Benjamin Thomas of France thrilled his residence nation’s Olympic velodrome, lapping the sphere with three different riders to take the primary race within the males’s Omnium on Thursday on the Paris Olympic Video games.
Thomas completed forward of breakaway companions Niklas Larsen (Denmark) and Fabio Van Den Bossche (Belgium) to take the lead within the four-race occasion, with the Netherlands Jan-Willem van Schip ending fourth out of the transfer that lapped the sphere.
The race began with an early assault Tim Torn Teutenerg (Germany), whereas world champion Iuri Leitao (Portugal) launched his signature transfer with 26 laps nonetheless to go. This time, Aaron Gate (New Zealand) was smart to the transfer however the peloton weren’t letting the world Omnium champion get away so simply as he did in Glasgow.
Then it was the flip of Thomas, who ignited the hometown crowd with a short assault with 21 laps remaining. Grant Koontz (USA) countered the transfer and obtained the largest hole to date, being chased by Van Den Bossche.
Van Schip bridged throughout with Thomas and Larsen making for a harmful five-man transfer with 15 laps to go that exploded the race, however Koontz was sadly dropped and located himself chasing for the remainder of the lap with two dropped riders who couldn’t pull by means of.
Van Schip, Van Den Bossche, Larsen and Thomas closed in on the peloton with 7 laps to go, and the win would come from the 4 riders. Koontz fought to carry off the chase however was caught because the dash opened up behind Japan’s Kuboki Kazushige.
France’s Thomas surged within the peloton behind and took out the win with Larsen and Van Den Bossche in second and third.
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Scratch race outcomes
Rank
Rider (Nation)
Time
1
Benjamin Thomas (France)
Row 0 – Cell 2
2
Niklas Larsen (Denmark)
Row 1 – Cell 2
3
Fabio van den Bossche (Belgium)
Row 2 – Cell 2
4
Jan Willem van Schip (Netherlands)
Row 3 – Cell 2
5
Kazushige Kuboki (Japan)
-1 Lap
6
Ethan Hayter (Nice Britain)
-1 Lap
7
Iuri Leitao (Portugal)
-1 Lap
8
Albert Torres Barcelo (Spain)
-1 Lap
9
Aaron Gate (New Zealand)
-1 Lap
10
Tim Torn Teutenberg (Germany)
-1 Lap
11
Alex Vogel (Switzerland)
-1 Lap
12
Elia Viviani (Italy)
-1 Lap
13
Tim Wafler (Austria)
-1 Lap
14
Sam Welsford (Australia)
-1 Lap
15
Grant Koontz (United States Of America)
-1 Lap
16
Dylan Bibic (Canada)
-1 Lap
17
Jan Vones (Czech Republic)
-1 Lap
18
Bernard van Aert (Indonesia)
-1 Lap
19
Alan Banaszek (Poland)
-1 Lap
20
Fernando Gaviria Rendon (Colombia)
-2 Lap
21
Ricardo Pena Salas (Mexico)
-2 Lap
22
Youssef Abouelhassan (Egypt)
-4 Lap
Race 2: Tempo race
Within the second race of the lads’s Omnium, the Tempo Race Portugal’s Leitao as soon as once more attacked for the opening dash, adopted carefully by Thomas and Gate. Leitao took the primary three sprints whereas Gate took the third however the peloton have been eager to the problem they usually have been caught.
Thomas adopted the counter transfer from Denmark’s Larsen and Van den Bossche (Belgium) to assert some extent earlier than the Belgian attacked solo and took out seven sprints earlier than latching onto the again of the sphere to earn 20 factors for lapping up.
Teutenberg (Germany), Leitao, Jan Vones (Czechia), Koontz and Alex Vogel (Switzerland) then attacked to try to achieve a lap. As they neared the rear of the sphere, Vones attacked to steal the lap however a surge within the subject made the remainder of the attackers battle to catch the sphere, however they did with 10 laps to go.
Van Den Bossche launched one other late transfer to comb up extra dash factors, coming away with 11 in whole, along with 20 factors for lapping the sphere, he gained the Tempo race with 31 factors. Leitao was second with 28 whereas Teutenberg additionally improved his fortunes with third place within the Tempo.
With the consequence, the Belgian took the lead within the standings after two races with 76 factors, Larsen second with 68 and Leitao third with 66 factors.
