For the second consecutive year in a row, Los Angeles just witnessed Jamie Bestwick snatch yet another gold medal on vert with some of the most unreal runs ever seen—runs that flowed together and consisted of unbeatable combos. Tricks like an opposite flair downside whips, no handed 540's, and a olley-oop barspin to turndown, downside whips to X and a never-before-seen olley-oop turndown flair!
Cody York
Put that in your medal detector.
Bestwick was hot to say the least, but he had some strong competition. Silver medalist and last night's Big Air gold medalist, Chad Kagy nailed some of the craziest tricks to ever see a vert ramp: a barspin to whip, double whips, his signature Superman to barspin, barspin flairs and even a double whip flair! So why didn't he win? From what I gather his double whip flair was a little sketchy and his runs were a little short. Oh well, how can Kagy complain? He got a gold and now a silver medal to check through security on his flight home.
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Brian Tunney
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Cody York
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Mark is from the U.K., and has over 28+ years experience in BMX. He has launched, published, edited and written for more BMX mags than you can shake a bike at. He also runs Deluxe BMX.
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