This weekend sees each the boys’s and girls’s street races on the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games. Beginning and ending within the shadow of the Eiffel Tower on the Trocadero, each males’s and girls’s programs head south-west out of town to tackle a demanding collection of hills, earlier than heading again for the intense lights of town of affection.
The lads’s and girls’s races, held on Saturday and Sunday respectively, will see a lot smaller fields than many rivals can be used to within the WorldTour, with simply 95 ladies lining up on Sunday.
The groups are small too, with a most 4 riders versus seven in Grand Excursions such because the Tour de France Femmes. This implies the race goes to that a lot more durable to manage, even for ultra-strong nations such because the Netherlands and Belgium, who can be fielding a number of present and former world champions between them.
The truth that there aren’t any race radios will solely add to the shortage of predictability, and performed an enormous half within the end result at Tokyo, gained solo by Austria’s Anna Kiesenhofer – she was adopted in by Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands), who celebrated as she crossed the road, not figuring out Kiesenhofer had already gained.
Van Vleuten is now retired, however Kiesenhofer is again to defend her title at Paris. She is prone to meet a robust problem from Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky and Demi Vollering of the Netherlands.
The 2-rider US workforce options Chloe Dygert, who gained time trial bronze final weekend, plus Vuelta Femenina stage winner Kristen Faulkner.
A powerful Nice Britain workforce options Anna Henderson, who has already gained time trial silver, plus 2012 street race silver medallist Lizzie Deignan and fast-finishing all-rounder Pfeiffer Georgi.
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