WAIS BMX rider Tanya Bailey competed in the BMX World Championships in Taiyuan, China last weekend, reaching the semi-finals.
Bailey was left as Australia’s only elite women’s competitor in the field after fellow WAIS scholarship holder Nicole Callisto fractured her elbow in training for the Championships.
Bailey’s result should be enough to secure Australia a second starting position in the elite women’s event for the 2008 Beijing Games.
For Callisto, the injury came at a bad time but the diagnosis isn’t doom and gloom as Cycling Australia’s National Performance Director for BMX, Scott Sharples explained.
“We don’t know how serious it is yet but the initial doctor’s report is that it’s not so bad,” said Sharples. “We’ll get her to a specialist when we get back to Australia and take it from there.”
WAIS elite men’s BMX rider, Khalen Young also did not participate in the World Championships, instead staying with his fiancée who is expecting the couples first child.
