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Rockstar Makita Suzuki Factory Racing's Michael Byrne picked up his first podium of the 2008 AMA Motocross season at Red Bud Track & Trail in Buchanan, Michigan, on Sunday afternoon. The Australian rider put in two strong motos, bringing home two four...

The 2008 Le Mans 24 Hours produced one of the most exciting finishes in years and ended with Team Peugeot Total securing its second consecutive second place with the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP in the famous endurance race. The N°7 car shared by Marc Gené/Nicolas Minassian/Jacques Villeneuve emerged from the rainy early morning as the [...]

Dave Molyneux and passenger Dan Sayle took an impressive runner-up finish in today's Sure Mobile Sidecar race two at the 2008 Isle of Man TT races. Following the disappointment of a 'DNF' earlier in the week, Team Molyneux Suzuki were back at the sharp end once more, battling with rivals Nick Crowe and Mark Cox [...]

Team Alstare Suzuki rider Max Neukirchner continued his good run of form with a hard-fought fourth place in race one at the Miller Motorsports Park today before following it up runner-up spot in race two. He was at the forefront in both races; had to giv...

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Valentino Rossi made another historic step in his incredible career today when he took his 90th career victory in Le Mans, equalling the record set by the great Angel Nieto, to move into second in the all-time winners list behind Giacomo Agostini. It ...

Pues sí amigos míos, RinconSEO el blog que hemos puesto en marcha para el concurso de posicionamiento de la palabra RinconSEO en Google se ha aupado a lo más alto del cajón, de momento. Esto demuestra que vamos por el buen camino y que estamos haciendo las cosas correctamente, sin prisas pero sin pausas, utilizando técnicas [...]

Hey folks! Today’s been a really really hectic day for me! I’ve been posting like crazy, trying to empty the news pool, and well, I think I did a pretty fine and dandy job! I’m ending my posting-night with the Summerboard Themes Round-Up like I promised at the bottom of our four month report card. This [...]

At the Beijing Goldenport International Circuit (lap: 2.39km) in Beijing, China, the second round of the China Circuit Championship (CCC) series for the 1600cc class was held, driver Guo Hai Sheng in the Dongfeng Nissan Ghia Team-run Nissan Tiida finishing third, grabbing his second consecutive podium since the opening round of the season. There are two [...]

At the Beijing Goldenport International Circuit (lap: 2.39km) in Beijing, China, the second round of the China Circuit Championship (CCC) series for the 1600cc class was held, driver Guo Hai Sheng in the Dongfeng Nissan Ghia Team-run Nissan Tiida finishing third, grabbing his second consecutive podium since the opening round of the season. There are two [...]

I have to admit, I really dig vWallpaper. I know it’s a battery killer, but since I don’t sit on my home screen very often — unless docked, anyway — I figure it’ll work out fine. There are a lot of great vWallpapers out there, but I have to admit, there are a lot [...]

You can set your watch to it. The closer we get to some sort of big release, the more the rumours start to fly, until we’re about a week away, at which point it all becomes a swirling vortex of speculation and complete BS. And you know what? I’m not even going to bother reporting [...]

Numerous spectators came to applaud the competitors of this first Central Europe Rally of the Dakar Series. The prize giving, of all the categories, was held in the center of Balatonfüred. The ceremony began with sunny weather however the rain was also not far off. When it was Stéphane...

David Philippaerts finished as runner-up and gained his first podium result with the YZ450FM, giving the Yamaha Monster Motocross Team their maiden silverware of the FIM 2008 World Championship, after just one moto in a torrid and swampy Grand Prix of...

It’s your turn to step up to the Podium and ask us some questions! We’re here to help you, and we’ve been here to help you since day one. To make things a little easier for all of us, we’ve gone and bought a nice Desk from Ikea, and slapped it right beside our dearest Podium. We should [...]

Today Räikkönen demonstrated a virtually flawless driving. His car looked extremely stable and highly competitive. His finishing 19.5 seconds ahead Robert Kubica talks a lot.It's a pity that Felipe Massa was not able to finish the race. Moreover, the Brazilian driver was quite ahead of BMW's Kubica when Massa made a mistake, which cost the Brazilian to retire from the race altogether. If not this unfortunate fact, the race would have been perfect for Ferrari. But, nothing is perfect in this world and I only hope that Ferrari will improve from the race to the race.Getting back to Kubica, the young driver has demonstrated the great skill of driving. It must also be mentioned that BMW has fantastically improved their cars and I will dare to say that the Formula 1 cars of BMW are on a par wi

Touch Podium now has a dedicated page with a list of all installer.app repository sources available (that we know of). Thus far, there are 106 sources including the other language sources, 86 excluding these. The page is available by clicking on the Sources image found at the top right with all of the other page images. We, [...]

One of the video-related projects I was talking about in this post, is what I’ve got for you tonight. I took the time to find, download, re-upload onto the Touch Podium paid servers, and then embed every single iPhone Commercial that is available to you as of now. (16 commercials, to be exact. Don’t ask my [...]

