Reilly secures Olympic BMX spot but Worthington 'in limbo'

British BMX rider Kieran Reilly qualified for his maiden Olympics but defending champion Charlotte Worthington faces an anxious hold aft missing retired astatine nan Olympic Qualifier Series successful Budapest.

Reilly, nan men’s freestyle parkland world champion, was 3rd successful nan first limb of nan OQS successful Shanghai past period and different third-place decorativeness connected Sunday was capable for nan 22-year-old to clinch 2nd overall.

"It's beautiful surreal," he told BBC Sport. "The past half hr I've been laughing, because if I didn't laugh, I deliberation I'd outcry [through joy]."

Worthington placed 12th successful Shanghai and a 10th-place decorativeness successful Budapest was not capable to book her spot - but she tin still qualify.

The 27-year-old said she feels "in limbo" arsenic location are different 5 quota places that will beryllium allocated based connected results from nan 2022 Urban Cycling World Championships aliases 2023 World Cycling Championships, wherever Worthington came 5th and seventh, respectively.

But privilege is fixed to National Olympic Committees from a continent not yet qualified, and if nan British Olympic Association (BOA) is awarded a spot, they must determine who to return retired of Worthington and Sasha Pardoe, aliases Jude Jones and Dylan Hessey connected nan men’s team.

Elsewhere successful Budapest connected Saturday, skateboarder Sky Brown, who became GB's youngest Olympic medallist successful 2021 erstwhile she won bronze successful Tokyo astatine conscionable 13, reached nan women's parkland final.

Brown, who turns 16 adjacent month, failed successful her bid to suffice for nan Olympic surfing event but will compete astatine Paris 2024 sloppy of Sunday's skateboarding last arsenic she is classed 3rd successful nan world and nan apical 20 qualify.

Sport climber Erin McNeice, 19, will compete successful nan women's boulder and lead last connected Sunday, and is good placed to suffice having vanished 3rd successful Shanghai.