SOONER NATIONALS
PULL Magazine|March 2020
The BMX world loves them some Tulsa - and it usually coincides with a turkey dinner. But this time ‘round, stop #3 on the USA BMX circuit was for the Sooner Nationals, held inside the Ford Truck Arena (right across the parking lot from the Grands Expo). And much like the Grands, the main event action kept getting more excit ing right up until the final main.
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SOONER NATIONALS

While many of the World’s top Elite pros were down unda’ waiting for clouds to clear in Bathurst, USA BMX saw a couple of AA-pros show up at Sooners for some early-season, indoor action. Throdwn’s Kenny G and Texan Tanner “T-Bone” Sebesta joined a bunch of the Marian University team and A-pros to kick off the weekend. This was the first race back for Sebesta, after healing up from a crash last year. On his time-off, he’s been doing a lot of coaching, working with a lot of Texan amateur racers - and he’d just became a dad for the second time, with the arrival of a daughter a week earlier. “I was lucky to get away to come here,” he admitted.

In the end, though - even T-Bone couldn’t catch the speed and smoothness of Kenny-G, who took his tan and black Throdwn to easy wins all three days. With 2020 being an Olympic year, a rider like Kenny-G could put himself in serious contention for the USA BMX No.1 Pro title while the other guys are focused on that big little race in Tokyo this summer.

This story is from the March 2020 edition of PULL Magazine.

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