Bart de Jong
Team USA Cycling collected three more silver medals as the 2014 UCI BMX World Championships concluded on Sunday with the Supercross finals. Shealen Reno (Plano, Texas/Hyper Bicycles) and Sean Gaian (Santee, Calif./GT Bicycles) placed second in the junior races while Alise Post (St. Cloud, Minn./Redline) raced to silver in the elite women's contest. After five days of competing in Rotterdam, Team USA tallied 21 medals in the challenge class, cruiser class, elite and junior competitions.
"I'm unbelievably proud of all of our athletes," said USA Cycling's National BMX Coach James Herrera. "We had a great medal tally at the world championships this year and I'm super proud to see our junior riders and challenge class riders that are coming up through the ranks. We've got an incredibly bright future."
JUNIOR WOMEN
Reno's silver medal in the Junior Women's Supercross came in
FATBMX KIDS Goes USA part 9. Newport Beach BMX clinic with Team Soil. By Philip de Jong
Jul 27, 2014
Today we went to Newport Beach to watch the clinic from Team Soil. It was the final day for the kids after a week of riding and learning about BMX. In the clinic they showed their parents the tricks they had learned and they got their certificate to show their approvements. I took some pictures of the kids and their bikes. One kid road a Diamond Back Silverstreak which was a true piece of history. The children looked happy and proud of what they had achieved. Besides the kids also the Cordova brothers and Dylan Stark showed what they could by doing a superman,
Men Elite:Women Elite:
Mariana Pajon (COL) 26.983 1, Alise Post (USA) +0.449 2, Laura Smulders (NED) +0.735 3, Simone Christensen (DEN) +2.064 4,
Day 8. Staying at Tracer and Shelly Finn's in Las Vegas was great because they had a dog called Downey. I've always wanted a dog but my parents won't let me. Downey became a good friend in the few days we got to play with him. The last day of our stay we did a McDonald's breakfast in the park. I never had that before. While Tracer and dad got the food, we got to play one last time with Downey. When getting the food, Tracer showed a new Las Vegas riding spot to my dad. After 18 skateparks, it was now time for a pump track and some public dirt jumps in Sin City.
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.