Australia’s Saya Sakakibara blitzed the rest of the field to win gold in the women’s BMX racing event at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Saya Sakakibara of Australia embraces her brother Kai after winning gold in the BMX racing final at the Paris Olympics in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.Saya Sakakibara of Australia embraces her brother Kai after winning gold in the BMX racing final at the Paris Olympics in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.The setbacks for Saya Sakakibara just didn’t let up. The trauma from her brother’s BMX accident, gnawing at her in the months before Tokyo.
Rest and medication may have helped her recover from the virus, but the feeling of that initial dismay hasn’t left her. “Your mind goes to the worst case scenario of like, I’m missing this and I can’t believe this is how it ends. But, you know, I still had time on my side.” “Those are the moments that made me really dig deep, really go internal and just find myself with BMX again,” she said.
“If the conditions aren’t right, if it’s a bit windy, that triggers things in her, and we just have to reset, reprocess or sometimes just scrap the day and start again,” he said. “In all honesty, probably the last three or four weeks, I’ve just seen the biggest change that I ever have, and I knew that coming into this we were on something special.”
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