Romain Mahieu, BMX world champion, on track for Olympic gold

Romain Mahieu does a few laps to warm up in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Yvelines). “I started, I was three and a half, four years old, my father was doing motocross. We had a BMX track near our house, we went there together, we started together. Since I was four years old it was is the only Sport I did”, confides Romain Mahieu, BMX world champion. How does the training take place?

“Romain is a talent to train because he is someone with whom dialogue is quite easy and at the same time who knows what he has to do, who has acquired real maturity in his daily life as a sportsman. high level”specifies Julien Sastre, French BMX team coach. “It’s crazy to be world number one, that was my goal, I managed to win these world championships. […] The objective is clear, it is to go for the gold medal”indicates Romain Mahieu.