“We don’t really realize it yet, I have been here for 10 years,” silver medallist Andre explained to Olympics.com, “it seems very normal so far, but I wish I watched it on TV, it must have been amazing! But I watched the replay and it’s great for us individually, for the sport, for France, and I think we will have time to realize this a bit later.”
Switzerland’s Cedric Butti only missed out on a medal by one hundredth of a second, but the French were simply too good. That is how high the quality on show was.
French sporting history written on home soil
As they crossed the finish line one by one, the French trio had done something no athletes had done in the last century. A first tricolour 1-2-3 in 100 years, fittingly since the last time Paris hosted the Games in 1924.
“Someone told me that about 100 years just before the racing,” Mahieu, who took bronze, told Olympics.com. “I think it was the dream of a lot of people to see us going 1-2-3. We’ve been talking about it for years. People wanted us to go 1-2-3 because we’ve never got a medal for BMX for men at least. But now we got three in one night.”
Not only did the Frenchmen seize a seismic 1-2-3, they did so in front of the president of the nation, something that attracted huge attention in the stands as he took a seat and spoke to volunteers.
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