BMX quarterfinals tonight.
Anyone got insight into the event format? I'm not really familiar with how a BMX race is organized. There are 24 riders, 8 per race. The event listing calls it quarterfinals (tonight), semifinals, and finals (tomorrow night) like it's single elimination. Are they started out at random or seeded? top four advance?
Edit, from Wikipedia:
Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's BMX racing - Wikipedia
The competition is a three-round tournament, with quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final. The time-trial seeding run from previous Games has been eliminated. In each round, the cyclists race around a 400 metre course with jumps and banked turns. The competition proceeds as follows:
[3][4]- Quarterfinals: 4 heats of 6 cyclists each. Each heat has 3 runs, using a point-for-place system (1 point for the winner of a run, 2 points for 2nd, etc.). Lowest points over the 3 runs wins. The best 4 cyclists in each heat (16 total) advance to the semifinals; the others (8 cyclists) are eliminated.
- Semifinals: 2 heats of 8 cyclists each. Again there are 3 runs per heat, using the point-for-place system. The top 4 cyclists in each semifinal (8 total) advance to the final; the others (8 cyclists) are eliminated.
- Final: 1 final of 8 cyclists. There is only a single run.