BEIJING: World champion Maris Strombergs of Latvia won the men's BMX gold Friday, sweeping to the front at the start of the winner-take-all final and never losing control in the sport's first-ever Olympic finals.
The French duo of Anne-Caroline Chausson and Laetitia Le Corguille took gold and silver, respectively, in the women's title race.
"It wasn't easy," said Chausson. "All the mistakes I've made in the last few races, in the last few years, I tried to show nothing of them in these games."
"It's really the work of two years to end up here. It's an immense satisfaction to get to here," said Chausson, 30, after what she has said will be her last competitive BMX race.
BMX racing was born in the United States four decades ago, so perhaps it was fitting that on the sport's biggest day, American racers collected the biggest medal haul.
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