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Round one of the 2018 UCI BMX SX World Cup took place in St. Quentin-en-Yvelines near Paris in France. After a long off-season world's fastest BMX racers united at the covered BMX SX track at the French National training centre. It was the first big worldwide test to see how winter training had worked out and with a record number of entries, the athletes had plenty of racing to do before they'd make it to the final. Qualifying racing is much more interesting than the time trials that were used a few years ago. From the start of the racing it gets interesting. In Round 1 the top 4 riders transfer to the next round. The last chance that follows takes the best two riders to the next round. In the Men category that was a 1/32nd final in France due to the number of entries. To make it to the

Final results UCI BMX SX World Cup round 2, Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.

Elite Men:
1 33 DAUDET Joris FRA 4 32.789
2 100 MAHIEU Romain FRA 7 32.950
3 313 KIMMANN Niek NED 1 33.181
4 2 ANDRE Sylvain FRA 8 33.470
5 143 TORRES Exequiel ARG 3 33.967
6 127 TREIMANIS Edzus LAT 5 34.245

Results UCI BMX SX World Cup Round 1, St. Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.

Elite Men:
1 313 KIMMANN Niek NED 8 33.488
2 100 MAHIEU Romain FRA 7 33.678
3 33 DAUDET Joris FRA 6 33.842
4 148 VAN GENDT Twan NED 4 34.319
5 69 GODET Damien FRA 5 34.586

You may want to look fresh for every day at a race and bring your safety gear with you but it all adds to the luggage you've got to drag with you to the next World Cup or international race. Paying for overweight ain't no joke either. But some things you just need to bring to perform at your best. See what Argentina's Fede Villegas brings with him during a race weekend.

Name: Federico Villegas
Country: Argentina
Sponsors: Crupi BMX, Tioga, Ride 100%, BikeArt, Crupi's co sponsor Tangent and Fly Racing.