Anne-Caroline Chausson Takes Gold at First-Ever Olympic BMX

Anne-Caroline Chausson continued her reign of the Olympic BMX track in the women's Final tonight to take home the gold for France. She adds the Olympic gold to her multiple World Championship wins in downhill, mountaincross, and dual slalom, including downhill wins each year from 1996 through 2003 and then again in 2005. France landed a 1-2 sweep tonight, with Laetitia le Corguille taking home the silver. The USA's Jill Kintner scored the bronze.

These results came from the NBC Olympic site.

Rank	Bike No.	Country	Name	Result
G	2		CHAUSSON Anne-Caroline	35.976
S	22		le CORGUILLE Laetitia	38.042
B	33		KINTNER Jill	38.674
4	96		WALKER Sarah	38.805
5	144		DIAZ Gabriela	39.747
6	55		CALLISTO Nicole	1:19.609
7	56		COOLS Sammy	DNF
8	1		READE Shanaze	REL & 1:46.543

Women's Olympic BMX Semi-Finals Results

Anne-Caroline Chausson and fellow Frenchwoman Laetitia le Courguille advance out of the Semi-Final rounds at the top of their respective runs at the first-ever Olympic BMX races. Anne-Caroline was the top-seeded rider coming into tonight's Semi-Final rounds. She won all but one of her Semi-Final heats. Laetitia also won two out of the three heats. Anne-Caroline andLaetitia will compete for the gold against current mountaincross World Champion Jill Kintner, Sarah Walker, Gabriela Diaz, Sammy Cools, Shanaze Reade, and Nicole Callisto.

These results can be found on NBC's Olympic site.

Rank	Country	Name	Total Points
1		CHAUSSON Anne-Caroline	4
2		WALKER Sarah	6
3		DIAZ Gabriela	13
4		COOLS Sammy	14
5		HORAKOVA Jana	16
6		FAHNDRICH Jenny	17
7		MA Liyun	18
8		SOERENSEN Amanda	20

Rank	Country	Name	Total Points
1		le CORGUILLE Laetitia	4
2		KINTNER Jill	9
3		READE Shanaze	10
4		CALLISTO Nicole	12
5		KLAUS Lieke	13
6		HODI Aniko	18
7		DUTTO Maria Belen	20
8		BAILEY Tanya	22

First Olympic BMX Seeding Is Complete

Anne-Caroline Chausson will rely on her scorching first seeding run to keep her first-place spot going into the Semi-Finals. Her time on that run would have put her at 19th in the men's field, above Michal Prokop. Jill Kintner managed to jump from 11th after her first run to 7th after her second. Jana Horakova keeps her 8th place standing. Am I missing any other mountain bike World Champions in the mix?

The results came from NBC online.

Rank	Country	Name	Time Round 1	Time Round 2	Best Time	Difference
1		CHAUSSON Anne-Caroline	36.660	43.174	36.660	0.000
2		READE Shanaze	59.330	36.882	36.882	+0.222
3		le CORGUILLE Laetitia	37.606	37.145	37.145	+0.485
4		WALKER Sarah	37.187	37.549	37.187	+0.527
5		DIAZ Gabriela	37.590	38.927	37.590	+0.930
6		CALLISTO Nicole	38.260	37.717	37.717	+1.057
7		KINTNER Jill	39.031	37.913	37.913	+1.253
8		HORAKOVA Jana	39.213	38.077	38.077	+1.417
9		FAHNDRICH Jenny	39.152	38.209	38.209	+1.549
10		BAILEY Tanya	38.621	38.285	38.285	+1.625
11		KLAUS Lieke	38.709	38.808	38.709	+2.049
12		SOERENSEN Amanda	39.183	38.719	38.719	+2.059
13		COOLS Sammy	39.813	39.137	39.137	+2.477
14		DUTTO Maria Belen	40.423	40.193	40.193	+3.533
15		HODI Aniko	43.137	41.772	41.772	+5.112
16		MA Liyun	42.563	42.015	42.015	+5.355

Anne-Caroline Chausson Snags #1 BMX Seed at Olympics

Yup, that's right, Anne-Caro smoked the field by more than half a second at the first-ever Olympic BMX Seeding a few minutes ago. Jill Kintner took 8th, and Jana Horakova was 11th. Ooooh! This is going to be good!

Rank	Bike No.	Country	Name	Time Round 1	Time Round 2	Best Time	Difference
1	2		CHAUSSON Anne-Caroline	36.660		36.660	0.000
2	96		WALKER Sarah	37.187		37.187	+0.527
3	144		DIAZ Gabriela	37.590		37.590	+0.930
4	22		le CORGUILLE Laetitia	37.606		37.606	+0.946
5	55		CALLISTO Nicole	38.260		38.260	+1.600
6	17		BAILEY Tanya	38.621		38.621	+1.961
7	66		KLAUS Lieke	38.709		38.709	+2.049
8	33		KINTNER Jill	39.031		39.031	+2.371
9	42		FAHNDRICH Jenny	39.152		39.152	+2.492
10	69		SOERENSEN Amanda	39.183		39.183	+2.523
11	4		HORAKOVA Jana	39.213		39.213	+2.553
12	56		COOLS Sammy	39.813		39.813	+3.153
13	145		DUTTO Maria Belen	40.423		40.423	+3.763
14	146		MA Liyun	42.563		42.563	+5.903
15	101		HODI Aniko	43.137		43.137	+6.477
16	1		READE Shanaze	59.330		59.330	+22.670