The women’s Olympic mountain bike race has been postponed until Saturday because of rain damage to the course, the UCI confirmed on Thursday.
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Sarah Walker is ready for the ride of her life in the BMX on Friday in Beijing.
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Cyclist Sammy Cools will have to wait one more day for BMX to make its Olympic debut. A steady downpour washed out both the men’s and women’s semifinals and finals Thursday in bicycle motocross at the Laoshan Bicycle Cluster, so organizers put the inaugural gold-medal events back to Friday, when the weather forecast calls for sunshine.
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Semi-finals and final races in the men’s and women’s BMX competition have been postponed until Friday due to rain, officials said.
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The first speed bumps have been cleared without incident, but the dirt road block to the newest Olympics podium can only be breached today for BMX cyclist Sarah Walker.
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Kiwi BMX coach Ken Cools was more than satisfied with the efforts of cyclist Sarah Walker after she safely made it through to day two of the Olympic competition in Beijing.
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When Shanaze Reade crashed and recorded the slowest time in her first seeding race in the women’s BMX event today it seemed that the 19-year-old from Crewe might struggle to live up to her status as the favourite.
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After crashing on a bend early on the first run, Reade - the defending two-time world champion in bicycle motor cross -completed her second run with no problems. She will now take part in an eight-rider semi-final on Thursday.
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The Jill Kintner that will compete in Wednesday’s Olympic BMX finals is not the same woman who took her third world title in four-cross mountain biking just 11 months ago. Sure, she still boasts the same chatty personality, curly ponytail and toothy grin — those qualities aren’t going anywhere. But the Kintner of today is a bigger, badder, stronger version of her former self. Bulging triceps flex from under her shirtsleeves, thick hamstrings and quads fill out her jeans.
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By her own admission, BMX rider Samantha Cools is a racer, not a rider, and she lived down to that self-assessment on Wednesday with a typically middling result in the individual time trial.
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