On the BMX Track in the Beijing Olympics.
First year that sport has been introduced the the Olympics, the
course is dirt, hills and all, except for the tightly wound, progressively-banked asphalt
turns that the competition had to negotiate. They were seemingly banked really steep.
I didn’t know that this high-banked asphalt corner thing scenario was a standard, or only manufactured for this big Event.
Watching the BMX Bikes sail around those high-banks looked pretty cool. Each one took a different line around.
And the wipeouts that followed; no sheet metal damage, maybe a skinned knee, nose or elbow. Doing the lip-skid on asphalt has got to hurt.
Wonder if those machines got tech’d, or the riders(?) got tested for juicing.