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"\"&lt;p&gt;CORONA, Calif., (Aug. 7, 2007) \\u2014 Monster Energy&amp;#8217;s Ricky Carmichael, competing this past weekend at the X Games during his retirement tour of motocross, capped off a weekend of ESPN celebrating his illustrious career by winning the inaugural X Games Moto-X Racing event in front of a packed house at the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Carmichael, the all-time winningest motocross racer, topped a field that included World MX GP champion Grant Langston, former AMA Supercross champion Chad Reed and one of the only guys to beat Carmichael straight-up in an Outdoor National motocross race in recent years, Kevin Windham.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Man, I had a blast this week, said Carmichael, who was the subject of numerous features by ESPN and even helped with some event announcing. &amp;#8220;There was such a good vibe. We hung out and took in all we could, from the skateboard halfpipe &amp;#8216;Legends&amp;#8217; demo to some of the BMX stuff. I was really impressed with not only how the event was put on, but by the amazing level of athletic talent across the board in LA this week.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;In his event, the Moto-X Racing, Carmichael looked as strong as he&amp;#8217;s always been against the field comprised of most of the world&amp;#8217;s best supercross racers. Sure, a healthy Monster Energy-backed James Stewart (knee), along with Monster Energy\\/Pro Circuit\\/Kawasaski&amp;#8217;s Ryan Villopoto and Ben Townley (AMA MX Series Lites points leaders) would have made it a bit more interesting, but Carmichael certainly had his &amp;#8216;A-Game&amp;#8217; going and was not to be denied his first X Games gold medal.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;You know, it&amp;#8217;s definitely pretty cool, said Carmichael of his X Games gold. &amp;#8220;I never really thought I&amp;#8217;d be in a position to get one. That was cool of ESPN to put all this together, and thanks again to Monster \\u2014 as usual \\u2014 for all their help.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Next up for Monster Energy&amp;#8217;s Carmichael (Makita\\/Suzuki) is this weekend&amp;#8217;s running of the Millville (Minn.) Spring Creek MX National, Round Nine of the 2007 AMA Toyota Motocross Championships.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;For more information on this week&amp;#8217;s X Games 13 \\u2014 including all the results &amp;#8211; link to &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.expn.com\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;www.expn.com&lt;\\/a&gt;.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Monster Energy supports the sport. Be it MX, skate, SuperMoto, road racing, off-road, MTB, off-road, surf, snow, BMX \\u2014 name it \\u2014 the athletes are rockin&amp;#8217; Monster Energy more than anything these days. Check out all the types \\u2014 Original Monster Energy, Monster Lo-Carb, Monster Assault, Monster Khaos, the new Monster\\/fruit juice hybrid called &amp;#8220;M-80 and the ground-breaking Java Monster premium coffee &amp;#038; cream supercharged with our Monster Energy blend. They  dug &amp;#8217;em at the X Games \\u2014 so will you. On the &amp;#8216;Net at &lt;a href=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.monsterenergy.com\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\"&gt;www.monsterenergy.com&lt;\\/a&gt;.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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