What a huge adventure & learning experience for Buchanan Next Gen at the BMX World Championships in Belgium this week! After overcoming a broken collar bone at Australian Nationals in April and a dislocated knee shortly thereafter, Mikayla Rose #22 from Canberra ACT battled it out to the semi-finals, missing a finals berth by just one place
Granieri brothers / Maggiora park - FOX Head from Aspect Media
Deposed champion Sam Willoughby has declared his Rio Olympic campaign on track despite crashing out of yesterday’s BMX world championship final on a dramatic day in Zolder, Belgium. Racing in driving rain and strong winds, Willoughby was leading the field through the second turn in his title defence when he was controversially forced off the track and out of the final by Swiss rider David Graf.
The event had been thrown into chaos when a serious weather warning led officials to make major changes to the format and schedule of competition, including the decision to start all events from the 5m start hill used by the age group challenge classes instead of the elite 8m supercross start hill.
The altered schedule saw riders hit the wet track in a condensed helter skelter program that put immense pressure on the riders. Fellow Australian Olympian and former world champion Caroline Buchanan was drawn to describe the day as ‘crazy, something we’ve never seen before at this level’.
The Belgian Bmx Open 2015 | Official Aftermovie by Thebackstreetbmx Visuals
Last week saw the complete Haro UK Race Team head to Zolder, Belgium to take part in the World Championships. There was a total of 3133 riders from 47 countries. Mark Fletcher, Lewis Hipkins Emily Green, Eddie Moore and Josh Moore made it through to the later qualifying stages but couldn?t progress any further mainly due to crashes. Three riders made it through to the main event which would mean they were presented with a world placing!
GoPro Final Run Niek Kimmann - 2015 UCI BMX WCHs Heusden - Zolder
FATBMX KIDS: BMX Olympian Arthurs Matisons makes new free bike game.
After a staggering soft launch success in Denmark, indie game developer FunGenerationLab is launching Bike Up! world-wide today. The game can be downloaded for free on Apple App Store and Google Play. Bike Up! is an exciting and addictive bike trial game created by BMX Olympian and World Champion Arturs Matisons. “We wanted to make a casual game which is truly enjoyable.“ says Matisons, the creative producer of Bike Up!.
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