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Home-dirt advantage: France has high medal hopes for BMX racing at Paris Olympics

France's Romain Mahieu takes part in a cycling BMX training session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games
France's Romain Mahieu takes part in a cycling BMX training session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Photo by Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images

Although the sport has its origins in California in the 1960s, BMX has been mastered by the French, who have amassed 50 gold medals in all classes at the world championships since 1982 — four more than the Americans.

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