Two-time Olympian Caroline Buchanan started her freestyle World Championships debut strong qualifying herself into the final 12 for finals. Before colliding with another rider in practice forcing her out of the competition. Caroline will return to the AIS in the coming days to work out a plan to recover from another injury setback just months after jumping back on to her bike. Buchanan compound fractured her finger at the UCI freestyle world championships in China, where she made the finals in her first attempt at a new discipline.
"Unfortunately I collided with another rider in practice and broke my finger, so I'll get [it in a cast] and
head back to Australia," Buchanan said. Buchanan in an already challenging year for herself has taken on a new freestyle challenge this year.
"It an absolute honor to have competed in the freestyle BMX World Championships. But more importantly to me this makes it my fourth cycling discipline World Championship I have competed in and represented Australia in over the past 10 years"
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