Olympic Video games, 2024
Location: Paris, France
Dates: July 27 – August 11, 2024
Occasions: street, observe, mountain bike and BMX
Helpful hyperlinks: Occasion schedule | Highway race and time trial programs | Males’s street race begin listing | Ladies’s street race begin listing | Males’s time trial begin listing | Ladies’s time trial begin listing | Information to trace biking | Information to mountain biking
Whereas biking of each flavour has its main annual occasions through which every rider strives for achievement, each 4 years a chance arises to take a uncommon and historic gold medal on the Olympic Video games.
For the Paris 2024 Olympic biking occasions, nonetheless, the riders have had simply three years years. Initially scheduled for July/August 2020, the Tokoyo Video games have been moved to 2021 because of the Covid pandemic. So there will probably be new winners simply three years on.
There will probably be 4 several types of biking on present in Paris and its environs: street, observe, BMX and mountain biking, with many sub-disciplines a part of that.
The street time trials come first, awarding a number of the first medals of the Olympics on Saturday 27 July, with the street races following per week after – the lads on Saturday 3 August, and the ladies the day after on Sunday 4 August.
Lots of the world’s greatest riders from the skilled street peloton will probably be in attendance, with reigning world champions Lotte Kopecky (Belgium) and Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands) sizzling favourites within the street races. Defending girls’s champion Ana Kiesenhofer (Austria) will probably be there, however she is unlikely to shock the sector once more. In the meantime, Richard Carapaz (Ecuador), gold medallist at Tokyo, has not be chosen.
There will probably be a brand new champion within the girls’s time trial, with Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands) having retired since final time round, whereas it’s not but recognized if Primož Roglič (Slovenia) will sort out it but.
In fact there’s far more than street biking on the Olympic Video games, with a bunch of observe occasions to get pleasure from, six in complete: the group pursuit, the omnium, the Madison, the dash, the group dash, and the keirin. All of the observe occasions happen between 5 August and the ultimate day of the Video games on 11 August.
Elsewhere, there will be the ladies’s and males’s cross-country mountain biking races, which happen on Sunday 28 July and Monday 29 July, respectively.
Lastly there’s the 2 BMX occasions, making their return for the second time, Freestyle and the Racing. The Freestyle takes place on Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 July, with the Racing on Thursday 1 and Friday 2 August.
Highway occasions
The one race you can actually evaluate the Olympics street race to is the World Championships. Each races are often primarily based round circuits, with riders competing for his or her nations and never their commerce groups.
Nevertheless, groups are a lot smaller than World Championships, with the most important squads within the street races boasting simply 4 riders, which makes it very attention-grabbing tactically. Many groups have only one rider in the entire occasion.
Within the Olympics, riders have to attend for one more 4, or 5, on this case, years earlier than having one other go at profitable. Within the World Championships, riders can strive each 12 months. There aren’t too many possibilities to go for a gold medal in knowledgeable profession, so it attracts a area of world-class expertise.
Observe occasions
After the street occasions, we see the observe riders take to the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome on Monday, August 2 by to Sunday, August 8.
The riders will compete within the group pursuit, dash, group dash, omnium, the keirin and the Madison. The pursuit, omnium and Madison are what are referred to as “endurance” occasions, suiting some street riders too, whereas the sprints and the keirin are dash occasions, for pure powerhouses.
For an in-depth clarification of every occasion, take a look at our information to trace biking disciplines.
Paris 2024 Olympic biking schedule
Highway races
Saturday 3 August, males’s street race, 10am-5:15pm, (273km)
Sunday 4 August, girls’s street race, 1pm-5:45pm (158km)
Time trials
Saturday 27 July, males’s and ladies’s particular person time trials, 2:30pm-6:30pm (each 32.4km)
Observe
Monday 5 August, 5pm
Ladies’s Staff Dash, qualifying
Males’s, Staff Pursuit, qualifying
Ladies’s Staff Dash, first spherical
Males’s Staff Dash, qualifying
Ladies’s Staff Dash, finals
Tuesday 6 August, 5:30pm
Ladies’s Staff Pursuit, qualifying
Males’s Staff Dash, first spherical
Males’s Staff Pursuit, first spherical
Males’s Staff Dash, finals
Wednesday 7 August, 12:45pm
Males’s Dash, qualifying
Ladies’s Keirin, first spherical
Ladies’s Staff Pursuit, first spherical
Males’s Dash, 1/32 finals and repechages, 1/16 finals, and 1/8 finals and repechanges
Ladies’s Keirin, first spherical and repechages
Males’s Staff Pursuit, finals
Ladies’s Staff Pursuit, finals
Thursday 8 August, 5:30pm
Males’s Omnium, Scratch Race 14
Males’s Dash, quarter finals
Ladies’s Keirin, quarter finals, semi finals, and finals
Males’s Dash, quarter finals
Males’s Omnium, Tempo Race 24
Males’s Omnium, Elimination Race 34
Males’s Omnium, Factors Race 44
Friday 9 August, 2:30pm
Ladies’s Dash, qualifying
Males’s Dash, semi finals, and finals
Ladies’s Dash, 1/32 finals and repechages, 1/16 finals and repechages
Ladies’s Madison, ultimate
Ladies’s Dash 1/16 Finals
Saturday, 10 August, 5:00pm
Ladies’s Dash, 1/8 finals, and quarter finals
Males’s Keirin, first spherical and repechages
Males’s Keirin Repechages
Males’s Madison, ultimate
Sunday, 11 August, 11:00am
Ladies’s Omnium, Scratch Race 1/4
Ladies’s Dash, semi finals and finals
Males’s Keirin, quarter finals, semi finals and finals
Ladies’s Omnium, Tempo Race 2/4
Ladies’s Omnium. Elimination Race 3/4
Ladies’s Omnium. Factors Race 4/4
BMX
Tuesday 30 July, BMX Freestyle Qualification, 12:25pm
Wednesday 31 July, BMX Freestyle Finals, 12:10pm
Thursday 1 August, BMX Racing Qualifiers, 7pm
Friday 2 August, BMX Racing Finals, 7pm
MTB
Sunday 28 July, Ladies’s Cross Nation, 1pm
Monday 29 July, Males’s Cross Nation, 1pm
Reigning champions: Rio 2016 Olympic biking winners
- Males’s street race: Richard Carapaz (Ecuador)
- Ladies’s street race: Anna Kiesenhofer (Austria)
- Males’s time trial: Primož Roglič (Slovenia)
- Ladies’s time trial: Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands)
- Males’s group dash: Netherlands
- Ladies’s group dash: China
- Males’s group pursuit: Italy
- Ladies’s group pursuit: Germany
- Males’s dash: Harrie Lavreysen (Netherlands)
- Ladies’s dash: Kelsey Mitchell (Canada)
- Males’s keirin: Jason Kenny (Nice Britain)
- Ladies’s keirin: Shanne Braspennincx (Netherlands)
- Males’s omnium: Matt Partitions (Nice Britain)
- Ladies’s omnium: Jennifer Valente (United States)
- Males’s Madison: Denmark
- Ladies’s Madison: Nice Britain
- Males’s BMX race: Niek Kimmann (Netherlands
- Ladies’s BMX race: Beth Shriever (Nice Britain)
- Males’s BMX freestyle: Logan Martin (Australia)
- Ladies’s BMX freestyle: Charlotte Worthington (Nice Britain)
- Males’s mountain bike: Tom Pidcock (Nice Britain)
- Ladies’s mountain bike: Jolanda Neff (Switzerland)
