Donny Robinson wins elite BMX world title; Day second
Adelaide, AUS (July 25, 2009) — The United States collected three medals in the elite events at the 2009 UCI BMX World Championships in Adelaide, Australia on Saturday with Olympic bronze medalist Donny Robinson (Napa, Calif.) riding to a world title in the elite men’s event.Â
After going one and two in their semifinal round, Robinson and teammate Mike Day (Santa Clarita, Calif.) repeated in the final to score the gold and silver medals ahead of bronze medalist Ramiro Marino of Argentina. Fellow American Nicholas Long (Lakeside, Calif.) was fifth in the elite men’s contest.
In the elite women’s main, Arielle Martin (Pleasant Grove, Utah) put forth the bronze medal effort for the USA while New Zealand’s Sarah Walker … Details
Well, well, there’s a sight you don’t see every day at the Tour de France: Lance Armstrong on the podium in Paris without—hold the presses—the race winner’s garish yellow jersey on his back.
Third. Not a result, in pure sporting terms, that ranks up there with the seven consecutive times he claimed the victor’s laurels on the crowd-lined Champs-Elysees, framed by the Arc de Triomphe in the background.
But how much more human.
Armstrong suffered on this Tour, the pain and effort etched into his craggy face. Like a wily fox, he used years of accumulated race smarts to compensate for what his 37-year-old body has lost in speed and resilience; a few seconds saved here, a few more clawed back there…Â Details
The race for supremacy in the 97th Tour de France started late Sunday afternoon at the ceremonial conclusion of the 96th Tour de France.Â
All it took to see this was to study Lance Armstrong’s body language as he stood stiffly, even uncomfortably, in an unfamiliar place, to the left of and slightly below his soon-to-be-former Astana teammate Alberto Contador, the man of the moment in the yellow jersey.Â
Armstrong was on the podium again – for the eighth time in 11 summers – but he wasn’t really there. Lost in thought, he almost forgot to …Â Details
Bikes Belong recently conducted a BMX Access Survey finding that a good number of skate parks don’t allow BMX freestyle use.
Nearly 100 skate parks from 30 states responded to the survey where 46 percent said they don’t allow BMX riders and 54 percent do.
“We want to improve BMX access at skate parks,†said Tim Blumenthal, executive director of Bikes Belong… DetailsÂ