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Another round in the European BMX Championships is taking place in Germany this weekend and once again Maris Strombergs made the trip over. In Weiterstadt, on Saturday he grabbed his first win. Will he do the same on Sunday? Check back after tomorrow's race to find out.

ELITE MEN. Saturday. Weiterstadt EC round 5.
1 STROMBERGS   Maris    Latvia   
2 TREIMANIS   Edzus    Latvia  

Monster Energy congratulates team rider Scotty Cranmer on his bronze today in BMX Freestyle Park at X Games Barcelona 2013. It’s the seventh career X Games medal for the 26 year old from New Jersey. Today’s BMX Park final event saw the top riders battling through their heats with the top six riders advancing to the final, which was set up as an 18-minute jam-style format. The top two runs for each rider counted towards their final score.

“I had to battle not only other competitors, but also the elements – it started to rain just as I started one of my runs and huge gusts of wind kept me from doing my big tricks,” said Cranmer. “It was an honor to share the podium with those guys who I’ve looked up to, and I’m happy to bring a medal home for Monster Energy.”

After he progressed strong through his heat, Cranmer went to work in the final. After sketching out on his first run he improved consistently from there, needing strong runs near the end to lock down a podium spot. His top runs were full of smooth and

Felt good to be back in the final, but the South American fans made it very special to be in Argentina for round 2 of the UCI BMX Supercross season… It was a very long travel from Amsterdam to Santiago del Estero, Argentina but it was all word it… I expected more like a vacation feeling in Argentina, but I saw a different world with much poverty and some hectic/ dangerous traffic in the city. When I see those things I appreciate my own life even more, because I realize it’s not the same everywhere.

BMX Park was on the program today in Barcelona at the X-Games. It was all about Gary Young. The Dirtbrother finally grabbed the gold that he'd been hunting for so long. Ryan Nyquist once again grabbed a medal (silver) with last year's LA X-Games gold medalist Scotty Cranmer in third.

BMX PARK X-Games BCN results:
1     Gary Young     R38.00    37.00    37.00    13.00    -   75.00
2     Ryan Nyquist     R37.00    36.00    35.00    34.00    -   73.00

Name: Andrew Clifton-Brown (I took part of my wife’s name as I always hated the surname 'Brown')
Hometown: Kent
Occupation: IT/Photographer (freelance)

Let's start off with a big question, what have you been up to the last 10 years?
Andy Brown: Married to my best friend (yeah I know. Sickening but It’s true though), kids, coding and just keeping busy. Photography work is starting to come in more regularly so it pays for the kit that I buy and the occasional trip and I enjoy my life and friends. The antitheses of where I thought my life would be now.

Let's move back 25 years in time which takes us back to 1984. Was BMX a big part of your life then?
Andy Brown: It was everything to me at that time of my life.