This is a real start hill!

[Glen]

Saw it on bmx-forum.com  some training centre in the USA

[MartyC]

Isn't that a copy of the Worlds track from Bejing?

[moley]

Isn't that a copy of the Worlds track from Bejing?

Yep!!  An exact copy so they could practice before the olympics!!

[moley]

The worlds were held before the Olympics so they had already raced the track!!

Coppull has a start hill like that!! 

[Haro82]

The worlds were held before the Olympics so they had already raced the track!!

Coppull has a start hill like that!! 

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I think the worlds and olympics were held in different places.

[moley]

Worlds was a year before the olympics!!

Shaneze won!! 

[Haro82]

Worlds was a year before the olympics!!

Shaneze won!! 

I meant different places in China    I don't think the track used for the worlds was the same one for the olympics.

[scary_leary]

Fooking tarts track.. i'd piss that on me grifter!

[kusam]

I posted pics of the copy track at Manchester with the start hill in place..will try and find the thread

[kusam]

found the thread...here...

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=70813.msg719994#msg719994

[kusam]

Scary...I'll see you at the City stadium soon 

[moley]

Worlds was a year before the olympics!!

Shaneze won!! 

I meant different places in China    I don't think the track used for the worlds was the same one for the olympics.

Same track!!  Worlds 2007 was at Beijing

Thats why everyone thought Shaneze was a cert!!

[Haro82]

Ah I see. That's the Supercross world champion. Not the normal world championships that were held somewhere else in China in 2008, the proper worlds in 2007 were in Canada.

[moley]

Ahh,  I see what ya getting at!!

I haven't a clue!!

I just remember the commentary saying that Shaneze won a World Championship at the same track 362 days ago!!

[dialledbikes]

UCI World Champs 2008 was held in China same year as Beijing Games.  Different venues and tracks though.

Think they may have had a UCI Supercross round in China before.  Can't remember if that was on the same track as the Olympics, but definitely a different track to the World Champs (as Supercross rounds just raced by Elite and Junior, no little Johnnies or stiff old cruiser riders  so the tracks are gnarly.  World Champs covers all the usual age groups so tracks are tamer).

[moley]

Shaneze is the Elite Women Supercross World Cup Champion - This was the "Good Luck, Beijing" race held on 22 August 2007 on the Olympic track in Beijing, China exactly 362 days before BMX Olympic competition started in Beijing!!