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June was one busy month. On the road every weekend now that the contest season is in full swing. Here's some random HARO related news: - First up the injury updates. Ben Shenker (Hungary) broke his wrist a few weeks ago at the first stop of the Local Heroes tour in Hungary. He did a simple roll back and stepped off. Ben is now at RedBull's raining center in Austria to see if he speed up things to start riding again without taking any unnecessary risks. He's been digging some trails near his house with the cast on so he has something to ride when he's good to go. Second team rider that is injured is HARO Europe's Stefan Geisler. He broke three bones doing a vert demo in Italy and got some pins inserted to help the healing process. The pins were removed a few days ago and OBG is riding MTB and spending time in the gym every day to make sure he's ready when he can hop back on that Carolina blue Mirra Pro. Mike Cleveland (HARO USA) is out for a while with a broken hand.

Round 7 and 8 of the European UCI championships took place in Cheddar, UK last weekend. Thomas Allier is back from his nasty crash earlier this year and should be ready for the UCI BMX worlds in Bercy in 4 weeks time. Elite men round 7 (Saturday) 1. Thomas ALLIER 2. Dale HOLMES 3. Arno KANIS Elite Men round 8 (Sunday) 1. Ivo LAKUCS 2. Kelvin BATEY 3. Thomas ALLIER Photo courtesy of BMXPix.org

I'm in the Mercure Eiffel Tower hotel writing this story on the LG Paris stop. It's Sunday and it started raining right when the pro/am street contest was about to start this morning at 10am. Hung-over Koji was stoked about that one. The weather forecast doesn't look too good at the moment and the whole day is a possible rain out for Sunday. The vert riders knew this was a possibility and they went all out on Saturday thinking the prelims might be the final with the rain coming in on Sunday.

We would like to invite you all to the fn|05 freestyle-night in the jumpin, the biggest waterramp in europe in Mettmenstetten, Switzerland. After the big success in the last year with more than 1500 spectators, the freestyle-night will be the third time on July, the 9th. Because of contracts with a lot of new sponsors, the event will be even bigger and more attractive for spectators and riders. Like last year, you can fight in the disciplines bmx, snowboard, freeskiing and aerials for the famous freestyle-night-crown. The eight best riders in the qualification round, which starts at 7 p.m., in each discipline, will arrive the big final rounds in the evening. Freestyle.ch speaker Chris Bachmann will animate the big crowd. The riders will fight in three ko-rounds for the win. You are judged by five good judges.

Pennywise new CD "The Fuse" out in Europe now! Yes Pennywise is touring Europe at the moment visiting Amsterdam this Thursday but we have to miss them because of the Rebeljam in Berlin. We take this CD on the trip so we can enjoy the 15 new songs in the plane. The Hermosa Beach locals were speeding things up with recording this album, as Jim Lindberg says: "We made us put more energy into our performances" and it shows, this album is the real deal.

Fans Choose Scotty Cranmer As Winner After Perfect Turn Down Front Flip During BMX Park Finals The Dew Action Sports Tour, the first-ever, season-long professional multi-sport tour in action sports, announced the first winner of the PlayStation® Trick of the Week Award. Voting began after all competitions at the Dew Action Sports Tour’s Panasonic Open ended Sunday, June 12. Voting was held online at www.dewactionsportstour.com until Sunday, June 19. Scotty Cranmer won Trick of the Week with his perfect Turn Down Front Flip. “I’m so psyched that I won the PlayStation Trick of the Week award,â€? said Cranmer. “It’s awesome that people voted and appreciated my front flip.â€?

NOMINEES ANNOUNCED FOR 13TH ANNUAL ESPY AWARDS Dave Mirra Among Nominees for Best Action Sports Athlete; Fans to Determine Winners ESPN will Televise 13th Annual Celebration from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre. Sunday, July 17, 2005 at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN The 2005 ESPY Awards will gather sports and entertainment celebrities to recognize top achievements, relive memorable moments and salute the best performers. Actor Matthew Perry will host the show and be joined by musical guest Destiny's Child.

Fronting the most packed issue to date is Stuart Dolley, manualling one of Melbourne's most pristine masonry constructions shot by Zac Musarsa. The last few months has seen an absolutely huge amount of jams, comps and DVD releases from coast to coast, many of which feature in this issue. A taste of the mag includes the Martial One World Ban jam, Shane Badman on the philosophy of riding, the BMX Games, Heavy Metal Heroes pt 11, Adelaide's 20X2 comp and the lowdown on the 3 new Australian designed signature frames from Clint Millar, Mike Daly and Daniel Wallis. Behind Bars profiles Ben Savage, Phil Johnston and Josh Willet proving that the underground is definitely coming up.

We might as well do some self promoting by announcing this summer's FAT-JAM date. Saturday 20 August is Paul's Birthday and also the main day of the annual jam that will go deep into the night. Everyone is invited to do some riding on the Sugar Hills trails at the Valkendijk on Saturday and feel free to bring the drinks and the barbeque. The chilling factor will be high once again in Aarle-Rixtel so prepare for that. Starts at 14:00hr. Saturday night will be the Heavy Metal party at OJA. Dress to impress. Black t-shirt, tight jeans, white socks and sneakers. Wigs and make-up are allowed. Get ready for the Metal classics. Those who remember the night at the World's in Portimao in 1998 know what they've got coming. Better get ready for this. Beers are 1 Euro per bottle and if you have never been to OJA before, it's time to come over.

Tony Hawk's promise of this year's Boom Boom Huck Jam going bigger, faster and badder officially came true last night as the tour rolled into its 5th city, Anaheim, CA. The crowds were hyped, the riders were out of their minds and the energy from the Arrowhead Pond could be felt all the way to Disneyland. Before the show even starts there is in an interactive village that, although it said you needed a show ticket to get in, basically anyone could get into it. And as we were walking to the village, I spot