Caroline Buchanan Italy UCI Update

Tuesday 4 May 2010

Perugia Italy rd 4-5 UCI BMX

A short trip back to Oz and the Australian EDS Squad is back in Europe again. We arrived into the Cycling Australia base in Varese Italy a week ago. This weekend we had rounds 4-5 of the European Championships. It is proving very well worth our time here in Europe to race these rounds. The racing is of such a high standard. Lots of competition, technical/ challenging tracks and fairly decent prize money.

The track was CRAZY!! similar to a skate park... very tight/vert. With 150 elite and jnr elite riders there were lots of accidents... roughly 13 ambulances to hospital. The track proved to be so dangerous that the entire Dutch team did not compete on day two and many others.

Day 1 - I had a good day winning majority of the qualifying rounds and being right in the mix to place 4th in the final. Team mate Lauren Reynolds 6th.

Day 2 - I had a great start to the day in top qualifying spots leading into the semi final a bad start with such high competition and no mistakes to be made.. I missed out on the final. A congratulations to Lauren placing 3rd and Rachel Bracken 8th.

The team now head to Switzerland to the World Cycling Centre to prepare for next weekends BMX World cup in Copenhagen Denmark.

CB :)

  • By Allan H