Tokyo 2020 Olympics - BMX Racing - Women's Individual - Quarterfinal - AUP - Ariake Urban Sports Park, Tokyo, Japan – July 29, 2021. Sae Hatakeyama of Japan crashes. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
TOKYO (Reuters) - Less than a minute. That's all it took for Japanese BMX rider Sae Hatakeyama's Olympic dreams to crash as she fell and broke her collarbone in her very first run of BMX racing's quarter-finals on Thursday.
Hatakeyama's exit will prove to be particularly painful for hometown fans, who also saw her male counterpart fail to qualify for the semi-finals.
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