The 2007 UCI World BMX Championships are being held in Victoria next week and the Nanaimo BMX Association is doing what it can to help. The event will run from the 26th of July to the 29th. Many of the riders in the competition will hold a pre-event practice session at the Nanaimo BMX track at Beban Park on the 22nd and the 23rd.
The Extreme Dirty Weekend will be hitting Brighton Seafront on May bank holiday weekend, the 26th – 27th of May. This year the event is doubling in size and will be the biggest action sports and music festival to ever happen on the South Coast.
Alpine Director Jesse Hunt stated that the Olympian Tom Rothrock (Cashmere, WA) has decided to retire after eight seasons with the U.S. Ski Team. Rothrock, a 2002 Olympic skier and former Western regional slalom and giant slalom junior champion, had four World Cup top-10 results in his career. He was named to his third consecutive World Championships Team this past winter.
This portable plastic splint takes up a small space inside a backpack but brings big relief when holding a broken limb together long enough to get medical help and providing soothing warmth in the meantime. This special plastic fuses itself together in about five minutes using the same chemical-reactive heat technology used in hand warmers.
The city of Alabaster has landed a national skateboarding event. The Pat Wachter Pro Bowl Contest will be April 28-29 at the city’s skate park at Veterans Park off Alabama 119. Wachter, of Florence, is one of Alabama’s first professional skateboarders. The event will bring some of the top skateboarders in the nation to Alabaster, said Larry Vann, director of the Parks and Recreation Department. The event is expected to draw fans from within and outside the state, he said.