BMX rider Daniel Dhers built ramps out of salt at the Uyuni Salt Flats in Bolivia, a high altitude desert known as the largest salt pans on the planet. Known as Dalí’s desert because of their aesthetic views, the Salar de Uyuni stand 3,600m above sea level. At this height, the atmospheric pressure decreases and results in a blood oxygen shortage. “I would make a line in the Salt Park and would stop for five minutes to catch my breath again,” explains Dhers, a five-time
While it was still hot the girls got to work at finals of the second round of the UCI BMX Freestyle World in Osijek, Croatia. Tricks like backflips and crankflip barspins were pulled by the finalists which got the people watching the finals on their feet. The girls also progress at a fast rate and it was Germany's Lara Lessmann who grabbed the win in front of Cory Coffey (USA) and Valeri Steffe who was born in the hosting country Croatia but currently lives in The Netherlands.
Lara's runs included cancans and crankflips and even when the time was up, she pulled a crankflip-barspin just for the crowd. Mother of two Cory Coffey is loving it in Croatia and had the time of her life riding the girls class and scoring some UCI points at the same time before she attends the rest of the UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Tour in Denver, USA, Edmonton, Canada and Cheng-Du, China. She still has those flips wired in case you were wondering.
Third place went to Valeri Steffe who grinded the box ended her
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