Sport Psychology at the USATF 2007 National Podium Education Project - Las Vegas. In the presentation on Sport Psychology, there was a handout given called “The Difference Maker”. It had the quote called Attitude. I had posted the quote “Attitude” by Charles Swindoll in my meeting with American Decathlete Dan O'Brien back in 1993. (Remember, he didn’t come top 3 in the 1992 USATF trials, but went on to win in the trials and the Gold medal in 1996.) "Attitude - by Charles Swindoll. The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company … a church … a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we w

Remember that old primary school joke: If you answer both questions correctly, I will give you a million dollars: Q1) In 1912, name the ship that hit an iceberg and sank with over 1500 casualties? Q2) Name all the casualties. This is the same with coaching and the 2 magic questions to your athletes: Q1) What are your goals? Q2) How do you get there? The opening remarks of the USATF National Podium Education Project asked, “What is the difference between a 9.74 and a 10.24 100 meter sprinter? half a second? No, 0.01 seconds, because 50 steps x 0.01 seconds = 0.50 seconds. Great, so now we know to shave off 0.01 second per stride, but how do we accomplish that? You Know What to Do, but can you “Do What you Know”? At a simplistic level, we all know sprinting is all about stride rate and stride length. 99% of the coaches and athletes I know try to come out of the blocks as quick as possible to achieve a higher stride rate, with their stride length increasing until th

@Tuscany Hotel, Las Vegas If you’ve never been to a USATF National Podium Education Project, I highly recommend it. I also recommend signing up for all the disciplines (Sprints, Throws, Jumps, Distance) and choose the seminars that interest you. It’s good to have a refresher in fundamentals, or a different perspective on certain topics. Today’s session started off with Dr. Ralph Mann, silver medalist in the 1972 Munich Olympics in the 400 meter hurdles behind John Aki Bua of Uganda. He quoted a successful coach has the desire to learn and the commitment to teach.. Sprint Overview presentation The 100 meters is a complex event that must be broken down into several phases. POP QUIZ: What is the difference between a 9.74 and a 10.24 100 meter sprinter? half a second? No, 0.01 seconds. Why? 50 steps x 0.01 seconds = 0.50 seconds. 50 steps is used to simplify the math in this example. The actual number is more like 43 or 44 steps. For example, Dr. Mann presente

The following two links are the updates of every California team that has every made the podium at the cross country state meet. During the first year (1987), only 2 teams made the podium but to keep it uniform, I counted the top 3 teams in every state meet (1987-2007).•All Time Podium Teams Girls•All Time Podium Teams BoysIf you see any errors, please email them to albertjcaruana@gmail.com

The following are pictures of all the individuals and teams from Northern California that qualified for the podium (Top 10 for Individuals and Top 3 for Teams). Result links are also added.Division I Girls Top 10 IndividualsDiv. I Girls' ResultsDivision II Girls IndividualsDiv. II Girls' ResultsDivision II Girls-Ponderosa (3rd Place)Division II Boys Top 10 IndividualsDiv. II Boys' ResultsDivision II Boys-Petaluma (2nd Place)/Woodcreek (3rd Place)Division III Boys Top 10 IndividualsDiv. III Boys' ResultsDivision III Boys-Aptos (3rd Place)Division III Girls Top 10 IndividualsDiv. III Girls' ResultsDivision III Girls-Campolindo (3rd Place)Division IV Girls Top 10 IndividualsDiv. IV Girls' ResultsDivision IV Girls-St. Mary's (2nd Place)Division IV Boys Top 10 IndividualsDiv. IV Boys' ResultsDivision IV Boys-St. Mary's (2nd Place)Division V Girls Top 10 IndividualsDiv. V Girls' ResultsDivision V Girls-Mt. Shasta (1st Place)Division V Boys Top 10 IndividualsDiv. V Boys' ResultsDi

KTM, with its dynamic team of Cyril Despres, David Pearson, Quinn Cody and Shane Esposito and with the rich experience of team manager Chris Blais, have come away from their first ever entry in the legendary Baja 1000 with a third place podium. The r...

That time again… and rarely if ever (in the two-year history of this award) has the choice been more agonizing and ambiguous! This year the peloton had an uncanny knack for distributing the benefits of the Pro Tour that would have made Lenin proud. To wit: Like your Grand Tour winners? (Read the full post about ‘2007 Podium Cafe Rider of the Year: Nominations Time!’…)

Maiden race success for CarrollTold you so! Adam Carroll got his A1GP career off to a flying start in the Czech Republic at the weekend, nabbing a podium finish in the sprint race and carving his way from 18th on the grid to sixth in the feature. The team now lies seventh in the championship standings with 23 points, having scored in all four races of the season to date.Meanwhile the A1GP series organisers have signed a deal with Ferrari that will see the Italian manufacturer supply an F1-derived chassis and engine to the series for the 2009-10 season and beyond. The deal runs for six years and A1GP chairman Tony Teixeira also announced the formation of a second, lower-rung regional series to be called A2GP. It looks like the last doubts as to the potential longevity of the A1 concept have finally been dispelled.

