UCI Biking World Championships 2023
Hosts: Glasgow and throughout Scotland Dates: 3-13 August
Protection: Watch dwell throughout BBC TV and iPlayer, with 200 hours of dwell streams on the BBC’s digital platforms
Welsh freestyle BMX rider James Jones is aiming for what can be “the most important podium” of his life on the UCI World Biking Championships in Glasgow.
He will probably be joined by 19-year-old compatriot Holly Pipe at biking’s greatest ever world occasion.
It options 13 World Championships in seven disciplines, over 11 days.
“Finally, it is a bit totally different. The entire of biking is there not simply the BMX model so it will be fairly thrilling,” stated Jones.
The Swansea native’s first two World Championships have been in China, then in Abu Dhabi, the place he needed to pull out with an damage.
Jones, 29, is trying ahead to have a extra “native” world championships this time.
“Do not get me improper, a pleasant 12-hour flight is not the most effective earlier than going into a contest!
“My fiancee is coming and my household, they will give you the remainder of the Crew GB different halves, so it is good to have individuals that may drive and never simply lay our a fortune to look at you journey.”
Jones’ yr has been hampered by accidents.
“I’ve had a couple of ups and downs this yr with accidents which has taken me out of loads of occasions and shedding factors.
“I’ve tried to maintain my physique in tip prime form, however similar to any sport, the slightest journey with a trick I can do each single day can knock you a few weeks again.
Regardless of these setbacks Jones says he feels “nice”.
“I am prepared and I’ve received my methods dialled in,” added Jones.
“In case you’re not progressing within the sport, sadly as cliched because it sounds, in sport everyone seems to be replaceable, so you must preserve, if you wish to be prime, including issues to it.”
With a “pop-up park” being constructed at Glasgow Inexperienced, the riders won’t know the make up of the terrain till they obtain {a photograph} a couple of week beforehand.
“We’re making an attempt to analyse it, however from a photograph you may’t actually get it, so you may have about an hour follow.
“It is a bit of carnage, generally there are 30 individuals in a bunch, generally it is 10. It is honest and I a lot choose it.
“No person advantages [from knowing the park set up previously] and the secret’s adapting and the extra you journey totally different parks, it is simpler.”
The Welshman is aiming for the finals the place he says it’s going to then be “a roll of the cube”.
“In case you land it, wonderful. Finally, I need to be on that podium.
“With the accidents I’ve had this yr, I feel will probably be probably the most particular contest.
“I have been on loads of podiums in my profession, however to have that at a World Championship, at a UCI occasion, clearly with the Union Jack in your again, I do not suppose there could possibly be an even bigger one aside from the Olympics.”
Jones is one in all eight riders within the British BMX freestyle park group who will compete in Glasgow.
Nevertheless, this time he won’t be the one Welsh rider, with Pipe, of Caerphilly, set to make her debut.
She earned an eighth-place end on the European Video games in Krakow, her first senior closing.
Pipe says the consequence has reassured her, saying: “It was crucial; it was my first style of ‘I can do that’.
“It is given me the boldness to undergo to the World Championships.”
Pipe is hoping for the same course on Glasgow Inexperienced to the one she proved herself on in Poland.
“I am hoping to see one thing just like Krakow, I actually received together with that course and I do know the ramps are being constructed by the identical individuals so I am hoping it’s going to be one thing like that.
“I began off once I was very younger within the skate park on my little 18 inch bike after which I received sidetracked to scooters.
“A yr in the past we had a contest right here [in Cardiff], I gave it a go and ever since then I have been glued to the bike.
Pipe is joined within the girls’s competitors by English pair Sasha Pardoe and Olympic champion Charlotte Worthington, the latter Pipe is drawing expertise from.
“She’s very useful,” stated Pipe.
“She’s had many experiences so she will be able to reassure us it is okay, for those who do that, you may be nice.”
When requested what she was aiming for at her first World Championships, Pipe stated: “I am hoping for a prime 20 consequence, that is my intention.
“Not too long ago within the worldwide occasions I’ve received higher and positioned higher so hopefully I can go higher than I did in Brussels a couple of weeks in the past. I am tremendous excited.
You’ll be able to observe the 2023 UCI World Biking Championships throughout the BBC from 3-13 August.
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