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(09.12.01)

RYAN NYQUIST WINS GOLD IN GRAVITY GAMES BIKE STREET COMPETITION
Dave Osato Takes Silver and Chad Kagy Wins Bronze

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Ryan Nyquist (Greenville, NC) won his first Gravity Games Gold Medal in Skateboard Street, after consecutive silver's in 1999 and 2000. Last year's Gold Medal winner Dave Osato (Port Coquitlam, BC) won the silver and Chad Kagy (Gilroy, CA) won the bronze.

One of the best and most versatile BMX riders, Nyquist was the only competitor to compete in all the Bike events (Dirt, Street and Vert) at the 2000 Gravity Games. In 1999 he gold at both Gravity and the X-Games in Bike Dirt and was the only rider to place in the top-10 in Dirt, Vert and Street at the X-Games.

BIKE STREET
The first organized Bike Street contests took place in the early 1980s in cement skateparks on the West Coast. In 1984, the American Freestyle Association (AFA) was formed and it held two major flatland and ramp events in California. After the AFA held its last contest in 1989, the sport entered a recession, until 1992, when Mat Hoffman organized the Bicycle Stunt (BS) Series, which included Vert, Mini-Street, and Flatland categories. The sport has been on the rise ever since.

In the Street competition, riders do runs through a skatepark style street course and are judged by an overall impression of how well they rode. Street contests incorporate skills from all types of riding - Vert, Dirt and Flatland. Difficulty of tricks is rewarded, as is flow, speed and course utilization.

The Gravity Games are the most-attended, highest-rated action sports event in the world. The 2000 Gravity Games drew nearly 370,000 spectators to Providence and was nationally televised on NBC. The Gravity Games are recognized as the premier sport, music and lifestyle festival with over 250 athletes from 17 countries competing in a variety of events, including Aggressive Inline Skating, Bike, Downhill Skateboarding, Freestyle Motocross, Skateboarding, Street Luge and Wakeboarding. Each year, over 60,000,000 people in the U.S. alone participate in the sports featured at the Gravity Games.

Top-level Gravity Games sponsors include: Irish Spring, Lorillard, Mongoose, Norelco, Powerade, Speed Stick and Toyota. For more information on the Gravity Games or any athlete, call 1-888-4-GRAVTY or log on to the Gravity Games' critically acclaimed web site at gravitygames.com.

2001 GRAVITY GAMES BIKE STREET FINAL RESULTS

1. RANK NAME FINAL ROUND SCORE
2. Ryan Nyquist (Greenville, NC) 87.90
3. Dave Osato (Port Coquitlam, BC) 87.40
4. Chad Kagy (Gilroy, CA) 87.30
5. Allan Cooke (Huntington Beach, CA) 85.90
6. Colin Mackay (Brisbon, AUS) 85.80
7. Mike Laird 84.40
8. Dennis McCoy (Kansas City, MO) 84.10
9. Corey Martinez 83.50
10. Rob Darden 83.20
11. Rob Nolli (Orlando, FL) 82.8

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