Mariana Pajon (COL) will both be competing. In total 120 Elite men and 40 Elite women have singed up for this ultimate Olympic test. Next to Pajon and Daudet most of them will be eager to improve their performance of the UCI BMX World Championships that were held in Copenhagen at the end of July.
About the Olympic BMX Track
Located in the north of the Olympic Park in Stratford in east London, the new BMX Track is approximately 450m long and features an eight-metre high ramp at the start, followed by jumps, bumps and tightly banked corners. For the first time ever the track features the ‘Oakley Underground’, a 15 m long tunnel, part of the women’s 2nd straight and the ‘Red Bull Box Jump’, a challenging and technical feature where Elite men fly on a box and off again.
Nationwide coverage in USA
For the first time since the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the American public will be able to see a major BMX event on nationwide television. Universal Sport – a media partner of UCI and the UCI BMX Supercross – has announced that the third round of the series, which will take place on the Olympic BMX track in London on August 19th and 20th, will be broadcast on NBC Sports in the United States on August 21st.
Fans in other parts of the world can watch the racing live online on www.freecaster.com
London 2012 Games
The BMX Track will host both the men’s and women’s Olympic BMX competitions next summer, with a total of 48 riders competing for two gold medals.
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BMX riders anxious to race brand new track at Olympic park London
Aug 16, 2011
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Less than one year to go to the start of the 2012 Olympic games, almost 160 Elite BMX Riders men and women will gather for the third stop of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup series in London. All are very anxious as this is the first opportunity for the riders to race this challenging track on which the Olympic medals will be won and lost for the second time in Olympic history. Racing starts this Friday 19th August, finals on Saturday 20th. This World Cup Series, sponsored by Swatch, is the leading international BMX event series and is one of the first events ever to be staged on the new Olympic Park in east London. This UCI BMX Supercross World Cup Series is part of the ‘London Prepares’ series, also allowing the London 2012 Organising Committee to test crucial aspects of its operations in preparation for next year’s Games.
The newly crowned World Champions Joris Daudet (FRA) and
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