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<description>Vince has been covering action sports for ESPN since 1998 (that makes him, like, old and stuff). He is not the funniest man in the industry, but he <i>has</i> interviewed Mike Mason. Look for Vince's FMX coverage to be ramping up.</description>
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<description><![CDATA[Travis Pastrana speaks on the record (and on camera)! Pastrana is preparing for his first foray into X Games Best Trick since 2006, when he struck gold with the first double backflip thrown in competition. While he hasn't exactly been secretive about his plans, he hasn't talked about them on the record, either. Until now.While competing at the New England Forest Rally over the weekend of July 18-19, Pastrana shared his plans on camera. Here's the transcript. The short version? Travis' entry into...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:41:29 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Three-time X Games Big Air gold medalist Danny Way (age 35) has dropped out of X Games Big Air in order to focus completely on the X Games debut of Big Air Rail Jam, though he'll remain involved in XG Big Air as an announcer. Danny sees the Rail Jam as the next step in the advancement of skateboarding and said his whole mission is the progression he can bring to that event. "I'm skating the Rail Jam, so obviously I'm not retired," Way said. "It's not about me, me, me. It's about everyone else getting...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:19:02 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When 18-year-old Alex Perelson became the fourth (and youngest) vert skater to land a 900, en-route to his first major competition victory at last week's Maloof Money Cup, Andy Macdonald was cheering as loud as anyone. "I've been skating with him since he was a little kid. We all know how talented he is, and that when he got all the physical and mental pieces together, he was going to win a big contest. It wasn't a surprise," says Macdonald. There's no question Perelson is now the standard bearer...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:51:25 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The third person in history to land the double backflip and the first person to land it in a freestyle competition, Australia's Cameron Sinclair, 25, has the double backflip on lockdown. On a trick once deemed the most difficult in freestyle motocross, Sinclair lobs it up in the air and rides it out so seamlessly that he makes it look like a walk in the park.A former demo rider with little competition experience, Sinclair grew up racing until he was 19. In 2002, he started "mucking around" doing...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:32:14 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Coming into the 2008 X Games BMX Street contest, Texan Aaron Ross was a strong medal favorite. Between his technical power moves and the three podiums he had already secured in X Games International competition (silvers in Mexico and Dubai in 2007 and bronze in Brazil in April '08), most had him pegged for another top-3 finish. Unfortunately, Ross was in for some bad luck, and he failed to make the final, finishing ninth."I've never had one of those days at a contest," Ross remembers. "I had so much...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:04:27 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[An AMA Supercross Class and X Games rookie, Matt Boni is having the best season of his short professional career in 2009. He struggled through the first two months of the year but switched teams to Hart &amp; Huntington halfway through the AMA Supercross campaign and still was able to finish 11th overall and win the Pro Privateer Challenge, awarded to the top finishing privateer in the AMA Supercross Championship. At 6-ft. 3-in., Boni is one of the tallest riders on the whole circuit. Boni began 2009...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:33:47 PDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In late September 2008, Daniel Dhers found himself at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas. It was a long way from his hometown of Caracas, Venezuela, but he was getting used to the traveling. The skills he had developed over the previous five years at the well-appointed facilities of Woodward Camp had already earned him adventures all around the world, along with two X Games gold medals and two Dew Tour year-end titles in BMX Park competition. He was chatting with one of his idols, Dave Mirra, at Ride...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:59:04 PDT</pubDate>
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