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 ...

Felicia Stancil lost her mother at age 3. Exactly one year after her death, Stancil’s father introduced her to BMX racing, a sport that he competed professionally in for years. Stancil, a BMX racing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michelle Bruton covers action sports and the Olympics and Paralympics. When BMX freestyle made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo 2020 ...

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 ...