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This is the video for last years King of the Jibs competition. A little late but better late than never. The riding from everyone was amazing & everyone had a great time. Thanks to everyone involved.

This years King of the Jibs 2 is set for August 20th, 2011 in Melbourne, Australia at the Ausbike trade show

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Brooke Crain (Visalia, Calif./Haro-Rockstar) gave the United States its first championship class medal of these UCI BMX World Championships winning the silver in the junior women’s division of the new Time Trial Superfinal on Friday. Crain’s performance qualified her for Saturday’s main event where she’ll be joined by 23 additional Americans in pursuit of the world number one in elite and junior men’s and women’s BMX.

In all 24 Americans, more than any other national aside from France, posted initial time trial runs fast enough to put them in the top half of their respective divisions and move them through to Saturday’s main event   …  More

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Jamie Bestwick won his fifth straight gold medal and eighth overall in BMX Vert on Friday, narrowly defeating Steve McCann in a wild, can-you-top-this final that featured a number of rarely seen tricks landed in succession.

Bestwick won with a two-run score of 92 points, two better than McCann’s 90-point, silver-medal effort. He clinched gold with a   …  More

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The United States was again the most medal winning nation on day two of competition at the 2011 UCI BMX World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark. Riders age 15 and up competed for gold in nine different challenge classes with the USA coming away with four world titles.

American riders Sean Gaian (Santee, Calif.), Felicia Stancil (Lake Villa, Ill.), Stephen Larralde (Riverside, Calif.) and Matt Pohlkamp (Cincinnati, Ohio) scored the four American medals, all in the form of gold, in the older junior and masters categories on Thursday. Those four combined with yesterday’s seven-gold medal performances bring the U.S. total to 11; more than any other nation.

Stancil secured her eighth world title at only age 16 dominating that division on the women’s side. Shayona Glynn (Norco, Calif.) just missed sharing the podium with the Illinois superstar, finishing sixth. In the 15 year-old boys division Sean Gaian (Santee, Calif.) edged Denmark’s Chris Tetche Christensen to earn his rainbow stripes. Meghan Matthews (Manteca, Calif.) nearly added to the U.S medal total but had to settle for fourth in the 17 girls event   …  More

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