Dirt, Nyquist, 27, secured his first Tour win this season with his first 720 barspin in competition. He scored a 96.25 on his second run to beat the Panasonic Open winner, Anthony Napoliton, 20, of Youngstown, OH. Napoliton scored a 94.00 and in third 21-year-old Luke Parslow scored 93.25.

"It's crazy, I feel like I won my first contest. I'm so happy," said Nyquist. "I just found out that I'm the oldest guy on the course. The young guys are pulling the hardest tricks and it seems like war out there."

Dew Tour Denver Dirt results:

1st Nyquist, Ryan 96.25 pts.
2nd Napolitan, Anthony 94 pts.
3rd Parslow, Luke 93.25 pts.

BMX Street Finals Amsterdam, Netherlands - July 14, 2006
1 Tobias Wicke Falkensee, Germany 24
2 Ben Hennon England
3 Mark Koenig Dietzenbach
4 Senad Grosic Untertullnerbach, AUT
5 Koji Kraft Addison, IL
6 Daniel Wedemeijer, Holland
7 Pim van den Bos, Holland
8 Leroy Widmann, Holland
9 Markus Wilke Hamburg, Germany
10 Axel Juergens Argentina
11 Balazs Ivanfi Budapest, Hungary
12 Greg Van Tulder Grobbendonk, Belgium
13 Mark Vos Gravenpolder, Netherlands
14 Vladdie de Koning, Holland
15 Bas Brouwer, Holland
16 Soufiane Belhitti Armhem, Netherlands

With three major BMX events going on this weekend, FATBMX has landed in the South of France for the tenth edition of the FISE. Also here are Josh Nendza, Dave Freimuth, Max Vincent and 2005 winner John Heaton next to a fair bunch of European pros and some Japanese import on the flatland side. The street course is brand new and actually very interesting for the tech riders. We can't wait to see the pros shred the place to pieces. The dirt jumps look good too and it's hard to argue with the 18 meter wide Red Bull (Vertical) ramp. Riders are being flown in from the LG comp in Amsterdam to ride the beast on Sunday. The flatland takes place at the same asphalt surface but the mini spine contest is more of a joke with a three sheet wide mini at the entrance of the event site. This leaves space for improvement in years to come.

Expect FATBMX to post updates over the weekend and with a bit of luck we'll get you the 411 on the LG comp in Amsterdam and the Dew Tour in Denver as well.

ELITE MEN
1 Arturs Matisons (LAT) 2 Ivo Lakucs (LAT) 3 Artis Zentins (LAT) 4 Pablo Guitierrez 5 Henrik Baltzersen 6 Rob Van Den Wildenberg 7 Florent Boutte 8 Kelvin Beatty 9 Arnaud Dubois 10 Manuel De Vecchi 11 Maris Strombergs 12 Lukas Tamme 13 Jerome Leocadie 14 Sebastien Paradis 15 Arno Kanis 16 Jeremy Chaffot 17 Damien Godet 18 Raymon Van Der Biezen 19 Frank Heijne 20 Ivo Van Der Putten

The Dew Action Sports Tour, the only season-long professional multi-sport tour in action sports, today announced the winner of the PlayStation(r) Trick of the Week Award from the Panasonic Open. Voting began after competitions ended on Sunday, June 25. Fans were able to view video clips and vote online at dewactionsportstour.com until Sunday, July 2. Fans selected Ryan Nyquist as the PlayStation(r) Trick of the Week winner after he performed a barspin no-footed can-can during the BMX Dirt Finals. Nyquist finished the contest in fourth place and is one of the top competitors in the Dew Tour BMX Dirt competition.

"I'm really excited to win! The barspin no-footed can-can is something I've been working on for a while. I'm also excited to be in the running for trick of the year," said Nyquist.

Nyquist faced stiff competition for the PlayStation(r) Trick of the Week Award. Daniel Dhers, a BMX Park competitor, completed a 360 no-footed can-can tailwhip during the BMX Park Finals.

I was suprised that no one had tried it before, but after visiting two places no one had really been to before it also made sense to go back to an old friend but do something we also hadn't. Fact is I hate rental vehicles; unless you get yourself a closed back 7.5 tonne shutter van they're not really the reminder of getting your friends together and going off somewhere I like. So buying something always appealed. There you get two options, buy something decent and hang on to it afterwards, or buy something of a heap and just do whatever with it.

I didn't really know what would be the end option as we started looking, fact is we'd been looking last year as well but decided against it. It's the kind of thing that you get sucked into, with an open scope for any vehicle and Chris from Hotwheels also got sucked into digging up some weird stuff. Somehow part of the tour ended up just being looking for the right cars. We looked at everything from Mercs to Capri's - which would have made at least one team member real happy. I looked at old library buses, Ice cream vans and battered old camper vans from the 60's.

BMX Vert Results:

1 Jam down, now only 3 to go. Just a quick reminder that the Peterborough Y2SK8 Backyard jam qualifier is only one week away! Make sure you keep next weekend free because it is going to be amazing. There are prizes galore for the top 5 qualifying under 14s and the top 10 qualifying over 14s. As I am sure you already know, the only way you can enter the Etnies Backyard Jam in Sheffield is to qualify. So what are you waiting for?

Name: Dustin Guenther
Age: 26
Hometown: Vancouver BC, Canada

Who did you grow up riding with?
Dustin: When I first started riding it was with Nathan Penonzek & a couple other friends just outside of Vancouver. Then, when I moved to Vancouver it was Ron Mercer then down the line to Osato, Miron, Enns, Rob Sigaty & a lot of the badass's around Vancouver.

Do you feel you've been in the shadow of Miron, Osato, Enns as far as coverage is concerned?
Dustin: I wouldn't say I feel shadowed by those guys, each one of those guys is an amazing rider with different talents. I'm not the most competitive person in the world so I'm psyched to be able to have the chance to ride with all of them.....to be honest I've never thought about it.

Hmmm, whatever but JT came through again. Props for that. Check it out if you're 21 or older. Word.