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Kicking up dirt : a true story of determination, deafness, and daring
Recounts two-time women's motocross champion Ashley Fiolek's life-long deafness, her triumph over adversity, her rise to the top of her sport and how her family and Christian faith helped her get there.
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A Feel For Racing
\"I'd like to encourage deaf people that they can do whatever,\" she said. \"It doesn't matter if you're deaf or not. You can do it.\" \"She's more sensitive to it,\" [Miki Keller] said. \"She's really in tune with the bike.\" \"This year, I hope I can win the WMA championship. Long-term goal, I want to win a championship in Europe,\" she said. \"One day, maybe qualify with the men. I'll have to be stronger for that. No girl has ever done that. That's why I want to do that.\"
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The sports world in 60 seconds
'Not every single minute of every day has to be totally organized. And so I'll be with a lot of my family, and they're fun to hang around with.' -- PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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Cosmogirl Challenge: Ashley Fiolek
MY CHALLENGE TO YOU: \"If something happens to you that you don't think is fair, don't complain -- try to find a solution. If you're a good cheerleader but you don't make the squad, ask the coach why you didn't so you know how you need to improve. If you got a bad grade on a term paper that you think you didn't deserve, ask the teacher what you could do differently next time.
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Florida Native Finds Peace in X Games Silence
\"That\"s probably the question I get the most from other riders is, \"How do you ride' I, couldn\"t do it. I rely so much on my hearing.\"\" Fiolek said through her father Jim, who translates her sign language. \"She has to hold her line, she can\"t cut across the track,\" Jim Fiolek said. \"Say there\"s something in the track she wants to move over, she can\"t really move over if she\"s committed to that line.\" \"I don\"t feel it, I don\"t hear it, so it doesn\"t bother me,\" Ashley Fiolek said.
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Woman leaves her mark on motocross
\"[Ashley Fiolek] has broken down preconceived notions and defined what a women's motocross racer is,\" [Miki Keller] said. \"It has to do with training and the way she carries herself. She's taken a stance for the sport.\" \"It's a little overwhelming for you and me because we're used to reacting to sound,\" he said, \"but Ashley got quite used to it.\" \"Ashley is always thinking of little girls coming up and how the changes in motocross will affect them,\" Fiolek said from their St. Augustine home, where Ashley has her own motocross track.
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Fiolek, 17, roars to top of women's motocross championship series
The spectacle of loud, mud-spitting motorcycles careening over huge earthen jumps while wiry riders in body armor and full-face helmets knock heads in the turns just drips with testosterone.
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Sports briefs
[Milorad Cavic] also broke 50 seconds, but 49.95 only got him a silver -- and plenty of words to eat. He wasn't nearly as close as last year's Beijing Olympics, when [Michael Phelps] famously won by one-hundredth of a second and Cavic always maintained that he actually touched first. Showing as much emotion as he ever has, Phelps also slapped the water and tugged at his Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit -- no doubt in reference to Cavic offering to get Phelps one of those supposedly faster polyurethane suits so he wouldn't have any excuses.
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Finding Her Rhythm by an Engine's Cadence
Hours later, she clinched the professional Women's Motocross Association championship, soaring six feet over the finish line with her left arm raised to the sky. \"It's definitely a growing part of the industry,\" said Jan Plessner, a spokeswoman for Kawasaki, which sponsors the W.M.A. Still, women make up just 10 percent of motorcycle owners, according to the Motorcycle Industry Council, an industry group.
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