USA Cycling teamed up with GT Bicycles to host the first of four camps in 2009 to be a part of a USA Cycling’s new BMX Junior Development Program. Seventeen 15-16 year-old men and women were invited to the United States Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif., Feb. 1-6 to take part in the first camp of its kind.
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Nine of the top young men in the sport of BMX and eight of the best young women arrived on the campus of the Olympic Training Center on Sunday where they were greeted by USA Cycling BMX Director Mike King and USA Cycling BMX coaches Brian Fell and Jeff Glynn, and later Jerry Bradford. Also on-site were GT Bicycles Team Marketing Support Coordinator Steve Spencer and Vet Pro Eric Rupe. The athletes, along with more than a dozen of their parents, were promptly taken on a tour of the Olympic Training Center. …Â Details