One more season-owning shot for Canadian BMXers this weekend at the 2015 Supercross World Cup

With the BMX Supercross World Cup kicking off this weekend in Rock Hill, South Carolina, nine Canadian BMXers have a shot at the season’s ultimate world title — and one last chance to earn qualifying points for the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Competition starts Friday with the time trial, followed on Saturday by the BMX Supercross motos and finals.

The track in Rock Hill is expected to be a dizzying, intense one, its pace launching into a series of high-acceleration turns and jumps almost as soon as the start ramp meets the dirt. For this weekend’s gravity-defying competitors, the course, in kind, opens up opportunity after fast, pulse-pounding opportunity to get some serious air — something that videos of the course, like the one published below, amply attest.

Canada’s roster of competing riders is like one big parade of the country’s top BMX talent this season, representing a range of classes. In the Elite men’s division, Tory Nyhaug, James Palmer and Jim Brown are scheduled to start. The Junior men’s class, meanwhile, sees Kiran Kawa, Gaby Malenfant, Alex Tougas and Chris White competing, while the Junior women are represented by Daina Tuchsherer and Drew Mechielsen.

At the 2015 Canada Cup BMX competition in Calgary, Tuchsherer claimed top results in the Junior women’s class. Tougas, from Pitt Meadows, B.C., was best overall in that event’s male division. Nyhaug, of course, with James Palmer in second place and James Brown in third, mounted the top of the podium at the Drummondville, Que. BMX championships.

This weekend’s competition kicks off at Rock Hill’s Novant Health BMX Supercross Track on Friday, when competitors roll out in time trial competition. Rock Hill will also be the site of the UCI BMX World Championships in 2017.