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Paris Olympics: BMX Racing comeback gold for Australia’s Saya Sakakibara while Joris Daudet leads French medals sweep


Australia won another gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games when Saya Sakakibara claimed the women’s BMX Racing event at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines BMX Stadium outside of Paris, France, on Friday. Her victory comes after she forged on toward the Tokyo Olympics after her brother suffered a traumatic brain injury in a race accident only to then be left with concussion after crashing in the semifinals three years ago.

“It is crazy. I feel that it’s a dream. It is real, right?,” Sakakibara said. “Every setback I had … I thought, ‘I am going to give this another crack’, I just had that in mind. I didn’t want to leave here without making myself proud, make these setbacks worthwhile.”

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