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BMX Racing – Connor Fields; Felicia Stancil win time trial Superfinals at Chula Vista World Cup
Chula Vista, Calif. (September 27, 2013) – Americans topped the podium as the fourth and final stop of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup kicked off on Friday with the time trial Superfinals at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif.
Elite Men
With a time of 38.126, Connor Fields (Henderson, Nev./Chase BMX) won his third straight time trial Superfinal. The Nevada rider placed third in round one in Manchester and won rounds 2 and 3 in Santiago and Papendal before taking the final time trial win of the season on home soil … More
World Champs in Pietermaritzburg was always going to be a special race…
With a fast and extremely dry track, both speed and nerves were at maximum for the whole Syndicate.
The following 2 days saw some moto carnage with all the lads, including Stevie Smith and Nick Beer, before heading to the worlds largest gorge swing!
13,572m logged by former cross country world champ
Thomas Frischknecht and Thomas Giger set a new unofficial world record for the descending in one day on a mountain bike. They dropped 13,572 vertical meters on singletrack in one day during 14 different descents during a ride time of more than 13 hours.
Former professional mountain bike racer and Scott Swisspower team manager Frischknecht and tour guide Giger set their record in Davos Klosters this past Monday.
The effort pushed … Pictures and more