Those now-infamous black masks were intended to keep the four U.S. track cyclists who donned them in Beijing's airport healthy and happy. The plan failed on both counts.
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BMX, the genre of cycling typically equated with 10-year-olds popping wheelies in a driveway or sprinting over a little jump built in the backyard, is all grown up. It will be an Olympic sport for the first time, starting tonight.
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The Olympic women's mountain bike race has been pushed back one day to Saturday because heavy rain created unsafe and unsatisfactory course conditions.
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Britain took seven out of 10 golds at the Laoshan Velodrome, as well as three silvers and two bronzes. Only one British track cyclist did not medal, and he won four stages at the 2008 Tour de France.
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Mike Day and Donny Robinson won silver and bronze in men's BMX while Jill Kintner took the bronze, giving the U.S. half of the first six medals ever awarded in Olympic BMX.
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Watch a replay of NBC's coverage of the inaugural Olympic BMX competition. The men's race was won by Latvia's Maris Strombergs, while the women's gold was taken by France's Anne-Marie Chausson.
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American BMX star Kyle Bennett is getting an extra day to rest his injured shoulder, which might be enough time to get him ready for the medal races.
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Julien Absalon of France won his second straight Olympic gold medal in men's cross country mountain biking, easily holding off countryman Jean-Christophe Peraud for the title.
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Germany's Sabine Spitz has won the gold medal in the Olympic women's mountain bike race, adding it to the bronze she won at the Athens Games four years ago.
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All four Americans advanced into tomorrow's BMX competition, but three-time world champion Kyle Bennett dislocated his left shoulder in his third and final heat. Bennett plans to race Thursday.
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Until recently, no one would have bet against Julien Absalon of France to take the men's Olympic mountain biking title. He is still the favorite, but he has shown a few chinks in his armor this year.
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Rock music blared, cheerleaders bounced and bikers crashed. Everything went according to plan when BMX made its Olympic debut Wednesday, writes Alan Abrahamson. Four U.S. riders advanced, too.
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On day two of competition, Kristin Armstrong of the U.S. won the gold medal in the women's individual time trial, making her just the second American female cyclist ever to become an Olympic champion.
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Those now-infamous black masks were intended to keep the four U.S. track cyclists who donned them in Beijing's airport healthy and happy. The plan failed on both counts.
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On day two of competition, Kristin Armstrong of the U.S. won the gold medal in the women's individual time trial, making her just the second American female cyclist ever to become an Olympic champion.
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While many BMXers felt the sting of eating dirt on the inaugural Olympic track, they also experienced what it was like to fly on a super fast course. Check out some jumps they hit during the Beijing Games.
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Until recently, no one would have bet against Julien Absalon of France to take the men's Olympic mountain biking title. He is still the favorite, but he has shown a few chinks in his armor this year.
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American BMX star Kyle Bennett is getting an extra day to rest his injured shoulder, which might be enough time to get him ready for the medal races.
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Britain took seven out of 10 golds at the Laoshan Velodrome, as well as three silvers and two bronzes. Only one British track cyclist did not medal, and he won four stages at the 2008 Tour de France.
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Julien Absalon of France won his second straight Olympic gold medal in men's cross country mountain biking, easily holding off countryman Jean-Christophe Peraud for the title.
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