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The flatland in Brazil demonstrates great evolution. Currently some athletes compete in international tests with excellent results. In 2006 happens de first national championship with 40 participants, organized for Confederação Brasileira de Ciclismo (CBC) with promotion of the specialized site BMX Press . The number of practitioners of the modality grew significantly and they call the attention the media. “Finally we popularize the sport”, says Gustavo Dias, director of CBC. Dias also commemorates the increase in the number of sponsors. “To invest in flat, currently, offers financial return”, he affirms. With the consolidation of the modality, the CBC decided to demonstrate its social responsibility. 

This year's LG Tour stop in Paris was way better than last year, the street course was a bit better and the Vert ramp was the same but the riders made it a better contest than last year.
Street/Park: Although a very small street course it was still fun to ride, it was so tight that Dave Dillewaard looked bigger than the park but managed to win the first price again. More riders showed up this time and we even had 5 Dutch guys in prelims, Barry Kohne didn't impress the judges this time, Mark Vos showed he is a good rider but not in contests, Daniel Wedemeijer rode well and Pim v/d Bos was the best from the Dutch with a 12th place, just missing the finals with his dialed Front & Back & Tail whips.

Vert final results LG Action Sports World Tour, Paris, France.

1. Simon Tabron, UK
2. Zach Shaw, UK
3. Jay Eggleston, USA
4. Tom Haugen, USA.
5. Mike Mancuso, USA
6. Jason Branham, USA
7. Matt Fairbairn, Australia
8. Benni Kopp, Germany
9. Koji Kraft, USA
10. Tom Stober, USA
11. Tim Eichert, Germany
12. Chris Mahoney, England
13. Eduardo Terreros, Spain
14. Jean Marie Baertsch, Switzerland

Results Park finals LG Action Sports World Tour Paris, France:

1. Dave Dillewaard, Australia
2. Alessandro Barbero, Italy
3. Chris Mahoney, England
4. Ben Hennon, England
5. Corey Martinez, USA
6. Tom Haugen, USA
7. Koji Kraft, USA
8.Benny Korthaus, Germany
9. Axel Juergens, Argentina
10. Markus Wilke, Germany
11. Brendan Jones, Australia

Axel Juergens, Senad Grosic and Ben Shenker were in Croatia last weekend for the Pannonian Challenge 7. Once again they had a great time and everyone rode great.

-Axel did barrels, 3whips, and treetaps for 3rd place.
-Senad did flipwhips, hang5s, and a 5whip to a bank; 2nd.
-Ben Shenker did no-hand flips, manuals on the wallride, fufanus on backrails and finished first.

Just so you know.

When was the last time that the vert contest had more entries than the street contest at the same event?  With Jann Valenta and Steve McCann dropping out, the vert contest in Berlin in front of the Brandenburger Tor still had 15 riders on the decks.  With the vert prelims getting rained out it was straight to the finals.  2 runs each, best run counts.  John Parker and  Peter Geys both only managed to pull off one run and left the ramp injured.  Parker in fact was still injured coming into the event with a fractured hand. He had not taken his bike out of the box since the previous LG event in England and gave it a try anyways.  Peter Geys left the ramp with a hurt shoulder but had his wife  and the kids there to treat him right. 

Tim Eichert's second run was cut short when he  strangely crashed going up the ramp. It bent his bike. Tim's first run was good though as he pulled the smoothest flair I've ever seen him do and did 540-s and one-hand 540-s.

For the fourth time this year there were some serious battles going on between the young Riders from the Netherlands. This time it was the BMX-finals of StreetMasters. Streetmasters is an organisation with the ambition to take streetsports as BMX, Skateboarding, Aggressive inline and more to a higher level. The qualifiers went for training on roadtrips with dutch pro-riders. The foampit training worked out well for the local boys from Rotterdam. They learnt some serious big tricks. In the final they pulled a high 720 over the box (Shannon), a backlfip on a hip (Aimy) and a huge wallride Barry Kohne-style (Selso “Kamikaze” Deluce). 

1 Dave Dillewaard Brisbane, Australia 22,  90.75
2 Tobias Wicke Falkensee, Germany 24, 90.75
3 Steven McCann Melbourne, Australia 23, 90.25
4 Tom Haugen Minneapolis, MN 30,  89.00
5 Bjorn Mager Berlin, Germany 21,  87.50
6 Alessandro Barbero Ceva, Italy 23,  87.25
7 Koji Kraft Addison, IL 23,  85.25
8 Markus Wilke Hamburg, Germany 31, 84.50
9 Sergey Geyer Delmenhorst, Germany 21, 82.50
10 Sven "Sprosse" Lehmann Berlin, Germany 18,  81.50
11 Brendan Jones Monley, Australia 23, 81.25
12 Patrick Steckelmann Brandenburg, Germany 18, 77.25 

1 Simon Tabron Newquay, England 32,   90.25
2 Zach Shaw London, England 35,    87.25
3 Tom Haugen Minneapolis, MN 30,   86.75
4 Jay Eggleston Denver, CO 34,   86.50 
5 Koji Kraft Addison, IL 23,    84.75
6 Matt Fairbairn Booragul, Australia 31,   84.50
7 Jason Branham Chicago, IL 24,   84.00
8 Tom Stober Woodward, PA 31,   83.50
9 Benni Kopp Bielefeld, Germany 28,   81.75
10 Mike Mancuso Winterville, NC 28,   81.75
11 Eduardo Terreros Getxo, Spain 32,   81.00
12 Ricardo Roich Buenos Aires, Argentina 31,   78.00
13 Tim Eichert Cologne, Germany 32,    77.00