WELCOME TO THE BMX MANIA 2012 BMX OLYMPIC PAGE | ||||||||
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August 8, 9 & 10 2012 |
Maris Strombergs celebrating one of the MAJOR wins of all time in BMX.....His SECOND consecutive Gold Medal! |
Shanaze Reade, Home Town Girl for the U.K. Faithful, celebrating a semi win.....Didn't happen for her in the Final, though. Rio? |
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One of the biggest crowds ever to watch a BMX race.....Over 6000 in attendance, the Olympic organizers were PSYCHED! |
MARIS STROMBERGS DEFENDS HIS OLYMPIC GOLD AT LONDON GAMES! |
MARIS STROMBERGS AND MARIANA PAJON WIN GOLD MEDALS AT THE 2012 LONDON BMX OLYMPIC EVENT! |
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Men's Time Trial Results | |||
1 Raymon Van Der Biezen/NED 37.779 | 2 Joris Daudet/FRA 38.221 | 3 Twan Van Gendt/NED 38.339 | 4 Connor Fields/USA 38.431 |
5 Andres Jimenez/COL 38.445 | 6 Sam Willoughby/AUS 38.496 | 7 Nic Long/USA 38.601 | 8 Renato Rezende/BRA 38.628 |
9 Quentin Caleyron/FRA 38.637 | 10 Marc Willers/NZL 38.687 | 11 Maris Strombergs/LAT 38.697 | 12 Liam Phillips/GBR 38.719 |
13 Rihards Veide/LAT 38.753 | 14 Carlos Oquendo/COL 38.775 | 15 David Herman/USA 38.955 | 16 Kurt Pickard/NZL 39.057 |
17 Khalen Young/AUS 39.304 | 18 Manuel de Vecchi/ITA 39.385 | 19 Luis Brethauer/GER 39.431 | 20 Tory Nyhaug/CAN 39.515 |
21 Jelle van Gorkom/NED 39.529 | 22 Brian Kirkham/AUS 39.610 | 23 Roger Rinderknecht/SUI 39.618 | 24 Emilio Falla/ECU 39.737 |
25 Morten Therkildsen/DEN 39.738 | 26 Ernesto Pizarro/ARG 39.765 | 27 Arnaud Dubois/BEL 39.772 | 28 Moana Moo Caille/FRA 40.015 |
29 Maik Baier/GER 40.231 | 30 Sifiso Nhlapo/RSA 40.788 | 31 Danny Caluag/PHI 40.900 | 32 Edzus Treimanis/LAT DNF |
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women's Time Trial Results | |||
1 Caroline Buchanan/AUS 38.434 | 2 Sarah Walker/NZL 38.644 | 3 Mariana Pajon/COL 38.787 | 4 Laetitia Le Corguille/FRA 38.976 |
5 Shanaze Reade/GBR 39.368 | 6 Laura Smulders/NED 39.420 | 7 Magalie Pottier/FRA 39.778 | 8 Alise Post/USA 39.890 |
9 Lauren Reynolds/AUS 40.045 | 10 Aneta Hladikova/CZE 40.846 | 11 Ramona Labounková/41.096 | 12 Stefany Hernandez/VEN 41.253 |
13 Sandra Aleksejeva/LAT 41.752 | 14 Vilma Rimsaite/LTU 42.162 | 15 Squel Stein/BRA 42.995 | 16 Brooke Crain/USA DNF |
Men's moto lineup for | |||
Thursday competition | |||
Moto 1 | Moto 2 | Moto 3 | Moto 4 |
MONDAY - PRACTICE/DAY ONE PHOTO GALLERY |
THANKS TO WARWICK WHEELER, BMXPRESS MAG FOR PHOTO ASSISTANCE |
MEN'S PRACTICE |
With the Athlete Village in the background and the Olympic Sized jumbotron jammin' behind, Corben, David and Sam jump it up. |
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TUESDAY, PRACTICE DAY 2 AT THE BMX OLYMPIC EVENT! |
Check it out, sports fans! It's 'Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday' at the 2012 Olympic BMX event and the riders are LOVIN' it! Everybody's getting their lines dialed in to grab the quickest time around the track, so that they can pick up that GREAT lane choice for Thursday's racing, PLUS, they're just plain 'ol excited to be at the Greatest Race Of All Time. EVERYONE here is stoked, it's going to be a GREAT weekend of BMX Racing. Wanna check out some Hot BMX Racing Pix? Get a little flavor of what's goin' on at the Big Race? CLICK HERE (Or Above) TO CHECK OUT THE BMX MANIA OLYMPIC RACE REPORT PAGE, it's RADIFIC! |
Olympic Race Report Page Posted on BMX MANIA! |
London Race Report Page Posted on BMX MANIA.....Click above! |
