{"id":64700,"date":"2012-05-22T19:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T02:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=64700"},"modified":"2012-05-22T19:23:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T02:23:36","slug":"bmx-world-championships-go-off-in-birmingham-uk-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=64700","title":{"rendered":"BMX World Championships go off in Birmingham, UK, this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"homearticlebody\">The UCI BMX World Championships &amp; Challenge are set to begin this Thursday, May 24 with competition running through Sunday, May 27. Twenty five of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top elite BMX racers will contest this final qualifying event before the U.S. Olympic Team Trials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The BMX World Championships in Birmingham are key in confirming our top male and female athletes for the London Olympic Games,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said USA Cycling BMX Programs Director Mike King. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have a strong men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s program and our women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s program is quickly progressing. We believe we have more than a few athletes who can obtain a podium and even better. Winning the World Championships ten weeks before the Olympic Games will boost anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s confidence.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usacycling.org\/news\/user\/story.php?id=7610\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UCI BMX World Championships &amp; Challenge are set to begin this Thursday, May 24 with competition running through Sunday, May 27. Twenty five of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top elite BMX racers will contest this final qualifying event before the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The BMX World Championships in Birmingham are key in confirming our top male [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64701,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64700\/revisions\/64701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}