Maris Strombergs of Latvia wins the first gold medal for his country and the second gold medal awarded for the newly introduced sport of BMX cycling. French Anne-Caroline Chausson has the distinction as the first Olympic gold medalist for the sport when she won the women’s BMX competition.Photo credits: Adam Pretty and Phil Walter.
Posts under ‘BMX Racing’
BMX Racing: Individual Rankings as of April 2008
We were intrigued by BMX racing, the new Olympic sport which we blogged about earlier, so we decided to do more research on the racers who would do well in Beijing.
What did we find out? It turns out that like our favorite sport, tennis, there is also a ranking system applied in BMX racing. Here’s [...]
Sport to Watch: BMX Racing in the Olympics
Bicycle Motocross or BMX racing will debut as an Olympic medal sport in Beijing 2008. Let’s see what the sport is like with this video of the UCI BMX Supercross Adelaide Elite Men Final in Australia.
Can you feel the heat and the adrenalin? The guys in the video — Maris Strombergs, Jared Graves, David Herman, [...]
