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Thirty-Five times world champion, Bjorn Dunkerbeck claims the final event crown, but it’s Antoine Albeau who walks away with the last race of the season and the 2010 title.
With the possibility that the wind would be more suitable for the discipline of freestyle today, the world’s most tricked up windsurfers arrived at the beach at dawn, only to be greeted by almost exactly the same conditions that had prevented them from taking to the water the past few days.
After a couple of hours of trying to make the most of what the weather had brought, the organisers decided to switch over to slalom. Many of the more experienced sailors in the fleet opposed the decision having been tested to their limits over the past few days in the brutal conditions dealt out by the North Sea. However … Details
Did he do it? Is Conan Gay bound for the Guinness Book of World Records?
Not quite, the Eugene skateboarder reported Saturday.
Gay was hoping to make it into the record book for the longest distance covered by skateboard in 24 hours. The current record is 242 miles. He skated  … Details
McKENZIE PASS — There’s Conan the Barbarian, Conan O’Brien and Arthur Conan Doyle.
And now, when it comes to famous Conans, there’s Conan the Skateboarder. But the question is: Can he also become Conan the World Record Holder come 2:15 p.m. today?
“I think I can,†Conan Gay said. “I’ve been training for over a year for this.â€
This is the 38-year-old Eugene man’s attempt to ride his skateboard more than 242 miles — the current world record — in 24 hours. But it’s more than that, Gay said. In fact, it’s mostly about getting more exposure for the city of Eugene’s proposed skate park under the Washington-Jefferson Bridge, the ambitious almost-million-dollar vision known as Dreamland … Details