Joris Daudet leads French sweep of BMX podium

(Photo credit: REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes)

PARIS -- Joris Daudet led a French clean sweep of the podium in men's BMX racing on Friday, finally bringing French riders the Olympic medals that had so long eluded them.

His compatriots Sylvain Andre and Romain Mahieu took silver and bronze in front of an ecstatic home crowd in the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines stadium to chants of "allez les bleus."

In the presence of French Presid