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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Great Britain’s Shanaze Reade brushed off a nasty fall to qualify for the Olympic semi-finals of the women’s BMX. The 19-year-old from Crewe clocked a time of 36.882 seconds, behind only France’s Anne-Caroline Chausson, in her second run at the track at Laoshan.
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British BMX star Shanaze Reade brushed off a first run crash here Wednesday to go into the semi-finals of the women’s Olympic debut race.
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Samantha Cools advanced to the semifinals with the 13th fastest time in Wednesday’s time-trial round of the Olympic women’s BMX competition in Beijing.
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New Zealander Sarah Walker has clocked the second fastest time in the first seeding run of the women’s BMX at the Olympics.
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