US cycling olympic team announced, and that includes BMX!
- added July 2, 2008
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yes everyone, BMX - BICYCLE MOTOCROSS (BMX)
west coasters reign this category, thank you.
link, includes complete list. yes Hincapie, Leipheimer made the rest of the categories. blah blah.
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BMXs!!! how bad ass is that!!!
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As the discipline of BMX racing gets set to make its Olympic debut this summer, the U.S. will field a four-person squad which consists of three men and one woman.
Automatic qualifiers on the men’s side include Kyle Bennett (Conroe, Texas) and Mike Day (Santa Clarita, Calif.).
Bennett earned his automatic nomination as the top-ranked athlete in USA Cycling’s 2008 BMX Rankings, while Day won the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials on June 14 to earn his.
Bennett and Day will be joined by Donny Robinson (Napa, Calif.). Robinson earned a discretionary selection to the men’s BMX squad based on his consistent history of recording top results at the international level. Among Robinson’s performances that factored into his selection were first-place finishes at the 2007 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup in Beijing last August, which also served as the official Olympic Test Event, and the third round of the 2008 series in Copenhagen in May. Robinson is currently the number-one ranked men’s BMX athlete in the world and leads the overall 2008 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup standings. Most recently, he finished second to Day at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials.
The sole women’s BMX spot will be filled by Jill Kintner (Seattle, Wash.). Kintner earned an automatic nomination as the top-ranked athlete in USA Cycling’s 2008 BMX Rankings.
west coasters reign this category, thank you.
link, includes complete list. yes Hincapie, Leipheimer made the rest of the categories. blah blah.
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BMXs!!! how bad ass is that!!!
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As the discipline of BMX racing gets set to make its Olympic debut this summer, the U.S. will field a four-person squad which consists of three men and one woman.
Automatic qualifiers on the men’s side include Kyle Bennett (Conroe, Texas) and Mike Day (Santa Clarita, Calif.).
Bennett earned his automatic nomination as the top-ranked athlete in USA Cycling’s 2008 BMX Rankings, while Day won the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials on June 14 to earn his.
Bennett and Day will be joined by Donny Robinson (Napa, Calif.). Robinson earned a discretionary selection to the men’s BMX squad based on his consistent history of recording top results at the international level. Among Robinson’s performances that factored into his selection were first-place finishes at the 2007 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup in Beijing last August, which also served as the official Olympic Test Event, and the third round of the 2008 series in Copenhagen in May. Robinson is currently the number-one ranked men’s BMX athlete in the world and leads the overall 2008 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup standings. Most recently, he finished second to Day at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials.
The sole women’s BMX spot will be filled by Jill Kintner (Seattle, Wash.). Kintner earned an automatic nomination as the top-ranked athlete in USA Cycling’s 2008 BMX Rankings.
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here is the gallery(link) from the Olympic trials in June
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sweetness! -
I think it's great that BMX finally made the cut, but it really sucks that it came at the expense of the elimination of some track events.
Why couldn't they accommodate both or get rid of some really lame sport that nobody watches? -
Bikes are bikes, it's all good to me.
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Learn a little more about Donny Robinson here...
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