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Posted: 06 Feb 2010 09:18 PM PST

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KTM on Saturday launched a strong line-up of international MX stars for the 2010 World Championship racing season and introduced the new KTM 350-SX-F on the eve of the Star Mantova pre-season event in Mantova, Italy, which heralds a new era for the company and for racing.

KTM's CEO Stefan Pierer told reporters that the company was proud to be fielding the Red Bull Factory Racing team, which is capable of winning both the MX1 and MX2 World Championship titles. He said the new bike, first shown at the EICMA in Milan in November was a true symbol of the KTM Ready to Race philosophy.

"Our factory riders are proven talent and we as a company recognise that the real race is not just on the track but also off it. That is why we strive to produce cutting edge technology and to have it reflected in products like the new KTM 350 SX-F," Pierer said.

The Red Bull KTM Factory Racing factory team, which includes three current world champions and two vice world champions plus some exciting young talent, is the result of a three year development plan shaped by KTM's Offroad Sport Director Pit Beirer and 10-times MX world champion Stefan Everts, the Team Director. The two, once rivals on the track at the top of the sport, agreed in late 2006 to work together to shape a KTM factory team capable of taking both MX1 and MX2 world titles.

The year 2010, which follows two seasons where KTM's factory riders dominated the MX2 class, is one that Beirer and Everts hope to make a similar impression in MX1 with riders of the caliber of Antonio Cairoli, Max Nagl, the MX1 reigning vice world champion and Rui Goncalves, vice world champion of MX2 who moves up a class. Meanwhile, French MX2 world champion Marvin Musquin , Scotsman Shaun Simpson and 15-year old Jeffrey Herlings, considered by Beirer and Everts to be one of the brightest up-and-coming talents are after the MX2 honors. The factory team line-up is further strengthened by WMX World Champion Steffi Laier who is going for back-to-back world titles in 2010 and who races with the men in Sunday's Star Mantova.

"Our Ready to Race philosophy means we must have the best factory riders on our KTM bikes but we must also consider the next generation of young talent. The Red Bull KTM Racing Team is a good reflection of this and we are confident that we can be a force to be reckoned with in both MX1 and MX2 this season. It is also a great vote of confidence from the private teams that this season there will be more than 20 KTM bikes in the GP paddock," Beirer said.

Everts has been an important influence on the development of the KTM 350 SX-F, which is respectfully referred to as his "baby". The bike heralds a new era for KTM product development and features both fuel injection and linkage. Developers, in constant consultation with Everts, set out to create a bike that is almost as light to handle as a 250, with an all new chassis and frame and the pro lever linkage system for increased controllability even on the most brutal tracks on the Grand Prix calendar and match it with typical KTM motor power. In 2010 the factory team will also be onboard the proven 250 SX-F and the 450 SX-F bikes. Both machines have benefited enormously from KTM's big development program for the revolutionary new 350 SX-F, which had such strong support from Everts and the company's R&D team.

"We are excited to see what both our factory riders and bikes are going to produce in 2010," Everts said. "The 350 SX-F launches a new era for MX racing and it's also a reflection of the company's commitment to racing and to producing the best offroad machines for anyone who shares the same passion as we do."

KTM - Ready to Race the Motocross World Championships in 2010:
MX1: Antonio Cairoli, Max Nagl and Rui Goncalves
MX2: Marvin Musquin, Shaun Simpson and Jeffrey Herlings
WMX: Steffi Laier

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Posted: 06 Feb 2010 09:04 PM PST

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Walker said the autopsy report, which she viewed for the first time Monday, left more questions for her than answers.

"You can take yourself back to the actual day that it happened and see him laying there in that emergency room wondering, what the heck is this?" she explained. "This is not Kittim. This is not a real situation here. Please just wake up. What's going on? And then you wonder why, how? And then to learn that it's heart-related. What do you mean it's heart-realted? He was strong. To see (the report) is unbelievable."

Kittim's younger sister, NyAsia, a junior at Edison, struggles to explain to her friends why her brother died. Her mother remains unable to speak publicly about Kittim's death, and has not viewed the autopsy report.

"They ask me all the time," NyAsia said, a tear streaming down her cheek. "I just inform them that he had a heart condition. Of course, they are not going to understand what HCM is, so I try to explain it to them as best as I can. I just tell them he had an enlarged heart. They are like, "How can somebody that seems so healthy on the outside be so sick on the inside?' It's hard because he's not here. I don't even want to think about it, but I've come this far."

Sherrod's uncle, Ken Andrews, said the recent deaths of Chicago Bears football player Gaines Adams and Southern Indiana University basketball player Jerod Lewis, both caused by HCM, hit close to home.

