The Olympic BMX competition rode into action Wednesday morning, and one of the daredevils already crashed. American Brooke Crain took a dive in the seeding race and had to be helped off the course.

BMX racing is often described as NASCAR on two wheels, only stock car racing is probably safer. The discipline, which was added to the Olympic program in 2008 in Beijing, involves eight riders at a ...

When Kai Sakakibara stood up for the first time three months after the accident that nearly claimed his life, he thought he could simply get back on the bike and go about winning BMX titles the way he ...