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The kickoff to the 2014 UCI BMX season was this past weekend at the National Cycling Center in Manchester, England. An incredible venue with a purpose built arena for the BMX Supercross style track, riders from all over the world headed to the season opener with dreams of taking home the opening round victory. The Chase BMX Factory team riders Connor Fields, Joris Daudet, and Romain Mahieu all made way to Manchester to kick off the SX season. The top 16 from last years overall championship would have a direct bye to the SuperFinal Time Trials on Friday night, so Romain would be the

Crain's American teammates Dani George (Palmdale, Calif.) and Felicia Stancil (Lake Villa, IL/Factory GT Bicycles) did not advance past the semifinal round and finished 13th and 15th, respectively. U.S. national champion Alise Post (Saint Cloud, Minn./Redline Bicycles) suffered a knee injury in practice on Friday and was unable to compete in the event.

In elite men's racing, Connor Fields (Henderson, Nev./Chase BMX) was the lone American in the main event, crossing the line in sixth

England's Liam Phillips uses home advantage for the first UCI SX World Cup Time Trial win of the season in front of loud fans in the  National Cycling Centre. Although not a personal record, the sub 29 second time was needed to get Latvian Edzus Treimanis out of the hot seat. Treimanis set a time of 29.253 early in the final which was beat by the popular Phillips with one more rider to go: Time Trial World Champion Connor Fields (USA). With all eyes on the big screen the relief was big when the American set the second fastest time leaving Phillips the winner of the evening.

The first round of this season's UCI BMX Supercross World Cup got underway on Friday in Manchester with the time trial and moto qualifying rounds for Saturday's Supercross finals.

The U.S. team qualified 11 riders for Saturday's final sessions, including second-place finishes by Connor Fields (Henderson, Nev./Chase BMX) in the elite men's time trial and Brooke Crain (Visalia, Calif./Haro Bicycles) in the elite women's time trial. Fields' time of 29.156 was second only to Great Britain's Liam Phillips winning time of 28.942 in the men's time trial, while in the women's event Crain posted a time of 33.561. Only Laura Smulders of the Netherlands had a faster time, crossing the line in 33.251.

Other U.S. riders advancing in the men's divisions were Steven Cisar (Altadena, Calif./Avent Bombshell), Collin Hudson (Longmont, Colo./Redline Bicycles), Sean Gaian (Santee, Calif./Factory GT Bicycles), Corben Sharrah (Tucson, Ariz./Haro), David Herman (Wheat Ridge, Colo./ Free

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