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X Games: BMX star Martin focused on Olympic title defense
Despite seeing his run of X Games BMX park dominance come to an end in Japan, Olympic champion Logan Martin was happy to be back competing in the country.
The year-old Australian has had a number of memorable victories on Japanese soil, none bigger than his BMX freestyle gold when the sport made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games two years ago.
He had been aiming for his fifth straight X Games park crown at Chiba's Zozo Marine Stadium on Saturday, but had to settle for silver when rain washed out the scheduled final, leaving qualifying-round winner Daniel Sandoval of the United States as the gold medalist.
"I was going for my fifth park gold medal in a row, which has only been done once by (late BMX great) Dave Mirra," Martin said.
"It's very unfortunate that it rained out and we go off kvalificerande results. But we sort of went into qualifying knowing there was a chance of rain today."
Logan Martin of Australia compe • Since the UCI officially integrated BMX Freestyle Park into its regulations back in , the plans were always there to see the discipline join the Olympic Games programme. The creation of the UCI BMX Freestyle World Cup was followed, in , by the announcement from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that BMX Park would feature at the Tokyo Olympic Games. With a network of countries – the number of the UCI’s affiliated National Federations, which now stands at , at the time of BMX Freestyle Park’s integration -, had provided Park riders with a huge base to tap into. Cycling’s National Federations started looking for former BMX Pro riders to lead their Freestyle programmes with one major goal; making it to the Tokyo Olympics. With only nine spots available for men and nine for women, it was not going to be an easy task, but considering just five women participated at the very first UCI BMX Freestyle Park Worl • UK Halfpipe Series Round 3. On September 9th round 3 of the UK BMX Halfpipe Series went down, and what a show it was, from the very youngest competitors to some of the most talented vert veterans, this round had it all, big 's, flairs, whips and combinations. Even had Paul Meacher finding new and innovative ways to exit the ramp. It was fantastic to see the ung guns out in force, the group of kids riding the big ramp at Spit & Sawdust Skatepark were all avsikt on one thing, FUN!BMX Freestyle Park: road to Tokyo for the discipline and the athletes
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