There were many winners for different reasons at Ultimate Boarder’s surfing competition on Thursday, as Tom Curren beat the field in the team division, Gabe Garcia won the individual title and New Jersey’s Shayne Pospisil grabbed hold of the overall lead in this board-riding extravaganza.
Ultimate Boarder, designed to crown the top performing athlete in snowboarding, surfing and skateboarding in one competition, was conceived by Goleta native Tim Hoover in 2008 and has attracted both returning competitors and new big names in 2009. With Thursday’s surfing leg completed, only Saturday’s skateboarding event remains.
While the snowboarding takes place at Bear Mountain, the surfing and skateboarding portions unfold in Ventura.
Santa Barbara’s Tom Curren… Details & pictures
Twenty-three electric motorcycles will line up for the start of the world’s first zero-emissions grand prix, a 37-mile dash around the famed Isle of Man that’s drawn riders no less impressive than the machinery.
Eighteen teams have answered the challenge thrown down by British entrepreneur Azhar Hussain, who founded the TTXGP motorcycle race to prove going green doesn’t mean going slow. Teams will descend on the Isle of Man – home of one of the oldest and most storied races in all of motorsports – from as far away as India for the June 12 event.
“We are thrilled with the high level of interest the TTXGP has generated globally, and the superb quality of the teams that will be involved,” Hussain said in a statement.
The bulk of the teams come from the United States and the U.K, but other countries we’ll see on the grid include India, Germany, Austria and, of course, the Isle of Man… Details, pictures, teams and riders
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He sat on the side of a small goat path of a road, with his left shoulder slumping, grimacing in pain.Â
It was only the first day of the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, a five-stage road race in northern Spain.Â
Near the end of the first stage, Lance Armstrong got caught in a funnel of riders jockeying for position, hit a rider in front of him and went flying over the handlebars.
As he sat there, he later told the Associated Press via a teleconference from Austin, Texas, “You’re laying there, and you sort of ask yourself, ‘What the hell am I doing here?'”Â
Indeed, after three years of the bike, coming back to the sport he once dominated was proving to be a tougher task than he originally thought.Â
At 37 years old, the body…Â Details