We love receiving emails from people and we do receive emails from all around the world. We just received this email this morning. This gentleman hails from Europe and these are his observations. The names have been edited out for privacy reasons.
Hi,
after I heard first time about Youth olympic games in 2008 I googled for BMX / Singapore and set the first link to your Homepage in May 2008. I was interested in the first youth Olympic games because all my kids ride BMX, and not so bad for (European country named edited out)
I’m one of the so called “commissaires“ never did a BMX race in my live … I’m 49 so it was not may time. With 18 I tried a bit skate boarding, MTB started 10 years later in (European country named edited out).
We also have some (small) Problems with ‘Jokers’ and ‘Monkeys’. What I learned is that age or even BMX Race Practice is not so important than to (try to) understand youth and sport. What I can say about Tampines: For me its shocking. After 2 years the track became even worse. If an official puts a photo -like it is on http://www.singapore2010.sg - from a “BMX-Track” on an official Homepage, he/she don’t understand anything about BMX, MTB, 4x, and I would say Biking as a whole. Because of the “innovative and unique” concept of UCI for the Bike events - Mix of everything - (European country named edited out) doesn’t /can not take part. We are qualified but … When I saw the Event place “Tampines Bike park” on the official Homepage I think its good, because it cost – for parents and national organisations – lot of money to send 4 young riders and staff to Singapore. From parent’s side: We’ll spend that money on European challenges.
Hope to here from you
(name witheld)
PS: Best sentence on off. Webpage is: The trail is being upgraded to make it even more technically challenging ;)
Thank you for your email sir. You just made our day! :-)
Hi,
after I heard first time about Youth olympic games in 2008 I googled for BMX / Singapore and set the first link to your Homepage in May 2008. I was interested in the first youth Olympic games because all my kids ride BMX, and not so bad for (European country named edited out)
I’m one of the so called “commissaires“ never did a BMX race in my live … I’m 49 so it was not may time. With 18 I tried a bit skate boarding, MTB started 10 years later in (European country named edited out).
We also have some (small) Problems with ‘Jokers’ and ‘Monkeys’. What I learned is that age or even BMX Race Practice is not so important than to (try to) understand youth and sport. What I can say about Tampines: For me its shocking. After 2 years the track became even worse. If an official puts a photo -like it is on http://www.singapore2010.sg - from a “BMX-Track” on an official Homepage, he/she don’t understand anything about BMX, MTB, 4x, and I would say Biking as a whole. Because of the “innovative and unique” concept of UCI for the Bike events - Mix of everything - (European country named edited out) doesn’t /can not take part. We are qualified but … When I saw the Event place “Tampines Bike park” on the official Homepage I think its good, because it cost – for parents and national organisations – lot of money to send 4 young riders and staff to Singapore. From parent’s side: We’ll spend that money on European challenges.
Hope to here from you
(name witheld)
PS: Best sentence on off. Webpage is: The trail is being upgraded to make it even more technically challenging ;)
Thank you for your email sir. You just made our day! :-)
2 comments:
Hi all. I'm a former BMX pro (42 y o now) and also concerned about the situation. What's UCI doing about it? Will they come (to Singapore) and do an inspection on the BMX track? (what track???)
I know a BMX track can be built in a few days but why not having it now to give everybody a chance to practice.
Cheers
Luis
Ok, this is how I see it. I'm sure I'm not alone. Singapore seems to have this paranoid mentality that portrays: If we build the track early, people might use it and enjoy it. Now we don't want that do we... I'm actually surprised it isn't being demolished after the games due to it being a "safety issue - someone might get hurt". I'm super keen to ride this track, but I'm expecting to be hit with hundreds of conditions of use. "Must not leave the ground", "Do not go above 20km/h" And so on... Sounding so negative, but it's how it is.
I actually went to check out the track a month or so ago, I was swamped by security and their CANNOT word when I asked about having a look... It was right there, still CANNOT. Please I said, I just want to look at it... CANNOT. After 10 or 15 minutes of talking to the slowly calming "security" guy guarding the gate like it was Buckingham palace, he allowed me to look at it under his supervision...
Lets see how it goes after the games...
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