Jared Graves

The race of my life...

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:31:21 -0800

After the recent World Cup in Adelaide, most of the field moved on to our national champs to be held on the same track as the world cup.

My goal for the World Cup was to make it on to the podium, and while I did manage to make the top 8 the final didn't quite go to plan. The result made me determined to make the most of my second chance at nationals. ...

Aussies excel at home round of World Cup

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:42:14 -0800

The second round of the BMX Supercross World Cup was held on the weekend, here in Australia, in Adelaide. I have to start off by saying how awesome it was to race a world cup in your home country, the cheers that went up for the Australian riders when they were in the gate gave me goosebumps everytime! Also having my parents there and Jess as well was great!

It was another indoor event for this SX, held at the Adelaide showgrounds, but the track was still a decent length and certainly ...

Penrith track up there with the best

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:47:16 -0800

Training leading up to Penrith had been good, so I was hoping for a good weekend, so with 2 wins i was happy.

I flew in on Friday afternoon right before practice and met up with team SA. I have to say, the South Australia crew had a pretty sweet set-up going for the riders. With Manayta (said man-ay-ta...AKA, Shazza Willoughby) and Col Kitty (AKA Col "the cat...meow" Willoughby) looking after their shredders. ...

From Toowoomba to the World Cup in Madrid

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:32:40 -0800

It's Been a super busy past 3 weeks. It all started with a bit of a more laid back race at the Toowoomba BMX club Open Day, which is my home club. There was some good racing with 3 full gates of Pro men. Kamakaze, Jamie gray, Steve Janssen, Glen Codega, and my big Bro N-rod Graves all had a race, as well as about 15 other fast rippers. So it was a good race with 3 of the 5 member Olympic squad present. ...

Birthday Bundies

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:34:11 -0800

Well training has been coming along very nicely in the last 6 weeks, getting stronger and faster all the time. It's only 2and a half weeks until the first Australian rounds of the Oceania UCI Olympic Points series to be held at Nerang on the Gold Coast. This race is the start of the new season, and it's always interesting to see who's going fast and been doing the work over the past few months lead up. ...

Jared Graves - BMX

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:51:02 -0800

Hi , my name is Jared Graves, I am currently 24 years old, and live in Toowoomba, Qld, My sport is BMX racing, which will be a part of the olympics for the first time in Beijing. Quick background on me, My story is probably a bit differnt to most olympic athletes, I started in the sport at age 5 and raced flat out for the next 7 years, until i wanted to be a normal kid and I quit. ...