Cal Crutchlow scored his first ever British Superbike Championship podium finish with third place in the very final race of the 2007 season at the Brands Hatch Indy circuit in Kent today. The Rizla Suzuki racer, starting from sixth on the grid, took fifth ...

Fiat Yamaha Team rider Valentino Rossi claimed his tenth consecutive career podium at Phillip Island today, taking third place and clocking the fastest lap of the race in the process. Team-mate Colin Edwards finished ninth in a race that was won by Cas...

Rizla Suzuki's Cal Crutchlow will start from sixth on the grid for tomorrow's final round of the 2007 Bennetts British Superbike Championship at the Brands Hatch Indy circuit in Kent after showing fast podium potential on race tyres during practice. Crutchl...

Rizla Suzuki racer Cal Crutchlow has a final chance to record a first and much sought after podium finish in his maiden Superbike season when the British Championship visits Brands Hatch in Kent for the 2008 finale this Sunday. "I have been getti...

Japanese GP brought some rain, few crashes, great racing and … 2 Finns on the podium. Photo: f1gpupdate.net I did not pay much attention to 2 Finnish flags over the podium after the race, but few days later I realized, that having more than 1 driver from the same country among top 3 is quite rare… And for Finns, this was the very first time. Here is what I managed to digg out: The first country to have 2 drivers on the podium was Italy in 1950. A year later Argentina joined the club followed by France in 1955. (more…)

Breen celebrates yet againDundalk's Niall Breen made another one of his regular visits to the British F3 podium at Croft over the weekend. He now stands fifth in the points, with one final double-header round remaining - an impressive showing for his first year in the category.

Les jeunes sont démodés on dirait bien. Constat sans doute exagéré mais il faut reconnaître que la vitalité de certains papys technoides laisse perplexe. Exemples : -Adam Beyer largue les maxis avec une constance métronomique depuis 10 ans et surtout une qualité inaltérable. -Après quelques années de galère à chercher son son, Stephan Bodzin explose littéralement [...]

The #37 Intersport Racing Very Berry Exotics Judd-powered Creation LMP1 car continued to improve as the 5th round of the American Le Mans Series 2007 Championship season. This was the series second visit to Miller Motorsport Park in Salt Lake City, Utah. The longest circuit on the 12-race calendar, Miller Motorsports Park provide an excellent [...]

Leading the Acura teams by an entire lap, Highcroft Racing finished third in the LMP2 class and fifth overall. The team moved up from their Sebring Class Position 6 finish to achieve a podium finish at Class Position 3 in tonight’s Acura Sports Car Challenge. Owner/driver Duncan Dayton commended the team’s progress and called [...]

The Acura Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg proved to a real street fight Saturday, with some slam-bang action around the 1.8-mile circuit. The American Le Mans Series debut in the streets of St. Petersburg lived up to expectations with many lead changes and a number of racing incidents that saw the Acura teams battle [...]

Valentino - Colin Valentino Rossi returned to the top step of the podium today after leading for all 27-laps of the Grand Prix of Spain, taking his first victory since Sepang last year and his 46th win of the four-stroke MotoGP era. Rossi’s 26th win for Yamaha also makes him the most successful rider at [...]

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Team Repsol Mitsubishi Ralliart rewrote the history books by claiming a seventh successive victory in the punishing 2007 Dakar Rally after the final 16km special stage, near Dakar, in Sénégal on Sunday. The success was a record-breaking 12th win in the team’s 25-year history of competing in the world’s toughest and most famous off-road rally. The French crew of Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret won the event for the third time in four years in their Mitsubishi Pajero/Montero Evolution and beat their team mates and defending champions Luc Alphand and Gilles Picard by a margin of just seven minutes 26 seconds, after 15 days of bruising competition across Portugal, Morocco, Mauritania, Mali and Sénégal. “I was very nervous on the last big African special stage yesterday and I just drove very slowly on the beach this morning,” said Peterhansel. “It was not necessary to do the show for the crowd and the television on the last stage. When I won my first motorcy

Valentino Rossi Fiat Yamaha Team rider Valentino Rossi took an impressive victory in Shanghai today, his second at the circuit having won the inaugural Chinese Grand Prix with Yamaha in 2005. It was Rossi’s 89th career victory but his first in seven races, since Estoril last year, as well as his first on Bridgestone tyres. [...]

Rossi and Edwards Valentino Rossi made another historic step in his incredible career today when he took his 90th career victory in Le Mans, equalling the record set by the great Angel Nieto, to move into second in the all-time winners list behind Giacomo Agostini. It was an outstanding display from the Fiat Yamaha Team [...]