BMX Bicycle Kyle Bennett Climb Aboard a Flight
BMX bicycle racing has taken Kyle Bennett all over the world, so it was nothing special when he climbed aboard a flight for China last week.
But it was something special when he got here.
“Once that plane landed and I got off and there’s some camera crews,” Bennett said, his voice trailing off. “It kind of hit me then. This is it.”
This, after all, is the Olympics, something Bennett and his three U.S. teammates have been pointing for since the sport was added to the Games schedule in the summer of 2003.
“I circled [the date] about a month after they announced it,” said Santa Clarita’s Mike Day, winner of the U.S. Olympic trials in June on a track modeled after the Beijing venue. “That’s when I got a coach. I did a lot of things to make this happen.
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Popularity BMX Sport Finally Arrive on Olympic
The popularity of BMX has seen the sport finally arrive on the Olympic stage, with its debut at the Games on Wednesday, August 20.
BMX, an acronym for Bicycle Moto Cross, has its roots in the late 1960s, southern California scene when teenagers started to imitate the booming Moto Cross (motorcycle) scene with modified, ‘tricked out’ bicycles.
The sport brings a wild flair packed with youthful energy and colorful characters. Tattoos and piercings are commonplace. One Australian rider formerly known as Jaime Hildebrandt legally changed his name to Kamakazi. Read more