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Sven Kramer's lane change (how stupid was that!) and the 4-man bobsled pulling out of the games because the steering man was too scared. PUSSY!!! We posted some interviews that A to the Z sent over and one of the questions was about BMX in the Olympics. See what Tobias Wicke, Alessandro Barbero,  Mark Webb, Kevin Kalkoff, Bruno Hoffmann and Zach Shaw had to say on that question. You can find their interviews in the Profiler section.

FAT FAVs list this week were with the following shredders:
-Darryl Tocco
-The Machine
-Matt Fairbairn
-Jason Forde
-Keith Terra
-Chad Kerley
-Mike Spinner
and Declan Lee Books

Coming up this week expect FAT FAVs lists from: Eduardo Terreros, Ed Pollio, Jeremy Pavia, Cory Muth, Eric DeLary, Jason Minor and Oskars Zajarski.

-A press release went out regarding the 2010 IBMXFF Freestyle World's this week. Here's the most important info:

The newly opened Freestyle Park in Prague Modrany will welcome the BMX Worlds June 4-6, sanctioned by IBMXFF. The Worlds competition will be held in the 5 major disciplines of BMX Freestyle – vert, dirt, street, flatland and mini ramp. The registrations will be opened in 3 categories – masters, experts and pro.  In 2005 the BMX Worlds in Prague made a major influence on the BMX scene in the Czech Republic. It was a boost for the riders and the industry it self for a culture where freestyle BMX could have still been considered a slightly underground sport. Since then, BMX has gained its firm spot and has gained full recognition of being a true sport. We welcome the BMW Worlds after a 5 year break into a now mature BMX culture. Since then, many things have changed, and our passion for BMX freestyle is even stronger.

Marek Rejman, member of the IBMXFF says: “Right after the Worlds 2005 we decided that the new and BMX only facility need to be build to further grow BMX freestyle sport. We did not realize however, how much work and effort it would take to arrive at the final stage of our project. Worlds 2010 is a great opportunity to launch new venue. See you in June”.

The new site www.BMXWORLDSPRAGUE2010.com will be launched on March 1, 2010. Registration of riders, media and industry partners will begin then.

Pro BMX results FISE Experience round one Paris:
1- CHARVERON Maxime (Mirraco)
2- WEDEMEYER Daniel (Mankind)
3- DOREMUS Georgy (Subrosa)
4- VALENTINO Alexandre (United)
5- KHONE Barry (Mankind)
6- MAGNAN Xavier
7- GROSSI Michael
7- MASSON Greg (Eastern)
8- GENON Thomas

-Bike checks this week (stored in the Reviews file) were with Dan Lacey's signature Federal, Gary Young's Sunday, Brian Kachinski's signature DK Passport, Ondra Slez' prototype Agang, Coco Zurita's Colony and James Meliota's Fly.

-Here are the upcoming events for the next couple of weeks.
2010/02/27 - Stony Hills Trail Jam
2010/02/27 - Winterjam
2010/02/28 - Opening Flame Trails Brandevoort
2010/03/05 - Winter Nationals
2010/03/06 - Streets OF Madness #5
2010/03/13 - Verre oosten jam part 2
2010/03/20 - ASA Big Air BMX Triples
2010/03/27 - Rookie Jam
2010/03/27 - T-Mobile Local Support Dirt Challenge, Mainz/Germany
2010/04/03 - Paul's Boutique 15th Anniversary
2010/04/03 - Easter Classic
2010/04/03 - Mini FATJAM 2010
2010/04/11 - UKBFA Reunion
2010/04/18 - Helm Jam
2010/04/24 - Dorchester Skatepark Jam
2010/04/24 - All American Nationals
2010/04/25 - T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds
2010/05/02 - Flame Trails jam
2010/05/08 - Freedom Nationals
2010/05/09 - Tour Dur Laarbeek

-Video part of the week will have to go to Alex Kennedy in the NIKE 6.0/FIT Bike Co. Partners in Crime video. Check it on the FATBMX site by going here!

-We did an interview with Marc Urlich from Australia who is organizing the US vs. THEM contest which sounds like a hell of a good time. 16 names in one hat will form two teams of 8. And then it's on with all kind of comps/games. Winner takes all, and that's a check of $ 10,000.= Australian Dollars! See what names will be in that hat by reading the interview.

-FATBMX T-shirts anyone?

-Got some time on your hands? Go to the Movies section on FATBMX and watch all 45 movies we posted this week. Now if only they would work on your iphone waiting for the train would never be boring again.

-This week we got an awesome Workshop Wednesday Episode on FATBMX with Shea Nyquist, Ryan Nyquist's brother. It's one to read and order a custom belt at the same time.

-We sent out SNAFU products to 4 winners in the FATBMX Facebook Fanpage sign up competition. Congrats to those who won and thanks to everyone for becoming a friend/fan. We're getting close to the 5000 fans....

-Rally America and Dave Mirra fans listen up. Dave Mirra is about to start his Subaru engine for the second race of the year. Dave currently sits in 6th place and will be making Salem and surroundings unsafe today and tomorrow. Get off the roads.

-Team/Sponsor news:
Andy Buckworth signs with Jet Pilot
Tom Blyth on Duffs
Aiden on Deluxe
Lee Dennis on Primo Pro
Troy Merkle on Giant
Ricardo Laguna joins the Chippendales
Jack Marchant on Duffs
Sam Lowe on Primo Pro

-PRO BMX Finals Results:
1. Colin MacKay
2. Dave Dillewaard
3. Dean Manson
4. Dane Searls
5. Chris Courtenay
6. Jake May
7. Ryan Guettler

-John Paul Rogers is leaving Binghampton (FBM) next month for a new adventure somewhere warm.

-The Vans Warner SPD shoes that we put up this week are available through Paul's Boutique.

You're officially up to date now on all the BMX news. Go ride.

BdJ