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The American Bicycle Association (ABA BMX) has renewed its agreement with American Suzuki Motor Corporation as the official motorcycle and ATV of the 2008 ABA BMX (Bicycle Motocross) racing series. The 2008 ABA BMX Race Series consists of 27 National events and 15 Pro Series events throughout North America.

Earlier this year UGP and the National Bicycle League (NBL) joined forces to revamp NBL’s Open program and the new UGP Open Series was born. In addition to more than $4,000 in spot prizes at the NBL Pro Events, all riders who make 2 Open mains at National events will be qualified to enter the UGP Open Championship. And it gets even better – Any riders who make 4 or more mains are qualified

Sifiso Nhlapo kept his Olympic hopes alive when he beat many of the world’s best riders to grab a second victory in the 2008 European BMX Championship Series in Switzerland at the weekend. The 20-year-old South African placed third in Round 9 and then won Round 10 of the 12-leg European Championship Series, the most competitive international BMX racing series in the world. The win came at a good time for Nhlapo, whose last triumph in the Series was back in Round 1 last December. 

The Sea Otter BMX race today went pretty well, expect for the powerful wind that was pretty much constantly blowing all day long, with stronger gusts of wind every once and a while giving the riders a difficult time in the gate and with the jumps. Most of the riders played it safe by manualling the jumps and rollers instead of jumping them. Even with the riders playing it safe the wind still caused a problem. With the weather being dry and the wind so intense the dust was everywhere, sometimes causing the race track to not be visible.

Crupi Parts, Inc is proud to announce the signing of US Olympic hopeful, Tyler Brown. Tyler has been shopping for a ride since the end of last season and Bill Ryan from Supercross had stepped up to support Tyler since early on this season. But now Tyler has found a home with Crupi and Crupi is lucky to have him! “This was a big and bold move for Crupi” said Crupi President, Greg Swingrover, “but one we could not afford to pass up”. Swingrover went on to say that “Tyler is not only an accomplished rider but a terrific fit for Crupi.” 

Newly crowned National BMX Champion, Melissa Mankowski, has given selectors a reason to keep her in mind when nominations are made for the Australian Olympic Team in June. Mankowski today proved she should not be written off as a chance of making the Beijing Olympics when the sport debuts in August. The 20 year old was desperate for the win on the final day of racing at the Adelaide Showgrounds after apprehension about riding the Supercross course last weekend saw her withdraw. 

Elite Men
1st KAMAKAZI
2nd Luke MADILL
3rd Jared GRAVES
4th Glenn CODEGA
5th Todd PASCOE
6th Alex CAMERON
7th Thomas HUBERT

USA youngster David Herman not only made his first final but won the UCI BMX World Cup Supercross in Adelaide. The 19 year old 'dark horse' of the strong American men’s team blitzed the field beating Latvian. Maris Strombergs. Third was Australian BMX Olympic hopeful, Kamakazi from Queensland. Fellow Australian finalists Luke Madill and Jared Graves finished sixth and eighth respectively. All top three riders were finalists for the first time 

Elite Men's Final
1 David Herman/USA
2 Maris Strombergs/LAT
3 Kamakazi/AUS
4 Michal Prokop/CZE
5 Raymon van der Beizen/NED
6 Luke Madill/AUS
7 Emilio Falla/ECU
8 Jared Graves/AUS 

National Champion, Tanya Bailey (Perth/Gold Coast) was the highest Australian qualifier today at the UCI BMX World Cup Supercross in Adelaide. The 27 year old Perth rider qualified fifth in the time trial with a time of 35.672 sec just one second off winner, Czech rider, Jana Horakova. Horakova rode an impressive time of 34.743s in her second run to win her first time trail in a World Cup Supercross. America's Arielle Martin gained second while world number one, Sarah Walker (NZL), qualified third fastest.

Canadian favourite, Samantha Cools, took out fourth place. Other Australian women to qualify in the top 16 places were Nicole Callisto (Perth) in ninth. Junior riders Lauren Reynolds (Bunbury) with Caroline Buchanan (Canberra) placed 10th and14th respectively. Just out of the cut off mark was Townsville’s Rachel Bracken in 17th position.

According to USA BMX Olympic coach, Mike King, the women's racing tomorrow is shaping up as an important Olympic qualifying race.