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    Generation BMX: Connor Fields’ Olympic BMX Triumph Outside the Rio Spotlight: Outside the Rio Spotlight, #10
    Generation BMX: Connor Fields’ Olympic BMX Triumph Outside the Rio Spotlight: Outside the Rio Spotlight, #10
    Generation BMX: Connor Fields’ Olympic BMX Triumph Outside the Rio Spotlight: Outside the Rio Spotlight, #10
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    Generation BMX: Connor Fields’ Olympic BMX Triumph Outside the Rio Spotlight: Outside the Rio Spotlight, #10

    By Maria Kaj

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    The X Games are already 22 years old, so BMX—a contest where riders routinely crash into each other and still crawl past the finish line—already has a notable Olympic history. 23-year-old Connor Fields had even learned a painful lesson from London 2012, about winning the heats but losing the finals, when he came into Rio 2016 looking for redemption. Still healing from a broken hand and facing a star-studded field of the best in BMX, including a two-time gold medalist, Fields would have to employ every bit of strategy and speed to earn the first American gold medal. The story of how he did it and the wild rides for every racer across the dozen preliminary contest is as extreme as it ought to be. Because this is BMX, and anything can happen. (6500 words)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMaria Kaj
    Release dateNov 8, 2018
    ISBN9781386041061
    Generation BMX: Connor Fields’ Olympic BMX Triumph Outside the Rio Spotlight: Outside the Rio Spotlight, #10

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      Generation BMX - Maria Kaj

      Your respect for the author’s copyright is deeply appreciated.

      Text copyright © by Maria Kaj 2018

      Cover design collaboration by Maria Kaj and Karin Kaj.

      First Edition.

      All rights reserved. This work is sold subject to the condition that it shall not in any way be circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any alternate, copied or replicated form of digital, binding or cover. The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book by any means without permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy.

      Information contained is based on publicly available sources and is neither authorized nor endorsed by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC/Team USA) or its athletes.

      Although the author and publisher have attempted to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the information contained, we assume no responsibility for errors, inaccuracies, omissions, or any inconsistency herein. Information provided is as is.

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      This story is one chapter of a full-length work, covering a dozen examples of American excellence at the 2016 Olympics. While Fields’ account stands on its own, it can be read along with the others in Outside the Rio Spotlight: American Triumphs You Didn’t See at the 2016 Olympics. The book can be purchased in ePub and other forms at other fine digital purveyors. The paperback edition is also available at the author’s website at kajmeister.com.

      Generation BMX:

      Connor Fields’ Olympic BMX Triumph Outside the Rio Spotlight

      by Maria Kaj

      Foreword

      As Gertrude Stein or George Orwell might have said:

      A gold medal is a gold medal is a gold medal.

      …however…

      All gold medals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

      At the 2016 Rio Olympics, the United States dominated in sport at an unprecedented level, winning 46 gold and 121 total medals. This was the highest gold medal and total medal count for America—or for any nation—when not hosting the Games in a non-boycotted Olympics. Americans won in 20 of the 27 sport categories with 210 athletes receiving medals across dozens of individual categories. By any stretch of the imagination, that is a whopping mound of athletic success.

      However,

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