It was a case of call back the past when Latvian Maris Strombergs and Briton Shanaze Reade reclaimed the UCI BMX World Championship men's and women's titles respectively in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday - but the real hero for the partisan South African crowd was men's runner up Sifiso Nhlapo. For the local crowd the men's final result was a bitter sweet conclusion to the day's racing as they celebrated Nhlapo's silver medal with the thought about how close he came to pulling off the biggest

Elite Men:
1 4 STROMBERGS Maris LAT 38.391
2 105 NHLAPO Sifiso RSA 38.878
3 129 DAUDET Joris FRA 39.077
4 972 HAMON Thomas FRA 39.731
5 121 VAN DER BIEZEN Raymon NED 39.878
6 777 WILLERS Marc NZL 1:39.692
7 91 WILLOUGHBY Sam AUS 1:39.740
8 97 YOUNG Khalen AUS 1:39.805

Elite Women:
1 118 READE Shanaze GBR 38.819
2 96 WALKER Sarah NZL 39.915
3 11 POST Alise USA 40.443
4 19 DESPEAUX Amélie FRA 41.805
5 52 HLADÍKOVÁ Aneta CZE 42.230
6 104 BRACKEN Rachel AUS 43.031

Name: Gregor Podlesny
Age: 29
Hometown: I live in Ulm, South of Germany
Hook-ups/Sponsors: That's S&M Bikes trough G&S distribution and Schickeria-Bmx (my shop in Ulm)

The favorite list:

-Spot to ride: I loved the old Mellowpark in Berlin, Wendelstein close to Nürnberg and Street where i can find some, fast and big hopefully!
-BMX video: Hoffman Bikes Mad Matt ! way up to date back in the day!
-Website: FATBMX cause it has alot of the european scene in it, and that's what I am interrested in (friends)!
-Web video:  Every week a new one, the latest was the winner vid of France From BCNBMXPRO thing! I can't describe...
-Food:  mostly meatless, low carb and of cause I hate nuts!
-Travel destination: I've been to New Zealand 2 times for a couple

Results of from ESPN X Games 16 BMX Freestyle Street Elimination Results held at the Event Deck at L.A. LIVE on July 30, 2010. The top ten qualifiers will advance to the final round one.
Name Hometown Score
1 Ty Morrow West Palm Beach, Calif. 89.66
1 Garrett Reynolds Toms River, N.J. 89.66
1 Dennis Enarson San Diego, Calif. 89.66
4 Danny Hickerson Houston, Tex. 88.00
4 Dakota Roche Huntington Beach, Calif. 88.00
6 Josh Harrington Greenville, N.C. 87.66
7 Sean Sexton Tempe, Ariz. 86.00
8 Brad Simms Charles County, Md. 85.66
9 Brian Kachinsky Chicago, Ill. 85.00
9 Aaron Ross Corpus Christi, Texas 85.00

11 Dan Lacey Rye, United Kingdom 84.66
12 Nathan Williams Nashville, Tenn. 83.33

Monster Energy¹s Jamie Bestwick has taken Gold in BMX Vert, his incredible fourth-straight X win. Coming in as the clear-cut favorite, he earned it amidst a stacked field as the contest took over center stage at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, CA during X Games 16. Emerging from the qualifying round as the top seed, Bestwick dropped in and immediately took the lead with a solid score of 44. From then on he lead the pack with trademark smoothness and tricks on nearly every hit, forcing the other riders to play catch-up. With Bestwick throwing down tricks like downside tailwhip flairs, a double downside tailwhip, and opposite flairs, Bestwick was impossible to beat and was even allowed a victory lap on his final go (a 46 + 44 combined score).

"I always dreamed about winning the X Games and in 2000 I made it a reality," said Bestwick immediately after his win. "In 2010 I have made BMX history by obtaining the four-peat. Success like 

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Jamie Bestwick was perfection on the vert ramp Friday, taking gold to land the first four-peat in BMX Freestyle Vert Finals history during the X Games at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. "Coming into the final I knew it was going to be tough. I just reverted to how I rode in qualifying and it made it as smooth as it could be early on," Bestwick said. "I'm a competitor. I like to go out there and do a good job of representing BMX to the highest."

It was Bestwick's seventh X Games gold medal, which he won with

The bests of BMX Freestyle collide on Saturday, August 7, as Maxxis Tires presents the inaugural 2010 Trans Jam BMX Contest. Taking place in uptown Charlotte, NC, on the corner of South Tryon Street and West 3rd Street, the contest is being held in conjunction with the Presbyterian Hospital Novant Health Invitational Criterium bicycle race. Guests are welcome to attend the contest for free and witness today's top BMX ramp riders and flatlanders performing bicycle stunts high in the air and also on the ground.

According to the United States Department of the Treasury 'The law prohibits portraits of living persons from appearing on Government Securities. Therefore, the portraits on our currency notes are of deceased persons whose places in history the American people know well'. Dude was the 22nd AND 24th President, appears on the $1,000 bill, and it's doubtful many American people have even heard of Grover Cleveland. Hopefully you should be so lucky as to have a Grover