LONDON (AP) — Maris Strombergs of Latvia won his second straight Olympic gold medal in BMX on Friday, taking the lead out of the starting gate and never relinquishing it.
Strombergs won the first Olympic competition, at Beijing in 2008, but has struggled with injuries the past couple years. A particularly hard crash in November 2010 that broke his wrist required two rounds of surgery and kept him out about six months.
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