Queensland Association of Bodyboarding along with Burleigh Bodyboard Shop, Bodyboarders Surf Co, Inverted Bodyboard Stores are presenting the first event on the 2010 Rebel Sport Pro Tour.
International riders like current World Champion Jeff Hubbard (Hawaii) Amaury Laverhne (Re-Union Isle) Pierre Louis Costes (France) and 9 times world champion Mike Stewart will all be competing as they head down under for the Soldiers Beach Pro … Details
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Lance Armstrong looked his age when he failed to follow the main pack in the first stage of the Criterium International on Saturday.
The 38-year-old American, seven times a Tour de France champion, finished four minutes 51 seconds off the pace after struggling in the closing 14.2-km final ascent to the Col de l’Ospedale.
Armstrong’s early-season preparations were then called into question when he crossed the finish line in the shade of stone pines above the sunbathed bay of Porto Vecchio … Details
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After experiencing the high point of the FIA World Rally Championship season in Mexico earlier this month, BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team journeys to the lowest point on earth in the Middle East next week. The squad, which leads the manufacturers’ standings with the record-breaking Focus RS World Rally Car after two of 13 rounds, tackles the Jordan Rally (1 – 3 April) which is based 420 metres below sea level on the arid shores of the Dead Sea.
The rally debuted in the WRC in 2008 when it became the first round hosted by an Arab country since 1976. Ford drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Jarmo Lehtinen won two years ago and the Finns, along with team-mates and fellow countrymen Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila, have their sights set on another strong performance in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan …Â Details
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CONCORD, N.C. — Screaming up a hill on the 91 east, Ashley Force Hood was running blind as she prepared to descend into one of the valleys that litter Southern California’s labyrinth freeways.
As she reached the crest, a sea of brake lights suddenly appeared below.
Force Hood immediately reached up to punch an overhead button that would deploy the parachutes in her Ford F-150 — and started laughing … Details
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