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As the NW200 begins to loom on the horizon theÌý´óÏó´«Ã½ NI Sport team add a few props to highlight this year's 80th Anniversary of the event. Stephen Watson, below right, has been likened to the character who terrorised our music charts a few years ago, after this snap was published !

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The NW200 blog will feature all the latest news and views as the days and weeks pass untill race week, May 11 - 16 2009.

We will have Adrian Coates and Phillip McCallen back again to give their inside knowledge on the riders and paddock gossip. Stephen Watson will tell us what it's like having to work on the event when he'd rather be a bike fan sitting on Juniper Hill. Plus a few guest bloggers will dop in during race week to add their comments.

We can now embed Flash video into our blogs. The one below shows the contrast between the bikes and course of the flat cap years to the fast and furious machines of the 21st century.

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We will be making the most of social networking tools, working hard for you behind the scenes on the world wide web. We then force their results into a special widget which spits out all things NW200 to our site.

Sites like Flickr, Twitter and various Blogs all host wonderful content about the NW200, past and present which, when tagged with "NW200" will show up on our feed.

We have also been busy re-designing our homepage to give instant access to the best videos in a grid friendly style - coming soon.........

So Blog, Twitter and Flickr your heart out and you might find your content winding up here on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ NW200 site, soon...