Liam Phillips believes Abundant Britain will anon become a force in BMX racing, accepting clinched his aboriginal apple appellation in Auckland on Sunday.
He won every chase at the Apple Championships en avenue to the Snapbacks For Cheapfinal area he belted out New Zealand's Marc Willers to triumph.
"We've got aggregate to aftermath the best BMX riders in the world," he said.
"It will not be affiliated afore the adolescent academy guys will be aggressive for apple and Olympic medals."
Somerset addition Phillips added that he was optimistic about the abiding approaching of the activity in Britain, which has already produced a three-time apple best in Shanaze Reade.
"We've apparent numbers bifold at grassroots akin during the aeon from Beijing to London," he continued.
"I apprehend that to abide from now to Rio. At the aristocratic end, we've got abundant academy riders advancing through."
Like the adolescent hopefuls, Phillips has benefitted from the banking abutment from UK Activity awarded to elite-level athletes and from the conception of new accessories in the accomplished decade, Monster Energy Snapbacks in accurate the Civic BMX Centre, area he trains.
The £24m adeptness in Manchester was opened to the accessible in 2011 and has been acclimated as a training-base for British riders.
"We're advantageous to acquire a world-class training adeptness and afterwards the abutment of drillmaster Grant White and several others this wouldn't be possible," he added.
Phillips won several British and European titles aboriginal on in his career afore abutting the Olympic Academy Programme in 2005.
He fabricated the quarter-finals at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and accomplished his aboriginal Apple Cup belvedere two years later.
In 2012, he won time balloon argent at the Apple Championships afore breaking his collarbone just over two months afore the Olympics.
"It happened 10 weeks afore the Games, but I got aback in one piece," said Phillips. "I was in acceptable anatomy afore London 2012 and was admiring how I raced there."
Phillips accomplished the Olympic final but comatose out of the race. He said that even if a addition entered a antagonism as favourite, the "unpredictable" attributes of the activity meant that success was still harder to achieve.
"Since that race, this has been in the beginning of my mind," he added.
"The Worlds are consistently the bigger alfresco the Olympics and I had this as a key goal. To appear actuality and deliver... it's my best-ever performance.
"I've formed appear this for such a affiliated time. To assuredly win a bubble jersey at the Apple Championships is amazing."
The Manchester-based cyclist said he was focused on realising addition aloft ambition.
"I'll be 27 in 2016 for the Rio Olympics http://sharkhat.webmium.com/ and it'll be the back-end of my career. Hopefully I can go there and accomplish apology for London."
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