I’m a huge fan of girls surfing. Now, I’m not tracking down Steph Gilmore for autographs or anything (hard to get near her after the bar-to-the-head incident), I just think their being in the ocean is terrific. They mellow out lineups and look pretty and are generally graceful (on longboards). It’s no different in big waves. They mix it up. Ride cool pink boards and are wetsuited and booted and make waves look crazy-big against their slight figures.
But besides Maya Gabeira, you probably don’t know many of them. Every time you mention a big-wave girl’s name you have to qualify it with “that big-wave chick.†That’s a shame. Because any woman who willingly immerses herself among the chest-pounding apes  … Pictures & More
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Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid fastest and most economical GT car
Stuttgart. A successful season finale for Porsche: At the 1,000 kilometre race in Zhuhai/China, the Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid impressed once again with its performance and efficiency. The innovative sports car from Weissach, piloted by Porsche works drivers Joerg Bergmeister (Germany) and Patrick Long (USA), was by far the fastest GT vehicle in the field at its eagerly awaited premiere in Asia. Porsche factory drivers Marc Lieb (Germany) and Richard Lietz (Austria) claimed second place in the GT2 class with the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR on China’s oldest race track. With this result, they secured the team championship for their Felbermayr-Proton squad at the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, run for the first time this year.
“The first race in China with the 911 GT3 R Hybrid was a complete success … Pictures & More
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Imagine blisters the size of silver dollars, climbing 200,000 feet through the Rocky Mountains on a mountain bike, pushing it up snow-lined passes and rocky gorges, then long arid desert rides in the middle of nowhere to some Mexican border town 2,700 miles south.
Get it? If not, you might want to check out “Ride the Divide,†the cinematic story of three mountain bikers who set out to ride the Tour Divide, said to be the toughest mountain bike race on the planet  … More
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Greg Long plans his life and surfing adventures from a spartan garage apartment in San Clemente, Calif., about a mile from his boyhood home. On a recent afternoon, Long, a fit and wiry 25-year-old, tracked a major storm on his laptop in order to time a trip to Hawaii.
Scheduling surfing competitions is often subject to nature, and this week a storm in the Pacific was expected to send mammoth waves to Hawaii’s Waimea Bay, conditions necessary to contest the Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau, one of surfing’s most prestigious events … More
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