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By Alyssa Roenigk

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Donny Robinson is ready for China. Are you ready for him? THE BMX TRACK When the International Olympic Committee voted in June 2003 to add BMX supercross to the Beijing Games, Robinson was just a struggling rider earning $14,000 a year—if he was lucky. "I heard about the Olympics and thought, I want to do this," he says. "I wanted to be the best." But before he could punch his ticket to China, Robinson had to find a way to win, having finished first just once in more than 20 starts from 2 ...

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