Skateboarding Vert Prelims
The crowds nearly brought down the house when they announced the beginning of the skateboard vert comp. They screamed, applauded and clapped their thunder sticks together in anticipation of the prelim event. » Read more

Amateur BMX Street Finals
The ramps built, the lights wired, and the cameras finally in place, the LG Action Sports World Championships kicked off the weekend with a sick amateur BMX street contest. » Read more

BMX Street Finals: There's a New Kaiser in Town
As soon as they opened the doors to the Manchester Arena, the crowds stampeded for a seat. They bought beer, shouted chants and generally settled into an English state of unruliness. With the passion the English people bring to their sporting events, it wasn’t such an irrational fear that the hooligans would bring down the house. » Read more

Inline Vert Finals: And the New World Champion Is. . . Still A Yasutoko!
It felt like a family reunion. Skaters who hadn’t seen each other in months hugged and chatted on the deck before the comp started. Marco de Santi took a break from Cirque du Soleil rehearsal. Ayumi Kawasaki made the long haul from Osaka, Japan. And Marc Englehart put his skates on for the first time since twisting his knee nearly a month ago. » Read more

Skateboarding Vert Finals: Pierre Luc And The PRO-tagonist
The crème de la crème of the skate vert world was in Manchester, riding for $100,000 in cash. With so much money on the line, anything could have happened at the 2005 LG Action Sports World Championships. So it came as no surprise that the guys who we expected to throw everything down came up short, and the guys who had nothing to lose pulled through. » Read more

BMX Vert Finals: For Queen and Country: Bestwick's Victory
Holding a BMX vert event in England is what it must have been like to stage a gladiator fight in old Rome: loud, exciting, a total massacre. As fond as the English are of their sports heroes, they could have two better icons than Simon Tabron and Jamie Bestwick . And they know it too. I overheard two gentlemen in the Arena, drinking pints and comparing Bestwick to cricket champions and soccer stars. » Read more

Inline Street Finals (M & W) Infallible Fallon and Haffey's Repeat
Coming off the back of an unbelievable prelim comp, there was no way the final could have been anywhere near as exciting. But it was even more so. For starters, it began with one of the best women’s competitions ever staged.
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Skateboarding Street Finals: Wagner's Composition
At the end of the day, Sunday, nobody expected much of a crowd for the skate street comp, but the Arena was practically sold out. People had come from all over the UK to watch the best skaters in the world on the LGASC street course. And they weren’t disappointed. » Read more