Seeding Run: 36.649sec. Seconds behind leader: +0.957 (19th place). Seeding Run leader: Mike Day Allier advances to Quarterfinals† Men's Quarter Finals (Overall after three motos of Run 4): 6th place; did not qualify for Semi Final*. Event Results Thursday August 21 Postponed due to rain. Event Results Friday August 22 Men's Semi Finals:DNQ Men's Final (Medal Round): DNQ Bronze medal winner: Donny Robinson Silver medal winner: Mike Day Gold medal winner:** Māris Štrombergs DNQ = Did Not Qualify. ‡Time Trial data from nbcolympics.com †Quarter Finals data from nbcolympics.com *Semi Finals data from nbcolympics.com **Final (Medal round) data from nbcolympics.com Allier's teammate on the Men's French team Damien Godet, the fourth member of the French team made the Men's Finals but came in last place with a DNF, Did Not Finish. His teammates the women's team Anne-Caroline Chausson and Laëtitia Le Corguillé won the first Gold and Silver medals respectively to be awarded in the Olympic Games for BMX. Independent Invitationals and Pro Series Championships Notable accolades Significant injuries Dislocated finger on left hand on 23 July 1998 Broke hand at the 1999 ABA Super Nationals in Desoto, Texas on day 1 in the last pro main. Soon after while cross training on his mountain bike he slipped a pedal resulting in the chainring imbedding itself into his right leg, tearing muscle. Suffered a shoulder/collarbone separation at the UCI World Championships in Louisville, Kentucky on the weekend of 26 July 2001. He crashed on the first set of jumps in the first straight. He had to miss the 2001 X Games Downhill BMX race. Racing habits and traits Miscellaneous Set the World Bunny Hoping record of 47" in 2001 at the BMX Plus! BMX Olympics, breaking Steve Veltman's previous record of 46" set in 1996. It still stands. He would later claim to have broken his own record unofficially by achieving a jump of 48" later in 2001. This is confirmed by some friends training with him : "Thomas could do some bunny hops at an insane altitude. As I was breaking at 95cm, I saw him succeeding several times at 120cm, making me feel I was crappy." He won the first Republic of China pro BMX race which was held in Taiyuan, China on Saturday 25 September 2004 (local time, east of the International Dateline). It was seen as either as a vehicle to have Taiyuan as an Olympic sports