{"id":369718,"date":"2026-08-12T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369718\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:18:07","slug":"two-cape-coral-bmx-racers-bring-home-big-stories-from-world-championships-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369718\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Cape Coral BMX racers bring home big stories from World Championships | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Two Cape Coral<\/a> BMX racers returned home after representing Team USA at the World Championships in Australia.<\/p>\n

Eleven-year-old Remy Sessa came home with her third world title in four appearances. Fifteen-year-old Crosby Backer had a different experience but learned valuable lessons along the way.<\/p>\n

Sessa crossed the finish line in Australia to claim her latest championship.<\/p>\n

“Honestly, when I crossed the finish line, I was super excited,” Sessa said.<\/p>\n

Beyond BMX, Sessa said her family explored Australia, even getting up close to kangaroos. She comes home with another championship and bigger goals.<\/p>\n

“I’d like to get like Nat One out of all the amateurs, and I also want to get like Nat One for class on Cruiser,” Sessa said.<\/p>\n

\"Remy<\/p>\n

Sessa walked away from Australia with a plaque commemorating her achievement. She isn’t the only Cape Coral rider who left with a story to tell.<\/p>\n

Backer is no stranger to competing at the highest level.<\/p>\n

“I’ve gotten World Three before when it was in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and that was my best finish at Worlds that I’ve had,” Backer said.<\/p>\n

This time around, he was running inside the top 10 before a crash changed everything.<\/p>\n

“I was running good the first two motos, running top top 10, top eight, and in second place in the third round. And I slid out, you know, punched the ground when I slid out, popped a few fingers out, banged up the hip a little bit, and I still made it to the eighth finals, and just wasn’t enough,” Backer said.<\/p>\n

Backer finished 44th at the World Championships. It wasn’t the result he wanted, but he said it taught him something more important.<\/p>\n

“Keep your head up, and you know, don’t let small mistakes set you back further than they need to, and yeah, just keep moving forward,” Backer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Two Cape Coral BMX racers returned home after representing Team USA at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-369718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}