Sorry, BMX Fans that we've been out of touch for a while......Well, almost a week. BUT.....We've been working our way to the Olympic BMX Event at the London Olympic Games and we've FINALLY made it. Have you heard the old saying, "What you see is what you get"? Well, what you see is UNBELIEVABLE! Here tis.....Literally a BMX Field Of Dreams. But there are a lot of "Olympic Protocol" kind of stuff, so this is all we can offer at this point. Stay tuned, here, though, cuz we've secured one of the best BMX Photo Guys ever and we're here and we'll get you what we can get, cuz this is the BIGGEST BADDEST BMX Event ever! Gotta love that BMX is in the Olympics. UNREAL! Monday, practice for both Men and Women, check in here later Monday night for a report! |
2012 BMX OLYMPIANS - MEN | ||
Country | UCI Nation Ranking | Rider (Listed by first name) |
First Qualifying Criteria by Nation Ranking Points by finish at UCI World Championships, UCI SX World Cups & UCI Category 3-6 races. |
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Australia |
1st | Brian Kirkham |
Australia | 1st | Khalen Young |
Australia | 1st | Sam Willoughby |
USA | 2nd | Connor Fields |
USA | 2nd | David Herman |
USA | 2nd | Nic Long |
France | 3rd | Joris Daudet |
France | 3rd | Moana Moo Caille |
France | 3rd | Quentin Caleyron |
Latvia | 4th | Edzus Treimanis |
Latvia | 4th | Maris Strombergs |
Latvia | 4th | Rihards Veide |
Netherlands | 5th | Jelle Van Gorkom |
Netherlands | 5th | Raymon Van Der Biezen |
Netherlands | 5th | Twan Van Gendt |
Colombia | 6th | Andres Jimenez |
Colombia | 6th | Carlos Oquendo |
New Zealand | 7th | Kurt Pickard |
New Zealand | 7th | Marc Willers |
Germany | 8th | Luis Brethauer |
Germany | 8th | Maik Baier |
Italy | 9th | Manuel De Vecchi |
Argentina | 10th | Ernesto Pizzaro |
Canada | 11th | Tory Nyhaug* |
*Pending Medical Approval |
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Second Qualifying Criteria is best finish at the UCI Worlds. Only countries not qualified in the first criteria qualify here. |
S. Africa | 15th | Sifiso Nhlapo |
Switzerland | 18th | Roger Rinderknecht |
Belgium | 21st | Arnaud Dubois |
Philippines | 24th | Danny Caluag |
Brazil | 27th | Renato Rezende |
Denmark | 31st | Morten Therkildsen |
Third Qualifying Criteria is if the Host Country is not qualified above, they are allotted this position. |
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Great Britain | Liam Phillips* | |
*Pending Medical Approval |
Fourth Qualifying Criteria is if all 32 places are not filled, then the next highest qualifying country will be allowed to go. | ||
Ecuador | Emilio Falla |
2012 BMX OLYMPIANS - WOMEN | ||
Country | UCI Nation Ranking | Rider |
First Qualifying Criteria by Nation Ranking Points by finish at UCI World Championships, UCI SX World Cups & UCI Category 3-6 races. | ||
Australia |
1st | Caroline Buchanan |
Australia | 1st | Lauren Reynolds |
U.S.A. | 2nd | Alise Post |
U.S.A. | 2nd | Arielle Martin |
France | 3rd | Magalie Pottier |
France | 3rd | Laetitia Le Corguille |
Czech Rep. | 4th | Aneta Hladikova |
Czech Rep. | 4th | Ramona Labounková |
Colombia | 5th | Mariana Pajon |
Netherlands | 6th | Laura Smulders |
New Zealand | 7th | Sarah Walker |
Second Qualifying Criteria is best finish at the UCI Worlds. Only countries not qualified in the first criteria qualify here. | ||
Brazil | 6th | Squel Stein |
Lithuania | 10th | Vilma Rimsaite |
Venezuela | 11th | Stefany Hernandez |
Third Qualifying Criteria is if the Host Country is not qualified above, they are allotted this position. | ||
Great Britain | Shanaze Reade | |
Fourth Qualifying Criteria is if all 32 places are not filled, then the next highest qualifying country will be allowed to go. | ||
Latvia | Sandra Aleksejeva |
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