Lat34.com - Action Sports News and Video: Skateboarding , Snowboarding, BMX and Moto » Tara Llanes http://www.lat34.org/quick_hits Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:27:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Tara Llanes on the Scene at 48Straight http://www.lat34.org/quick_hits/2008/09/24/tara-llanes-on-the-scene-at-48straight/ http://www.lat34.org/quick_hits/2008/09/24/tara-llanes-on-the-scene-at-48straight/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:33:15 +0000 Greg http://www.lat34.org/quick_hits/2008/09/24/tara-llanes-on-the-scene-at-48straight/ It’s been a little over a year since mountain biker Tara Llanes was paralyzed after crashing at a Jeep King of the Mountain event in Colorado.  This year the event was bought out and its name changed to 48Straight and Llanes was on hand to act as an announcer at the second stop which went off last weekend in Utah.

Check out this story on Adventure Sports Weekly about the event.  South Africa’s Greg Minnaar and Arizona’s Melissa Buhl took the top spots in the contest.

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Tara Llanes interviews rider Fionn Griffiths. cr. Wina Sturgeon

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