News from the Seattle Times by Meri-Jo Borzilleri
When BMX was added to the Olympic calendar for the Beijing Olympics, some riders felt like they won the lottery. For new sports, the Olympics generally mean more attention, more money for training, more prestige.
For Jill Kintner, the news got little more than a shrug. She had raced on the bicycle-motocross pro circuit since she was a teenager at Kirkland's Juanita High; she won a world title in 2002. But now she gets her adrenaline charge, and a top world ranking, from mountaincross, racing mountain bikes downhill on an obstacle-strewn course.
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