PATRICK BREN COO kicked off his campaign to qualify for his first Olympics in Paris 2024 with a silver medal finish in the Indonesia BMX 2023 Round 1 at the Pulonas International BMX Center in Jakarta on Sunday.
'It was very, very close to the gold, but it's racing,' said the Filipino-American Coo, the Asian Juniors champion in 2021. 'But it's racing, you know what it is.'Indonesia's Gusti Bagus Saputra won gold in 33.919 seconds, with Coo finishing only .20 second behind and another Indonesian, Rio Akbar, settling for the bronze with a time of 34.346.Eleven riders raced in the final with Indonesia qualifying five more riders, South Korea with two and Thailand with one.
'We were given only some 15 minutes break in between races, unlike in other races and in the US where there are breaks are one hour or more.'Coo earned 86 International Cycling Union points out of the possible 100 points.Up next for Coo, whose family is Ilonggo, will be the Thailand BMX Cup 2—also a C1 UCI race that offers ranking points like the Jakarta event—on March 19 inCoo and Daniel Caluag are hoping to qualify for the Paris Olympics.
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