Best Moments from the 2015 UCI BMX World Championships

Best Moments from the 2015 UCI BMX World Championships - Heusden-Zolder/BEL by uci channel

Sep 14, 2015

Written by Bart de Jong

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Meet some of the best riders and enjoy some of the best moments from Time Trial and Race.

Time Trial on Friday, July 24, 2015:
Eight of the fastest riders in the Juniors classes and 16 fastest Elite racers met up in the Time Trials Superfinal later on in the day. With the fastest racers in the world present, making it to the next round was the first goal. Slipping a pedal or casing a jump cost valueable time which resulted in watching the final laps of the day from the sidelines.....

Race on Saturday, July 25, 2015
The day started a little earlier than planned for a lot of the Elite riders as a storm was coming in and the program was shortened. In horrible conditions both the Men and Women were informed the World Championships race would start from the 5 meter hill instead of the 8 meter set-up that everyone had practiced on all week. It was a good decision to keep things safe for the riders. With little warm up time for everyone the race got underway quickly with a direct transfer system. BMX has some die-hard fans because the grandstands were full all the time while the rain was pouring down. Different tricks of the trade were used to keep the tires, grips and pedals dry to avoid slipping coming out at the start. The wet track required a different approach to make it through to the next round....