Less than one year ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games, nearly 160 elite BMX riders, and more than two dozen Americans, will gather in London for the official BMX Olympic Test Event, also the third stop of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup series. The first opportunity for the riders to race the Olympic track ahead of next summer’s Games begins this Friday August 19th, with finals on Saturday the 20th. The final will be broadcast nationwide on NBC on Sunday, August 21 at 3:30 p.m. ET. 
USA Cycling announced today its nominees to the 2011 United States Pan American Games Team. Sixteen athletes have accepted their nominations and are expected to represent the United States in Guadalajara, Mexico, Oct. 14-30.The United States will compete in all Olympic disciplines of cycling – road, track, mountain bike and BMX – with a mixture of accomplished veterans and young talent. As the top-ranked women in USA Cycling’s BMX Power Rankings, Arielle Martin (Spanaway, Wash./Intense BMX) is the only automatic qualifier to the BMX squad. Amanda Carr (Punta Gorda, Fla./Paul Williams) will join her for the women’s event, while Connor Fields (Henderson, Nev./Chase BMX) and Nic Long (Lakeside, Calif./ Haro- Rockstar) will race the men’s event.
All nominees are subject to approval by the United States Olympic Committee Board of Directors.
2011 Pan American Games Guadalajara, Mexico October 14-30.
Less than one year to go to the start of the 2012 Olympic games, almost 160 Elite BMX Riders men and women will gather for the third stop of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup series in London. All are very anxious as this is the first opportunity for the riders to race this challenging track on which the Olympic medals will be won and lost for the second time in Olympic history. Racing starts this Friday 19th August, finals on Saturday 20th. This World Cup Series, sponsored by Swatch, is the leading international BMX event series and is one of the first events ever to be staged on the new Olympic Park in east London. This UCI BMX Supercross World Cup Series is part of the ‘London Prepares’ series, also allowing the London 2012 Organising Committee to test crucial aspects of its operations in preparation for next year’s Games.
The newly crowned World Champions Joris Daudet (FRA) and
The difficulty and gnarliness of the current UCI Supercross BMX tracks have been a hot topic over the last couple of months. Is it too dangerous? Do the riders get enough practice time? How can they prepare for the 40 feet jumps? What needs to be done to make things safer? Is it still BMX? We're all about the big jumps and radness of the Supercross races, but we're not the ones having to race the track. But the riders who do, should start by protecting themselves. 
The last weekend of July took place the Elite and Junior World Championship at Copenhagen in Denmark with at the same time the world challenge for all the other categories….The track was really great, fast with many huge jumps, a long rhythm section at the 3rd straight and impressive turns in which it was easy to make some moves. So it was so great to look at all the riders performed, because on that kind of track the qualification is never sure until the finish. For Prophecy BMX, it was the first time to have some Prophecy BMX frame on the gate of a World championship, and we were very proud to see all riders from our team but as well all others riders on our bikes!
This year the UCI World Championships were held in Denmark, Copenhagen. Together with the Dutch National Team I stayed there for almost a week to practice and of course the big race of the season. Before I left home, I did a lot of training at our own Supercross track at the Olympic Training Centre Papendal. Riding felt really smooth and fast, so my confidence was back on time before the Worlds. 
Elite Men:1 DENZEL STEIN, REDLINE FACTORY, DESOTO, TX
2 NIC LONG, HARO ROCKSTAR, LAKESIDE, CA
3 DENNISON SMITH, DANCE FACTORY RACING, LUTZ, FL
4 BUBBA HARRIS, SUPERCROSSBMX.COM , SURPRISE, AZ
5 ELLIOT MCGRATH, STILE IND/FLY/REDLINE, ISANTI, MN
6 COREY REID, FELT/ALIUS BMX/DANS COMP, AVONDALE, AZ
7 MARIS STROMBERGS, FREEAGENT-ROCKSTAR, MURRIETA, CA
8 MATT KELTY, KOVACHI/GEICO POWERSPORT, DOVER, DE
Elite Women:
1 DOMINIQUE DANIELS, DFR, GILBERT, AZ PRI
2 ALAINA HENDERSON, FELT BICYCLES, RUBY, NY
3 ASHLEY LYNCH, SSQUARED/TLD/ANSWER, J'VILLE, FL
4 FRANCES MAYCROFT, DIRTWORKS RACING, GLENDALE, AZ
5 AFTON SCHRIMPF, SPEEDLINE PAR/SUPERCROSS, HB, CA
6 COURTNEY TOMEI, SUPERCROSS/DNA, MORENO VALLEY, CA
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.