Here is lots of roller & inline speed skating news to keep you reading, looking at pictures, and watching videos for a while;

REPORTS & RESULTS

The last 2km through my eyes: Ferre just did his last acceleration to catch a late single breakaway so now it was Maarten his job to keep the speed high. At 1km to go the Powerslide train and Bont train tried to come over us but I managed to go between them with the help of Maarten. Also team Stadler did an attack and they had the lead. At 700m from the line the speed dropped just a little but at that point I knew it was my chance to go, I accelerated and took the lead followed by Nayib Tobon and team Stadler. As I hoped I could go as first into the last corner and finish first followed by Nayib Tobon and Giacomo Cuncu finished third.

• Reports: Thunder Bay Half Marathon [Click here] [Race Report: Thunder Bay Half Marathon]
• GIC Bremen [Bart Swings' report] [Schnelle Strecke und Kaiserwetter in der Bremer Überseestadt] [Swings en Berg winnen in Bremen]
• Eastern Seaboard Series #3: Keith Carroll’s report
• Central American & Caribbean Games [Results] [Colombia dominates] [Colombians win gold] [Andres Muñoz wins 200m at Central American games in Bogotá] [Colombia continues to dominate though the end of the weekend]
• Schauinslandkönig Einzelbergzeitfahren 2010 [Results]
• Zobern Austrian Inline Cup [Con un podio Rimessi passa in testa all’Austria Inline Cup]
• Picardie Inline Cup: Compiegne [Report]
• Club Patin Siero Trophy (Spain) [Report]
• Club Patín Calzada Tejanort Trophy (Spain) [Report]
• KPN Inline Cup, Heerde (July 19th) [Results]
• Report from Indianapolis: Tony Muse and Jorge Botero, two former World champions, representing Powerslide in the USA
• KPN Inline Cup, Waarde, Netherlands [Results] [Lochland en Berga zegevieren in Waarde] [Ingmar Berga wint zware 66 km in Waarde]

NEWS & MISC

2010 is my 13th year of inline. I’ve been on my current skates for exactly 3 years. They were about the best that money could buy when they were new. The skates are my 4 th pair of “racing” skates in 10 seasons and I am expecting to get a couple more seasons out of them (now that I have patched up the damage caused by a car tire). This year I have been averaging about 13 outings per month, the very same as in 2000. However, I take rests fairly often and actively skate for perhaps 45 -50 minutes on average.

• Interview Taïg Khris «My next records will be settled with roller skates!»
• Bont’s cycling shoes used in Tour de France: Tour tech: Fancy footwear at the Tour de France
• Bart Swings: New track record in Mechelen + Racing time tomorrow
• Ed Duncan: July 19th blog entry [Click here]
• First Loser: Out sk8ng
• Brazil’s pre-selected athletes [Click here] [Training camp for Brazil's pre-selected skaters]
• SAM Roller ready with coaches for 2011 season [Click here]

Bont has founds its way on to a lot more feet at this year’s Tour de France than in years past- photo by James Huang

EVENTS, UPCOMING

• World On Wheels opts out of World Inline Cup: Bewust geen World Inline Cup in Eindhoven
• Wouter Hebbrecht: European Championships 2010
• Italian Track Championships, Pollenza, September 2nd to 4th [Click here]
• Swiss Inline Cup’s next stop is August 7th in Bern [Click here for more]
• Ingmar Berga ready for Euros: Berga: “Kans op podium”
• August 21st in Hallum, Netherlands: Bartlehiem Skeelertocht KPN Open NK

PICTURES & VIDEOS

Young skaters at the Eastern Seaboard Series’ Summerfest- photo from Dave Dolnick

Eastern Seaboard Series- Stephan Charron helps out little Mathilde Charron- photo from Lehigh Valley SportsFest

Jonathan Blair (2nd), Joey Mantia (1st), Will Bowen (3rd) at USA’s Indoor Champs – photo from Danger Racing Ccn Sport

2010 Riverjump- photo from Frank Räcker

Training at the International Inline Complex- photo from International Inline Complex

France’s Track Championships- photo from RollerSisters

Training for the upcoming Canadian Championships in Calgary- photo from Ana Garrido

GIC in Bremen- photo from BartSwings

• Video- Plugging Lollicake Sales
• Pictures- 2010 Riverjump [Click here]
• Dave Dolnick’s Photos – Trexlertown PA Stage 3 [Click here]
• Pictures: Central American & Caribbean Games [Click here]
• Lehigh Valley SportsFest’s Photos – SportsFest XIV In-line Skating [Click here]
• Youth racing in Medellin, Colombia [Click here]
• Video: photo Flanders Grand Prix 2010 promo [Click here]
• International Inline Complex’s Photos – first level one and advance clinic [Click here]
• Videos: upcoming European Championships in Italy [Umberto Urbinati e i campionati europei di pattinaggio a San Benedetto] [Europei Pattinaggio, la pista Panfili scalda i motori]
• Pictures: France’s Track Championships [Click here]
• Video: KPN Inline Cup in Waarde [Click here #1] [Click here #2]
• Pictures: Austrian Inline Cup in Zobern [Click here]
• Pictures: Training for the Canadian Championships [Click here]
• Video: Picardie Inline Cup- Compiègne [Click here]
• Pictures: Club Patin Siero Trophy [Album A] [Album B]
• Pictures: Club Patín Calzada Tejanort Trophy (Spain) [Click here]
• Video: Andres Felipe Muñoz 300m new world record inline speed skate
• Video: Joey Mantia Road Relay China 2009
• Pictures: Bremen GIC [Click here]