BMX Cycling: Colombian Classifies to the Final in Route
Rincón – The colombian Sergio Ignacio Salazar López finish first in the heat classification of the BMX in the today cycling event of the XXI Sport Games of the Center American and the Caribbean. His score was 34.908.
The Puerto Rican Ronald Vega finish second in the classification with a time score of 35.333, meanwhile Jonathan Suarez, from Venezuela arrive third with a time of 35.802.
The females, Stefany Hernández, from Venezuela, surprised the classification when she record a time of 39.071 and became the winner over the colombian champion Mariana Pajón, who finish second in the classification event with a time of 40.512.
Olympic touch in BMX historical debut
RINCON(July 22, 2010)-Just the way it happened at the 2008 Olympic Games at Beijing,the BMX discipline, cycling modality-that many consider an extreme sport, is ready to take for assault the XXI edition of the Mayaguez 2010 Center-American Sports Games.
It is that the BMX debut at the Rincon Track comes after the builder of the track that was used in Beijing will be in charge of designing and carrying out all the necessary movement of the terrain so that Puerto Rico would have the best possible field for this event. Tom “the track builder” Ritz came to Rincon three years ago to design and begin the construction of this BMX track that counts with all the requirements of the Union on Cycling International (UCI).
“It is like the Beijing track, at a smaller range. We are lucky that Ritz, who during the past 10 years has built the tracks of all the worldwide championships and was who also built the tracks of the past Olympic Games has been the master of these tracks,” pointed out the coordinator of BMX in Mayaguez 2010, Miguel Rivera.
Rivera explained that although the track took three years to be perfected , Ritz not even needed 15 days to design and built all the necessary terrain movements for the track to count with the exact specifications of the UCI.
“You could say that it is the same track of Beijing 2008.The difference is that the track of the Olympics was a Super cross track, where the jumps go up to nearly 60 feet, but here is not the same situation, as we are not in Supercross, but in regular BMX. But it counts with the necessary dimensions to give the public that attends, a spectacular he/she will never forget, said Rivera.
BMX starts today at 4:00 p.m. at the Rincon track, going up Highway 115 from Highway #2 North, coming from Mayaguez. In spite of some traditional sports didn’t mobilize the minimum amount of representatives for the event to come to life in Mayaguez 2010,BMXleader of the extreme sports, worldwide level, it got what it took, because seven countries confirmed its participation. These are: Costa Rica, Aruba, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Guatemala and Puerto Rico.
The Puerto Rican Ronald Vega finish second in the classification with a time score of 35.333, meanwhile Jonathan Suarez, from Venezuela arrive third with a time of 35.802.
The females, Stefany Hernández, from Venezuela, surprised the classification when she record a time of 39.071 and became the winner over the colombian champion Mariana Pajón, who finish second in the classification event with a time of 40.512.
Olympic touch in BMX historical debut
RINCON(July 22, 2010)-Just the way it happened at the 2008 Olympic Games at Beijing,the BMX discipline, cycling modality-that many consider an extreme sport, is ready to take for assault the XXI edition of the Mayaguez 2010 Center-American Sports Games.
It is that the BMX debut at the Rincon Track comes after the builder of the track that was used in Beijing will be in charge of designing and carrying out all the necessary movement of the terrain so that Puerto Rico would have the best possible field for this event. Tom “the track builder” Ritz came to Rincon three years ago to design and begin the construction of this BMX track that counts with all the requirements of the Union on Cycling International (UCI).
“It is like the Beijing track, at a smaller range. We are lucky that Ritz, who during the past 10 years has built the tracks of all the worldwide championships and was who also built the tracks of the past Olympic Games has been the master of these tracks,” pointed out the coordinator of BMX in Mayaguez 2010, Miguel Rivera.
Rivera explained that although the track took three years to be perfected , Ritz not even needed 15 days to design and built all the necessary terrain movements for the track to count with the exact specifications of the UCI.
“You could say that it is the same track of Beijing 2008.The difference is that the track of the Olympics was a Super cross track, where the jumps go up to nearly 60 feet, but here is not the same situation, as we are not in Supercross, but in regular BMX. But it counts with the necessary dimensions to give the public that attends, a spectacular he/she will never forget, said Rivera.
BMX starts today at 4:00 p.m. at the Rincon track, going up Highway 115 from Highway #2 North, coming from Mayaguez. In spite of some traditional sports didn’t mobilize the minimum amount of representatives for the event to come to life in Mayaguez 2010,BMXleader of the extreme sports, worldwide level, it got what it took, because seven countries confirmed its participation. These are: Costa Rica, Aruba, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Guatemala and Puerto Rico.
