Place de la Concorde, Paris CNN —Triumph and tragedy are everywhere you look at the Olympics, and the men’s BMX park final on Wednesday had a surfeit of both.
Martin crashed on both of his runs, his title defense wilting in the Paris heat, while Jeanjean recovered superbly on his second run to take a hard-earned bronze medal.
As for the triumph, take José Torres Gil, the Argentinian rider who won his country’s first individual gold medal in a cycling discipline with a stunning initial score of 94.82.
Great Britain’s Keiran Reilly took silver after packing trick after trick into his second run, hauling himself above Jeanjean with the final act of the competition.
“It’s not easy at all when you’ve been training day-in, day-out for a year and you fall on the first trick, the first run,” Jeanjean said.
Persons:
– Australia’s, Logan Martin, France’s, Anthony Jeanjean –, Martin, Jeanjean, José Torres Gil, “, ”, Torres Gil, Britain’s Keiran Reilly, Anthony Jeanjean, Markus Gilliar, Torres, –, that’s, Kieran Reilly, Alex Broadway, you’ve, ” Jeanjean, ” Torres, Reilly, Marcus Christopher, Justin Dowell
Organizations:
Concorde, Paris CNN —, Olympics, Urban Sports, Tokyo Olympics, Frenchman, Games, Getty, Pan American
Locations:
Paris, sprawled, Europe, Tokyo, American