ESPN posted the names of the riders who will be participating in this year’s X Games, check the names out after the jump. Mostly it’s the dudes you’d expect but there are a few surprises in there.
Park: Brett Banasiewcz, Drew Benzanson, Cory Bohan, Diogo Canina, Scotty Cranmer, Rob Darden, Daniel Dhers, Chris Doyle, Dennis Enarson, Ryan Guettler, Chase Hawk, Ryan Nyquist, Garrett Reynolds, Jeremiah Smith, Morgan Wade, Gary Young.
Street: Dennis Enarson, Van Homan, Brian Kachinsky, Kevin Kiraly, Corey Martinez, Ty Morrow, Garrett Reynolds, Dakota Roche , Aaron Ross, Sean Sexton, Nathan Williams.Â
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It’s the eve of Jessica Watson’s return to civilization, after seven months spent sailing around the world, and the 16-year-old Australian brims with excitement.
“It’s like the day before Christmas except I don’t ever remember getting this excited about Christmas,” she posted on her blog.
An estimated 50,000 fans will cheer as the intrepid mariner docks at the Opera House and steps wobbly from a 34-foot pink sailboat on which she will have lived, with stuffed animals as her only companions, for 210 days … Details
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The venue for the planet’s greatest event in Masters Surfing, the ISA World Masters Surfing Championship (WMSC) has been named.
The perfect waves of Santa Catalina, on the north Pacific coast of Panama will see the best over 35 year-old surfers from all over the world from August 29 to September 5.
After having an inaugural WMSC in Rincón, Puerto Rico in 2007 and a successful … Details
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