The London 2012 Mountain Bike course is looking good! It's still under construction, but Great Britain's Paul Beales, Billy-Joe Whenman and Maddie Horton got to put their skills, and the course, to the test. It's gonna be a great place to be at Games time in 2012...
Maddie Horton of Great Britain tries one of the steep descents in Hadleigh Farm - venue for the London 2012 Olympic Games Mountain Bike competition - which is still under construction. Silver medallist in the 2010 British Cross Country Mountain Bike Championships, Maddie said: 'The course is great - much more hilly than I expected. I've ridden World Cup courses before, and this is definitely up there with the toughest.'
Paul Beales and Billy-Joe Whenman of Great Britain test a bridge section of Hadleigh Farm - the venue for the London 2012 Olympic Games Mountain Bike competition - which is still under construction. Billy-Joe commented: 'It's a really good course with lots of technical climbing and descending. Definitely very challenging.'
Paul Beales and Billy-Joe Whenman of Great Britain put their skills to the test on one of the sections of Hadleigh Farm - the venue for the London 2012 Olympic Games Mountain Bike competition - which is still under construction.