Shanaze Reade is back on the GB Track Team during their big buildup to the 2016 Olympics.
https://twitter.com/ShanazeReade/sta...68089786998784
Excited to join the GB track sprint team! BMX has been my life.. But I am now ready for a new challenge in Rio 2016!
This is interesting.
For those who aren't familiar, Reade is a BMX Superstar...but she tried the track a few years ago and did very well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanaz...e#Track_racing
Reade started track racing on 24 February 2007, her first ever competition on the velodrome was in the Manchester round of the 2006–2007 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics. She took second place with Anna Blyth in the Team Sprint in a time of 34.294 seconds. The Gold Medal winning Dutch team of Yvonne Hijgenaar and Willy Kanis' time was 33.966 seconds. Like Reade, Kanis is also a champion BMX racer. Reade and Blyth's qualifying time was the fastest of the event at 33.802 seconds.
A month later, on 29 March, Reade went on to take first place in Team Sprint at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Palma de Mallorca along with Victoria Pendleton. It was also the first ever Women's Team Sprint Gold Medal title in that event. Their winning time was 33.631 seconds. Reade was a last minute replacement for Anna Blyth, Reade's partner at her first track racing event a month prior.
Jamie Staff once commented that it's hard to get BMXers to leave BMX for track even though the skillsets are very similar because there is so much money in BMX and little to none in track.
I wonder what event(s) she'll ride.