• At just 22 years old, Emma Jouteau is a specialist in Supercross, a discipline created by the UCI to make competitions more spectacular and present at the Olympics.

  • In Nantes for the French championships (July 15 to 17) then the world championships (July 26 to 31), the rider will evolve at home, "in front of all [her] family", she who is licensed in Loire-Atlantique.

  • The young woman aims to participate in the 2024 Paris Games. “It remains in the objective and dream box at the same time.

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She will be at home, "in front of my whole family", she smiles.

And she can't wait.

Emma Jouteau, licensed at BMX Savenay in Loire-Atlantique and former resident of the Carquefou club, will line up for the French BMX championships, which will take place at the Nantes exhibition center from July 15 to 17, then the championships of the world at the end of the month in the same place.

At just 22 years old, Emma Jouteau is a specialist in Supercross, a discipline created by the UCI to make competitions more spectacular [starting from a hill at 7-8 m and the presence of obstacles allowing longer jumps] and present at the Olympics.

And she is one of the very best French women.

“Currently, I am 1st of the U23 on the Coupes de France and 4th among the elites on the Coupes de France”, enumerates, proudly,

It must be said that when the young woman got on a BMX, she was tall as three apples.

“I was six years old, says the one who is a kitchen clerk near Lyon.

Basically, I wanted to do basketball and my older brother, three years older than me, motocross.

And one day, my father took us both to see an initiation BMX demonstration in La Romagne near Angers.

I had never heard of this sport.

This moment will be decisive in the life of Emma Jouteau.

"It's been a real passion for more than fifteen years," she confesses.

I love the adrenaline that this sport provides.

BMX allowed me to meet so many people too.

And then, I've toured Europe several times over the past few years.

I discovered the United States, Azerbaijan, etc.

" Over the years,

Emma Jouteau asserts herself as one of the best BMX riders at the departmental, then regional, then national level.

She rubs shoulders with the best.

She offers herself a title of vice-champion of France cadets in 2016 or a 6th place at the world junior championships in 2018.

His mother never watches his shopping

The year 2019 marks the beginning of a big galley.

“I seriously injured myself by breaking my hip and the whole pubic system on a fall.

“A wound that is struggling to heal.

"I've come across it several times.

» The risks of this discipline… « BMX is an extreme sport.

My mother never watches the races, admits Emma Jouteau.

And my father has since feared that I would hurt myself again.

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Family anxiety does not slow the young woman down.

Nor the absence of professional prospects for this discipline.

“Among women, no one lives from it.

And there are very few among men, maybe two or three.

At the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Anne-Caroline Chausson and Laetitia Le Corguillé scored a French double in the final of the women's BMX event.

A fleeting spotlight.

Immediately on, almost immediately off, even if a small boom among the licensed girls is felt in the weeks after the Olympics.

Those of Paris in 2024 would also be a culmination for Emma Bouteau.

“It remains in the objective and dream box at the same time”, concludes the resident of the Savenay club.

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