"You always hear about things happening to other people, and you never fully understand until it happens to you," Andrews said. "I know it's very human. But it's also sad. So now I'm aware of all these things, of healthy people that you don't expect to have any type of ailments that have passed suddenly, and it's mysterious."

The color red

Walker said she gains more strength as each day passes. Only recently was she able to hang poster-size pictures of Kittim on the walls of her home, the same ones that were displayed at his memorial service.

The accent color throughout her living room is now red, Sherrod's favorite color, the color of the No. 24 on his Edison football jersey and the color of a heart.

"When I saw the autopsy report it was very emotional because it explained each part of his body that they had to view," Walker said. "To read that, it's just so real. You don't want to imagine anything like that in an autopsy, so it's something that's going to be with you forever.

"They had to actually take a part of him and send it down to Dallas (for tissue sample analysis)," she said, fighting back tears.

"They had to take his heart and send it out for testing," she repeated incredulously.

Walker said she believes the coroner was not able to examine all of Sherrod's heart because his family and friends each took a figurative piece of it with them on April 30, the day he died.

"I believe," she said, "that he's an angel now."

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Posted: 06 Feb 2010 08:14 PM PST

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As a two-time world champion triathlete, J.P. Theberge puts in his fair share of mileage when it comes to swimming, biking and running.

Lately, however, the La Costa resident has added a little more emphasis to the running part of his workout.

"I've made a nice transition to running," Theberge said. "I've missed it. I love running. It's my favorite of the three sports."

On Sunday, Theberge, 37, will find out just how much he loves running when he competes in the Surf City USA Marathon in Huntington Beach. His immediate goal is to qualify for the Boston Marathon in his age group. That would require a time of at least 3 hours, 15 minutes.

"I'm confident I can reach that goal, if not in this race, then another one," Theberge said. "It's always good to have something to shoot for."

If running a marathon in 3:15 and qualifying for Boston isn't enough to make a big impression, consider this: Theberge will be making his effort on one leg. And he believes he can run even faster.

"I really don't think it should be that hard for an amputee to run a three-hour marathon," Theberge said. "Sub-three hours would be the magic goal."

Theberge has been overcoming hurdles facing the handicapped since losing his lower right leg 13 years ago in a motorcycle accident. Since becoming a spokesman and mentor for the San Diego-based Challenged Athletes Foundation, Theberge has honed his triathlon skills to point of winning his paratriathlon division at the 2008 ITU World Triathlon Championship in Vancouver.

For good measure, he repeated as world champion last September on the Gold Coast of Australia, where he again won the Tri5 class for athletes with moderate leg impairment, including below-knee amputees. Along the way for the trip Down Under was Theberge's favorite support group, consisting of wife Gigi and the couple's three children: Fabiloa, 4, Francisco, 2, and the latest addition, Gisella.

"My family has been very supportive," Theberge said. "Gisella was born in March, and we named her after my mom, who passed away last January of cancer. That was a life-changing moment for me."

Theberge had originally planned to race in the Surf City USA Marathon last year, "but I didn't train for a month," he said.

"Once I got back to racing, I thought about my mom a lot last year," he added. "She always came to New York to watch me at the triathlon nationals. She gave me motivation, and it will be the same thing in this race coming up."

Theberge put his running prosthesis to the test last November at the Silver Strand Half Marathon, where he covered the 13.1-mile course in 1:29:31. His time, a personal best at the distance, would have placed 13th in the men's 35-39 age division out of 192 able-bodied runners, known as "two-legged freaks" to amputees.

"That was a good race for me, but with a marathon it can be so hard to predict," Theberge said. "Especially the last six miles."

Theberge said he continues to cross-train, so he runs only three or four days a week.

"I'm putting in about 40-50 miles a week, and there are no junk miles," he said Friday after starting his "rest day" with a short run at Tamarack Surf Beach. "On my long runs, I like to finish the run with a marathon pace. It teaches you how to run hard when you're exhausted."

The marathon Sunday will be the sixth for Theberge, but he hasn't run one since the 2007 Carlsbad Marathon, when he ran his best time of 3:29:34.

"I've made a big jump in the last three years," he said. "I've put in some heavy-duty training, and I'm much faster in general."

The owner of Cultural Edge Consulting, Theberge thinks the Surf City USA course will play into his quest.

"It's a fairly flat course, and it should be perfect weather," said Theberge, who has experience competing in triathlons in bone-chilling cold. "My goal is to run as hard as I can, within my limits."

Farther down the line, Theberge hopes to make a run at the world-record time for a marathon by a one-legged runner, which is 3:01:50 set in last year's Boston Marathon by 43-year-old Rick Ball of Ontario. Theberge also intends to go after a third world title at the ITU World Triathlon Championship, which will be held in Hungary in September.

"You don't ever want to get into a rut," he said.

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