Organizer: Hoffman Promotions

Bicycle stunt has been an X Games event since the beginning of X time (1995) and has become a cornerstone of the games. This year's incarnation will feature the disciplines of Vert, Park, Flatland, and Dirt. Throw a field of international competitors flying in from as far as Barcelona, Spain and Japan and you have one of the millennium's fastest emerging sports.

Downhill BMX
Organizer: Planet Seven Productions
Location: Woodward Camp, Woodward, PA

Welcome to Downhill BMX, the latest and greatest addition to the X Games. It is a sport that gathers the world's best BMX, Mountain Bikers, and Dirt Jumpers and puts them on a course which incorporates elements from all three sports. The 32 riders have been hand picked from a field of hundreds of possible candidates and represent the absolute cream of the crop.

We have been wanting to try this sport for years now and what better place to do it then Pennsylvania's own Camp Woodward? Home to one of the only existing courses of this type, it was the obvious choice. The course, however, is different from anything that has ever been ridden. It's new and improved, full of 40 foot gaps, big table tops and other huge obstacles which will make this one of the year's most exciting competitions.

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Park Riding
Location: First Union Complex-Outdoors

20 bikers on the newly redesigned park course built by VPI industries of Santa Rosa, CA consisting of spines, quarter-pipes, and street oriented obstacles, like stairs and concrete parking barriers, to round out the course. Riders have a maximum of 90 seconds to make their way through the course and are judged on how well they use it, as well as on the difficulty of their tricks.

2000 Results
Gold: Dave Mirra (USA)
Silver: Markus Wilke (GER)
Bronze: Ryan Nyquist (USA)

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Dirt Jump
Location: First Union Center-Indoors

A different breed than the vert or street guys, most of the dirt jumpers have roots on the BMX racing side of biking. This is mostly because dirt jumping wasn't a recognized sport until recently. Prior to the X Games and the Hoffman series, dirt jump competitions were informal and infrequent, usually occurring as a "half time" show at BMX races. All of that has recently changed, even to the point that rider's sponsors are now asking athletes to not race and save their bodies for the dirt jump.

Hoffman promotions' master course designer, Steve Swope, has the dubious duty of transforming more than 300 truckloads of dirt into every athlete's favorite dirt playground. Heavy winds with gusts up to 30 mph posed a problem in last year's event. Let's hope for better weather this year so these guys can show what they're really made of!

2000 Results:
Gold: Ryan Nyquist (USA)
Silver: Cory Nastazio (USA)
Bronze: TJ Lavin (USA)

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Vert
Location: First Union Complex- Indoors

Another X Games cornerstone event is the bicycle stunt vert competition. Twenty of the world's best bicycle stunt riders will ride on a 12-foot-high 48-foot-wide wood and skatelite monster built by one of the best in the business, Team Pain Enterprises. Names and faces that were practically unknown 6 years ago will be going head to head trying to get more air than the last rider, get a little more tech on the coping, and stomp those huge spins without getting tangled in the bike or landing in the flats.

2000 Results
Gold: Jamie Bestwick (GBR)
Silver: Dave Mirra (USA)
Bronze: Matt Hoffman (USA)

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Flatland
Location:First Union Complex- Outdoors

Flatland is an event that embodies the true spirit of biking through its demand of balance, agility, and patience. All of the riders are the living embodiment of discipline: each having spent countless hours in parking lots, driveways, and arenas mastering old tricks and creating new ones. The 20 riders are judged on style, difficulty, originality, creativity, execution, and overall performance. Points are heavily deducted for touching the ground. Masters of balance conquer concrete!

2000 Results
Gold: Martti Kuoppa (FIN)
Silver: Michael Steingraber (GER)
Bronze: Phil Dolan (SPN)

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