Photo special from the 2000 Motocross des Nations

1999 500 World Champion Andrea Bartolini	1999 & 2000 250 World Champion Frederic Bolley – was hit by a rock and broke his nose	Frederic Bolley and enthusiastic French fans
Ricky Carmichael in practice	Ricky Carmichael in pits	Carmichael and Sebastien Tortelli battle to the delight of the fans
Start	Tortelli and Carmichael in after race press conference	The French team earlier in the week at a press conference
Ryan Hughes – Team USA	Ryan Hughes	500 World Champ Joel Smets of Belgium
125 World Champion Grant Langston of South Africa	Ricky Carmichael, Ryan Hughes, Travis Pastrana	Team USA
American patriotism	Ryan Hughes	Ricky Carmichael
Ryan Hughes	USA Team Manager Roger DeCoster and Ricky Carmichael on the podium while the American National Anthem is played	More USA podium
More USA podium	Stephane Roncada

OVERALL RESULTS:

1. USA – 19 points (Travis Pastrana, Ricky Carmichael, Ryan Hughes)
2. ITALY – 36 points (Thomas Traveresini, Claudio Federici, Andrea Bartolini)
3. BELGIUM – 44 points (Patrick Caps, Marnicq Bervoets, Joel Smets)
4. GREAT BRITAIN – 47 points (Carl Nunn, Paul Cooper, James Dobb)
5. SOUTH AFRICA – 55 points (Grant Langston, Greg Albertyn, Ryan Hunt)
6. JAPAN – 62 points (Akira Narita, Yoshitaka Atsuta, Ryuichiro Takahama)
7. AUSTRALIA – 99 points (Michael Byrne, Andrew McFarlane, Chad Reed)
8. FINLAND – 99 points (Jussi Vehvilainen, Marko Kovalainen, Miska Aaltonen)
9. CZECH REPUBLIC – 103 points (Jan Zaremba, Jiri Cepelak, Michal Kadlecek)
10. GERMANY – 105 points (Marco Dorsch, Jochen Jasinski, Bernd Eckenbach)