By Duncan MackayNovember 27 - The £292 million ($468 million/€362 million) transformation of the Olympic Park officially begun today as the temporary seats installed at the Aquatics Centre for London 2012 were stripped away by builders. 

been dismantled, along with the water pole venue and the Basketball Arena, the stands used for the BMX

successes at London 2012, will be the centrepiece but mountain bike trails have also been earmarked and the BMX

By Duncan MackayBud Greenspan, who along with Leni Riefenstahl was undoubtedly the filmmaker who has done more than anyone to bring the Olympics to life on celluloid, was an unabashed fan of the 17 days of glory."They're two weeks of love," he once told an interviewer. "It's Like Never Never Land. Like Robin Hood shooting his arrow through the other guy's arrow. It's a privilege to be associated with the best in the world. How many times are you with the best in the world in something? They bring things forward that they don't ordinarily do."For Greenspan, an unforgettable New Yorker who in...

Australia's BMX rider Caroline Buchanan and father Laurie examine some footage with Caroline Rowland

Other athletes to feature in the film include Australian BMX rider Caroline Buchanan, Chinese diver Qui

By Tom DegunSeptember 29 - Greece’s Lambis Nikolaou, the stand-in chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission for the Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games, has praised the Chinese city in their preparations for the event following their inspection visit.

The Sports Park will be home to hockey, BMX, rugby and beach volleyball during the Games before being

By Tom DegunSeptember 25 - Britain's most decorated Olympian Sir Chris Hoy is set to help spearhead a campaign to promote the sport of track cycling in Glasgow ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the Scottish city.

exciting time for British Cycling with major events across the UK taking place including the 2013 UCI BMX

agency, which gives them broadcast rights to the sport's annual road, track, mountain bike and BMX

By Duncan MackaySeptember 14 - Brazil's athletes are to receive an additional $500 million (£308 million/€382 million) to help them prepare for Rio 2016, where they will be aiming for a place among the top ten in the medals table at the Olympics and top five at the Paralympics.

The selected Olympic sports are: open water swimming, athletics, basketball, boxing, canoeing, BMX cycling

By Mike RowbottomThe Olympic Velodrome, scene of so much patriotic fervour during the recent Games as the likes of cycling stars Sir Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton and Laura Trott rose to the challenge of delivering cycling gold for the home nation, will remain as London 2012's jewel in the crown in terms of sustainability.

the local community, clubs and elite athletes.The VeloPark will also include the reconfigured Olympic BMX

By Tom DegunAugust 27 - Ajax in the eastern part of the city will host the baseball and softball competitions for the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games, it has been announced.

including water polo, badminton and table tennis.The Etobicoke Pan Am Complex cluster will host archery, BMX

By Stuart NewmanAugust 18 - Cycling is already beginning to feel the legacy benefits of Great Britain's success at the Olympic Games, the President of British Cycling has claimed.

to the high quality of cycling facilities the country now offers – velodrome, closed road circuit, BMX

By David Gold at the London Media CentreAugust 16 - London Mayor Boris Johnson has pledged to turn this summer's Olympic and Paralympics into "gold for decades to come" here today.

that London's plans were further developed than any other Olympic host city to date.The Velodrome and BMX

By Stuart NewmanAugust 16 - Tickets go on sale today for the debut of the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome on cycling's international stage when Glasgow hosts a round of the UCI Track World Cup Classics later this year.

place in Britain over the coming months with the National Track Championships and a round of the UCI BMX

Manchester Velodrome from September 26 until 30.Manchester will again be in the spotlight when the UCI BMX

Supercross World Cup hits town with a round of the competition taking place at the National BMX Centre

– a world-class training facility for Britain's top competitors – on April 19 and 20, 2013.The UCI BMX

Supercross World Cup flies into Manchester next AprilThis will be the third major international BMX

By Stuart NewmanAugust 14 - Team GB stars Lizzie Armitstead and Ed Clancy are supporting British Cycling's Go-Ride Games, a series of nationwide events that will give young people inspired by the Olympics the opportunity to try club cycling.

people as possible give cycling a try: "I started out as a kid who loved messing around on mountain and BMX

By David Owen at the BMX Track on the Olympic Park in LondonAugust 10 - It was a good day for two of

the lesser Olympic powers as the sun beat down on the London 2012 BMX track today.

on the track while the race carried on without him.Mariana Pajón heads Sarah Walker en route to BMX

Maroon Four".I was told by watching Latvian reporters that the majority of the small Baltic nation's BMX

riders come from the tiny town of Valmiera, where its first BMX track was built.Another, somewhat

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As I write this, Edzus Treimanis must be nursing one heck of a headache.The Latvian BMX rider was going

exhilarating the best practitioners make the sport seem, you need to be tough to get to the top as a BMX

racer.Latvia's Edzus Treimanis competes in the men's BMX Cycling before his horrific crashAnd today,

and tightly banked corners in groups of eight.No wonder, Sir Chris Hoy, who started out as a child BMX

track during the Women's BMX eventAs for prospects for the competition proper on tomorrow and Friday

By David GoldJune 25 - Men's world number-one Sam Willoughby is one of five BMX cyclists named by the

Since BMX was added to the Olympic programme it has 100 per cent been my goal to compete in London."

Winning the time trial at the World Championships was the first time I ever pulled on a BMX rainbow jersey

Beijing 2008, as well as world number-one Magalie Pottier of France.Māris Štrombergs of Latvia, the BMX

out Melinda McLeod to seal a London 2012 spot on her 21st birthday.She also took bronze in the BMX

world champion who enjoyed a superb 2011, and Khalen Young, the 2007 BMX Supercross World Cup victor