VOL. 53 ISSUE 31 AUGUST 9, 2016 P61
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ast week in our two-part interview with
Ryan Dungey, the 2016 AMA Super-
cross Champion talked about racing
against Ken Roczen, winning titles, dealing
with burnout and his injury that knocked him
out of the 2016 AMA Pro Motocross Cham-
pionship. If you missed it, click HERE. In
part two, he talks about helping children with
cancer and his involvement with the St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital, being photo-
graphed naked for ESPN Magazine and what
he might do when it comes time to hang up
his boots.
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVE COX
GIVING
We've covered this before, but it should be re-
iterated: In addition to all of the responsibilities
we listed in the lead of this story—things which
are contractual obligations for Ryan Dungey—
he spends a lot of his limited downtime doing
charity work for St. Jude Children's Hospital
in his home state of Minnesota. Every year,
he holds a charity bike ride and run called the
Minnesota Major. And the truth is, he seems
to love it.
"This year will be the fourth year that we've
held the charity bike ride that I started back in
2012 [they missed a year in there]," Dungey
said. "I lost my grandmother in 2005 to
cancer, so through my life after that point, I've
always wanted to give back and help. And that
just got stronger as I got older, and I gained
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