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.”
