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Canada's Tory Nyhaug doesn't mind coming over to The Netherlands. Not only because of the BMX races, but because his girlfriend lives here. But the focus was on the track as soon as the green light was on. Tory made the Men final. Below he talks about the track. Track talk!

What did you hear about the track before you made it to Papendal?
Tory: I heard all kinds of stuff from it, I heard it was impossible to do a full lap and that it was bigger than Chula Vista. I also heard many doubts about racing on it.

Did you try to find videos of it to see what it was like before you went to Holland?
Tory: Yeah I saw some that Sander posted and some videos of the guys riding it. It looked huge!

When you arrived at the track, what was your first opinion?
Tory: I thought wow haha. I didn't think it was at all possible for us to race on. I thought it was too dangerous for us to ride especially with how windy it was. The track was so 

Imagine this. You fly across the world to race a BMX race. In the qualifying event you need to set a time of 32nd or better. This normally shouldn't be a problem. But you crash in this very lap and are out of the race. It happened to Lauren Reynolds from Australia. But instead of being bummed at the hotel room, she started supporting her fellow riders. Read on what she has to say about the Papendal track.

What did you hear about the track before you made it to Papendal?
Lauren: I watched a couple of videos of the Dutch team riding the track at the opening, but there wasn't very much of the girls riding so I didn't really get to see the girls section. I knew it was going to be big, fast and simular to the Olympic track

Did you try to find videos of it to see what it was like before you went to Holland?
Lauren: Sure did, there wasn't too much to look at though. 

Brian Kirkham has been one fast rider on the World Cup scene but during the Time Trials run I saw him struggle on a part of the track. He had to get back to his pace a.s.a.p. to set a top 64 time to be able to ride in the main program. Coming all the way from Australia to do one lap would have sucked. Brian pedaled to 55th place. Not all too great for his standards, but he was part of Saturday's race where he did make it to the main event. Now Aussies aren't scared quickly. What did he think of the track?

What did you hear about the track before you made it to Papendal?
Brian: I spoke to the Dutch guys in Phoenix and they told me it was crazy and they couldn't jump the whole track yet. They also said it needed some fine tuning to get it working

Did you try to find videos of it to see what it was like before you went to Holland?
Brian: Yeah I'd seen 1 video of someone ramping the first berm

The Papendal track was something else. We asked some of the riders what they thought about the track which is supposed to be the same as the 2012 Olympic track. Here's Thomas Hamon's opinion.

What did you hear about the track before you made it to Papendal?
Thomas: I heard it was a huge track. Some dutchies were posting selected videos on Twitter. I don't know if it was to scare us before we rode.

Did you try to find videos of it to see what it was like before you went to Holland?
Thomas: Like I said, bmx-videos and Dutchies posted videos; So yes, I had seen a few videos sessions before I went to Holland.

When you arrived at the track, what was your first opinion?
Thomas: First Opinion was GSX plays with the elements. With