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away with a rare half "candy bar" BMXstyle move in which he pulled one leg up through his arms and over the handlebars and tapped his right foot on the end of the front fender. It was insane! Guidetty landed the jump and could have passed on his next leap at that point, .but the kid had something else up his sleeve. Or rather, sleeves. On his last try Guidetty storked the front end back, took both hands off the bars and grabbed the front fender, hugging his cheek against the plastic and then pointing to the crowd. Outrageous! McGrath definitely had a challenger. Jimmy "Snapper" Button was next with a pure can-can, a no-Iegger and funny-looking stork - he didn't get the front wheel high enough and had to chase the fender with his nose all the way to touchdown. The crowd applauded his three efforts but not enough to make a transfer. Then came Mike Metzger, the slightly insane American flyer who pretty much perfected the Dorothy move (said to have been invented by veteran motocrosser Gordon Ward). Metzger rode into the arena with a cowboy hat duct-taped to his Paint Can Designs helmet and threw some wheelies out to get the crowd going. His first leap was a super-high Dorothy, but the thrill of seeing this move was gone by now. The next stunt by Metzger was a gimmicky-but-cool whip-it in which he pulled the hat off his helmet and threw it like a rodeo rider. His last jump, a roll-back nac-nac in which he stepped off the low-side of a whip-it, had to be seen to be believed. Metzger was in the three-man semi with Guidetty and McGrath, but first the crowd had to endure another number by the cheerleader I dance troupe that race sponsor Philipshave flew in from Dallas. Metzger, the new clown prince of supercross, handed his bike to a flagman and jumped in with the cheerleaders to do a little hip-hop dancing. The cheerleaders may have been scared but the crowd loved it. The lights were turned down for the jump off and Metzger started it with another roll-back nac-nac. McGrath did his Superman again and Guidetty did that footon-the-fender thing, which, in honor of its value to French entertainment, we will now call a "Jerry Lewis." When it came time for more fan applause Metzger geek-rode his bike up the tunnel jump and looped it over backwards, but the partisan Parisians did not fall for this obvious attempt to sway their applause and gave just a little more to McGrath and Guidetty. Everyone in the pits felt that Metzger had been robbed. The final was anti-climactic. McGrath threw a perfect nac-nac but the crowd was sticking 'with the homeboy. Said interested observer Ryan Hughes, "McGrath could have done a 360 and fired a gun at somebody, but this crowd would have given it to the Frenchman anyway." Guidetty cUd earn the win with another fender grab-andpoint, which, in honor of its value to French entertainment, we will now call a "Jerry Lewis Two." It was actuaUy pretty cool. l'X L!) 0\ 0\ ,....; a\ N l-< OJ S OJ :> o Z 19