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Elite Men 
1 Marc Willers
2 Barry Nobles
3 Kyle Bennett
4 Donny Robinson
5 Elliot McGrath
6 Yvan Lapraz
7 Kory Cook
8 Bubba Harris

Elite Women
1 Dominique Daniels

Name: Caroline Buchanan
Hometown: Canberra Australia
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How does it feel going into the 2012 Olympic Games as a favourite for Gold?
Caroline: It is right where I want to be. For the past few years I have been telling people that I want to win a gold medal and everyone that I tell they remind me of that and it uplifts me and pushes me to achieve me goal.

2012 has been a great year for you. What do you have to do to stay on top of it right now? 

Being in the states over the last 4 weeks was a good choice. Being able to focus on what I needed to do was easy as I had no distractions. Training in the heat also helped a lot and the program me my coach and I put together seems to have worked well in conjunction with the next couple of weeks of train coming up. My preparation is on track and communicating with my coach makes it easy for us to both keep track of the training goals we set each week.

I am now in Lumbres France where I will continue to train and ride a supercross track for the next three and a half weeks. One of my good friends is here with who also qualified for the Olympics from Ecuador and having a training partner is going to awesome as most of my training I normally do alone. The track out here is awesome to train on and work on technical skills. The track is around 400+ meters and is just what I need to do my technical training on prepare for the Olympic track which is also 

Elite Women:
1  MARIANA  PAJON, COLUMBIA BMX, FT LAUDERDALE, FL
2  DOMINIQUE DANIELS, DOUBLECROSS, GILBERT, AZ
3  FELICIA STANCIL, GT BICYCLES, LAKE VILLA, IL
4  BAYLIE KORTMAN, DIAMONDBACK/KENDA/ALIAS, MI
5  KEELY KORTMAN, DIAMONDBACK/KENDA/ALIUS, MI
6  SABRINA MILLMAN, STAATS/2PD/ELITE, CALGARY, AB CAN
7  MADISON PITTS, MADERA, LAKE WORTH, FL
8  ALAINA HENDERSON, FACTORY FELT/SC, RUBY, NY

Elite Men:
1  DENZEL STEIN, REDLINE FACTORY, DESOTO, TX
2  TYLER FAORO, PROFILE / ON, CORAL SPRINGS, FL
3  JUSTIN POSEY, DAN'S COMP, WINSTON-SALEM, NC
4  ANDRES JIMENEZ, BOGOTA, CO COL
5  BUBBA HARRIS, DOUBLECROSS BIKES, SURPRISE, AZ
6  JOSHUA MEYERS, SSQUARED/ANSWER/TROY LEE, FL
7  CORBEN SHARRAH, GT/RED BULL, TUCSON, AZ
8  DONNY ROBINSON, HYPER BICYCLES, NAPA, CA

Elite Women:
1  FELICIA STANCIL, GT BICYCLES, LAKE VILLA, IL
2  BAYLIE KORTMAN, DIAMONDBACK/KENDA/ALIAS,  MI
3  ALAINA HENDERSON, FACTORY FELT/SC ACTIONS, RUBY, NY
4  SAMANTHA BROWN, FACTORY FELT/SC A, GRIFFITH, IN
5  KEELY KORTMAN, DIAMONDBACK/KENDA/ALIUS, GRAND RAPIDS, MI
6  DOMINIQUE DANIELS, DOUBLECROSS, GILBERT, AZ

It is the first time that Germany qualifies for the Olympic Games in BMX race. BMX AIR TEAM GmbH are very proud to present their Olympic Frame for London 2012. The frames have been build by MEYBO in the Netherlands and are all build to suite for our nominated Olympic Riders Maik Baier, Luis Brethauer and as alternate athlete Daniel Schlang.