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Sam Willoughby. Sam Willoughby (born 15 August 1991 in Bedford Park, South Australia) is an Australian former BMX racing cyclist. He won an Olympic silver medal in 2012. He suffered a career-ending injury in 2016 and has since worked on his own rehabilitation, and as his wife's coach.
In an interview with CNN Sport, BMX rider Saya Sakakibara talks about not quitting following a concussion, heartbreak at Tokyo 2020 and hopes for the Paris Olympics.
A$124,649–$1 million [1] BMX Bandits (released as Short Wave in the United States [2]) is a 1983 Australian crime comedy action film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and starring Nicole Kidman . In the film, a gang is given orders to perform payroll robbery. The walkie-talkies which it intends to use are stolen by local kids, and the gang ...
One racer propels his partner like a slingshot during a Madison race. The Madison is a relay race event in track cycling, named after the first Madison Square Garden in New York, and known as the "American race" in French (course à l'américaine) and as Americana in Spanish and in Italian.
Such high-speed crashes are common in BMX racing, where riders are in tight quarters on a course that includes bumps, ramps and highly banked turns. One day earlier, Carlos Alberto Ramirez was ...
After a horrific crash at the Tokyo Olympics that left him hospitalized with a brain injury, U.S. BMX rider Connor Fields is home in Henderson, Nevada.
Mat Hoffman (born January 9, 1972) [ 1] is a professional American BMX rider who was considered one of the best vert ramp riders in the history of the sport. [ 2] He was nicknamed "The Condor" and ran the BMX Freestyle brand Hoffman BMX Bikes based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was a sponsored rider for Skyway and then Haro Bikes before ...
BMX racing was a phenomenon by the mid-1970s. Children were racing standard road bikes off-road around purpose-built tracks in California. [ 1] The motorcycle racing documentary On Any Sunday (1971) is generally credited with inspiring the movement nationally in the United States; its opening scene shows kids riding their Sting-Rays off-road.