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A MX/SX team should try to bring a good BMX rider. It looks so big and technical, with no suspension, that I would not be surprised to see a top BMX guy starting MX at like 17 years old and coming in to win a SX 250 3 years later.
The NBC sports app (same one you watch the nationals with) allows you to watch live video, highlights and replays of all events including ones that arent on broadcast tv.
Yup! And I think MC was nowhere near to the level of these guys in BMX. What they do technically, and in term of commitment, is quite mind blowing.
Pretty impressive transition.
Besides, he raced BMX over 30 years ago when BMX was still young. A lot has changed since then. Track layout, riders, bikes, even the dirt...
http://www.bmxnews.com/2016/08/major-olympic-bmx-update-listen-and-watc…
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Just for comparison, would you say Kevin Windham was one of the best ever? I wouldn't. He never won a 450 championship. Will he be inducted into the HOF? Yes, I would imagine. He was still better than 99.9℅ of the population. Even if Jeremy was "only" better than 90%, he was still an amazing BMX rider.
The Rio track is stupid, they already had to boycott it last year during the test event to get some things changed and I take it from something I heard from a friend whose child is there that it's becoming more survival than racing. The Olympics now has it's eyes of destroying skateboarding too in 4 years. Maybe they can figure out how to screw up motocross next.
I had no clue he was at that level, I thought he was just a good BMX amateur rider, like among the good guys at a local club. HOF is huge, that explains even better why he put a clinic in SX
But, fair enough, it can make tracks "all weather' usable, and keep maintenance during events in hand. But hell, put most of the ( average, or even pretty high level ) riders on a dirt track, with wearing, rough , loose corners etc, and many are just lost at sea. So, they have (very) old, aggressive near cripples like me giving them a hard time.......
My biggest gripe is that tracks, even (my) local tracks, have become nearly ' All Pumping, All The Time' . Buggerall pedaling, and that shits me. I also wish they'd make the tracks much, much longer, especially at the Pro level.
The track being somewhat, shall we say, "Gonzo" at the Olympics , with just the Pros there is fair enough, too. But, the consequences of an eff up / tangle are going to be severe. I really, Really hope all stay safe.
It's the most spectacular sport in the Summer Olympics. We just need Down Hill in it - that will take a few old UCI, and many National level bigwiggs, to shuffle off this mortal coil, and, the dumping of one of the sacred, arcane Track Cycling events. It's not a 'new sport', just a different event in Cycling.
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