Anthony Jeanjean at the Olympics: Olympic bronze after a terrible accident for the BMX ace

3rd and bronze medalist in the final of the Olympic Games in BMX street, Anthony Jeanjean imposed as one of the best in the discipline, making us forget the violent fall that almost ended his career in 2018.

Anthony Jeanjean won the bronze medal at the Paris Olympics in BMW street, a spectacular discipline where you have to string together tricks to get the best possible score. His fall during the first run of Anthony Jeanjean's final temporarily froze the atmosphere at the Concorde, but his second run set things on fire, without however allowing him to ultimately beat the Argentinian Torres Gil, gold medalist ahead of the Briton Kieran Reilly. His bronze medal still has the taste of a beautiful revenge.

7th in the Tokyo Olympics after a fall in the final, the Frenchman almost lost everything three years earlier in a much more violent fall. The Béziers native, now a triple European champion, fell several meters in training in June 2018 while trying a brand new trick to add to his range of “tricks”.

The diagnosis is then final, as he recalled a few months later in an interview with Ouest-France after its bronze medal at the 2022 Worlds. "It'éwas a big hit, it was a big hit, ucirc;r. I landed at flat on his stomach, he then recounted before detailing the injuries suffered: "Perforation of the bladder, crushing of the lungs and fracture of the kidney. I lost consciousness." The BMX street ace will spend three weeks in intensive care before standing firm with the doctors. An end of career as mentioned in ? "Never in life", he replied. The first question I asked the m's ;eacute;docins, it's : "When will I be able to resume ?" BMX is my whole life, I devote all my days to it, so it was out of the question. It’s simply part of our sport. " Anthony Jeanjean will return to training just three months later before winning his first European title a year later!

The accident and its aftermath still changed some habits in the life of Anthony Jeanjean. He said he was “less foufou”, a character trait perceptible during qualifications where the competition was over. he assuredé to take 5th qualifying place, without showing his best tricks or revealing his best cards. As the Olympic Games approach, at home, management was also able to become professional. "Today, there is really everything to prevent this from happening again, he admitted in 2022. The process of learning our tricks is a lot less dangerous than ' time. We are first trying out foam boxes, then resin ones before working on classic playpens, he is delighted. ;Personally, I'm less crazy than before. I listen to my body more when it's tired. The key success and a first French Olympic medal won this Wednesday in this young discipline…