{"id":68366,"date":"2012-08-08T13:48:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T20:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68366"},"modified":"2012-08-08T13:48:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T20:48:56","slug":"olympic-bmx-racing-begins-with-seeding-time-trial-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=68366","title":{"rendered":"Olympic BMX racing begins with seeding time trial runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racing portion of the 2012 London Olympic Games started Wednesday with time trial runs for seeding purposes in front of a packed crowd at the BMX Track in London&#8217;s Olympic Park. All 32 men and 16 women will move forward in the competition which continues with Thursday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head-to-head quarterfinals for men, and on Friday for men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s semi-finals and finals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The three American male competitors all qualified in the top half of the 32-man field after a single lap of the track. The time trial runs determined lane choice for Thursday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quarterfinals. The pair of U.S. ladies qualified eighth and 16th and will move to Friday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s semifinals with lane choice in that order\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usacycling.org\/news\/user\/story.php?id=7858\" 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 Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racing portion of the 2012 London Olympic Games started Wednesday with time trial runs for seeding purposes in front of a packed crowd at the BMX Track in London&#8217;s Olympic Park. All 32 men and 16 women will move forward in the competition which continues with Thursday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head-to-head quarterfinals for men, [&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-68366","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\/68366","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=68366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68367,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68366\/revisions\/68367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}