Olympics-Cycling-Backyard BMX park vaults Australia’s Martin to freestyle gold

Australia’s Logan Martin won the inaugural men’s Olympic BMX freestyle event on Sunday, a feat he said was thanks to his ingenious training regimen during the pandemic that involved building a BMX park in his backyard. Martin, 27, finished his first run of the finals with 93.30 points, landing technically complicated tricks like the switch triple tail in what he later called his “safety run”. Martin, who lives in Australia’s Gold Coast with his family, said he was able to train through the pandemic because his friend, a professional BMX rider and carpenter, helped him build a world-class skate park https://www.instagram.com/loganmartinbmx right behind his home.

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Teenagers make 200 final in Olympic testosterone controversy

Two 18-year-old Namibian runners threw track and field’s contentious testosterone issue back into the Olympic spotlight Monday when they blazed into the women’s 200-meter final in Tokyo just weeks after being barred from the 400-meter race. One of them, Christine Mboma, broke the world under-20 record twice in the span of about eight hours at the Olympic Stadium on the way to the 200 final. Mboma finished second behind Elaine Thompson-Herah, the defending Olympic champion.

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