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Personally I don't like the cruiser classes. I don't think the Elite Men or Elite Women take it seriously but use it as an extra possibility to win a title at a race like the European Championships and the World Championships like this weekend in Taiyuan, China. They hardly ever ride the 24" and I'm glad it's no Olympic discipline. All the cruisers do is confuse the outside public of what BMX is about. BMX is about the 20" wheels. Anyway, here are the results of the Elite and Junior classes of the World Championships in China. Whatever man. We've got some funny photos to go along with them. Enjoy the pics. Forget

12 & UNDER BOYS CRUISER
1 5 USA19960708 VOLLE, ALDEN (12) , (USA)
2 21 USA19970324 HEFFRON, BROCK (11) , (USA)
3 30 USA19960625 ROARTY, J LUKE (12) , (USA)
4 35 NZL19960509 WRIGHT, MITCHELL (12) , (NZL)
5 31 NZL19960404 ROSS, DONALD (12) , (NZL)
6 32 NED19961118 SCHIPPERS, JAY (12) , (NED)
7 24 JPN19960216 KONDO, REN (12) , (JPN) 

Juniors star for Australia at BMX World Championships while team camp optimistic of two places in women's competition in Beijing. South Australian Sam Willoughby has snared the gold medal in the junior men's final at the UCI BMX World Championships in Taiyuan, China while in the junior women's final Lauren Reynolds scored silver and Rachael Bracken the bronze medal. In the elite women's competition Tanya Bailey's semi final berth should be enough to give Australia two starting places for women in the BMX at the Olympic Games.

Bailey lined up as Australia's only starter in the elite women's competition after a major knee injury during training put Melissa Mankowski out of the team and out of contention for Olympic selection. Nicole Callisto suffered an elbow fracture in yesterday's training session in Taiyuan and was forced to withdraw.

"We don't know how serious it is yet but the initial doctor's report is that it's not so bad," said Sharples.

Today the world championships took place in China. Here are the final results that count:
Elite Men World Championships final:
1 Maris Strombergs (Latvia)
2 Steve Cisar (USA)
3 Sifiso Nhlapo (Z-Afr)
4 Donny Robinson (USA)
5 Damien Godet (France)

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THorne
Biker In Black

After the first two days of Amateur action in China, Redline’s Global Team riders have already scored their fair share of victories and podiums.
9-GIRLS/10-BOYS: The first Redline’r to stand atop the Worlds podium was 9 year old girl SAYA SAKAKIBARA. Living in Australia, but doin’ ir for Japan, “Sock-it-to-’Em” Saya scored Redline’s first (of many, we hope) win. Saya’s brother, KAI, kept the fastness in the family with a 4th in 10 Boys.

More than a decade ago, the premium British import was a rising BMX rider named Stephen Murray. The lionhearted racer had already earned six UK National Championships by age 16. In the States, he took to Dirt Jumping and Freestyle with mind-blowing maneuvers like double back flips and 360 back flips. He became a three-time back-to-back X Games and Gravity Games Gold Medalist, a feat unmatched to this day. Then his life took a different track. 

Elite Masters
1 Dale Holmes/GBR
2 Tim Dinger/USA
3 David Alavoine/FRA
4 Mike Gul/USA
5 Alan Hill/GBR
6 Fred Rello/FRA