Cycling Bmx Racing

BMX racing emerged from the motocross craze that took off in California in the 1960s. BMX began to develop into a proper sport in the early 1980s; in 1981 the International BMX Federation was founded, with the first BMX world championships following one year later. BMX was integrated into UCI in 1993, thereby meeting the required criteria to feature at the Olympic Games. In 2003, the IOC endorsed BMX as an Olympic sport to feature at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It has featured at every Olympic games since. Since the establishment of BMX racing, the IOC has now endorsed BMX Freestyle as an Olympic Sport where it first featured at Toyko 2020.