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LG Action Sports World Tour Paris Event Recaps
Skateboarding Recaps:
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September 2, 2006 |
Vert
Prelims in the City of LOVE! Ahhhhh Paris:
Skateboard Vert Prelims Recap
With love (and skaters) in the air and the majesty of the Eiffel
Tower in full view, our skateboard vert contest commenced. The weather
report showed a storm on the horizon and the chance of Sunday being
rained out, so all the skaters knew it would have to be an all-out
battle... And some were up for the challenge.
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September 3, 2006 |
Tobias Does Paris... With a Skateboard!:
Skateboard Street Finals Recap
Juergen Horrwarth, Chris Oliver and a group of French National finalists throw down in the most intense contest Paris has ever witnessed. Top honors go to none other than Munich's own Tobias Albert who celebrated his new baby with a perfect run.
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September 3, 2006 |
Ringstrom Rings the Victory Bell in Paris:
Skateboard Vert Finals Recap
High winds and dark clouds have been the ongoing theme for each of the finals on our last two LG Action Sports World Tour stops . . . Paris Vert finals was no exception.
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September 2, 2006 |
France Amateur
National Skateboard Championships:
Contest Recap
There were twenty-two riders in the contest, broken into two groups
after scoring- eighteen and over and seventeen and under. The standouts
in the eighteen-and-over competition included: Studiant Da Laboulaye
who stuck a nice nollie 180 heelflip on the quarter pipe and then
nailed a kickflip to fakie on the opposing quarter.
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BMX Recaps:
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September 3, 2006 |
Le Grande Rampe d' BMX:
BMX Vert Finals Recap
When I think of Paris, I think of the LG Action Sports World Tour. Today BMX Vert finals happened within a few hundred meters from the Eiffel Tower. Simon Tabron, Tom Haugen, Zach Shaw... If you weren't in Paris today to witness the competition, I'll tell you what happened…
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September 2, 2006 |
A View from the Tower:
BMX Street Prelims Recap
Paris is well known for tourism, and our competition was located near the most well-known tourist attraction within the city…The Eiffel Tower. With twenty international riders in the BMX street prelims, the spectators at the Trocardero witnessed a great competition. Even the tourists up in the Eiffel Tower could see the action on the street course.
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September 3, 2006 |
French Bicycles:
BMX Street Finals Recap
Paris is a beautiful city and it made a great venue for the LG Action Sports World Tour. Today’s weather held out to run BMX Park finals. BMX is a very international sport these days. In the finals, riders came all the way from Australia, Italy, Argentina, Germany, the US, and the UK. I’m not sure if any of the riders speak French, but they all put on a good show today in Paris. Here’s what happened…
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Inline Recaps:
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September 2, 2006 |
Inline In-Seine!:
Inline Vert Prelims Recap
As the LG Action Sports World Tour moves south from Berlin to Paris, we find ourselves drinking over-priced coffee and questioning our existence. France is a country of rollers and as such, they are very proud of their inline heroes: Lamine Fathi, Nicolas Mougin and, of course, the indefatigable Taïg Khris, who announced on the morning of vert prelims that he has invented a new super-secret trick. Would he throw it? “If I do a good first run,” said Taig. “Then I will do it on the first wall in my second run!”
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September 2, 2006 |
Gay Paree Inline Street :
Inline Street Prelims Recap
It was the American, 2005 LG Action Sports World Champion, Chris Haffey, who came out and stole the show in his second run. A 900 over the launch box then went on to true mizou down the rail and a disaster soul down the rail box. He had the most consistent run with the best variety of tricks. We are looking forward to the finals tomorrow when we will see if Chris Haffey can take the gold.
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September 3, 2006 |
Takeshi Takes It Back:
Inline Vert Finals Recap
After his first place finish in the prelims, Marc Englehart was up all night doing a rain dance. Still, the vert comp went off without a hitch. Taïg Khris threw down; Shane Yost killed it, but in the end, nobody could top the original golden boy, Takeshi Yasutoko.
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September 3, 2006 |
Gay Paree Inline Street :
Inline Street Finals Recap
I never would have imagined there were so many rollerblading fans in Paris, but it felt like half the city turned up for the street finals. The French love their countrymen, so Stephane Alfano and Steven Aleil were especially popular but the crowds also went crazy for the girls and pretty much anybody who rocked.
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Other Recaps and Features :
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September 2, 2006 |
Booze, Shoes, Mayhem: Ed Hardy Shoes Throws a Swank One:
Event Party Report
The French didn’t invent the velvet rope, but they sure know how to wield it. When Ed Hardy Shoes offered to throw us a party in Paris, we figured it would be a mellow affair with a lot of red wine and a little accordion music. And maybe a mime. What we didn’t know was that, because Ed Hardy is based in France, these people have it dialed
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