USA Biking right now unveiled the official Group USA biking kits for the Paris 2024 Olympics. Made by attire producer CUORE, the kits retain the long-lasting white from the Tokyo Olympics and embody stars representing the 5 disciplines of biking: Highway, Mountain Bike, Observe, BMX Racing, and BMX Freestyle.
Each self-discipline will sport the identical design, which USA Biking says is supposed to ‘unite American biking on the world’s largest stage’.
“With all of the athletes sporting the identical design of their distinctive gear, it brings collectively the brand new trendy period of Olympic sports activities like BMX Racing, which debuted at Beijing 2008, and BMX Freestyle, launched at Tokyo 2020, whereas nonetheless honouring its legacy with occasions equivalent to Highway, which have been included within the Olympic programming for the reason that first trendy Olympic Video games at Athens 1896,” USA Biking defined.
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Aesthetics apart, CUORE designed the kits with the anticipated excessive summer season temperatures in thoughts. Optimsed for cooling and luxury, a high-tech mesh material is featured closely. Moreover, the all-new Gold Velocity Go well with, utilized by monitor, time trial and street racers alike, was wind tunnel examined to “obtain optimum efficiency in a sport the place victories are sometimes determined by mere fractions of a second.”
USA Biking shared {that a} duplicate package will probably be out there by way of CUORE quickly.
Group USA has 23 athletes competing within the Olympic biking disciplines. For the time trial and street racing occasions, the five-member workforce will probably be led by two-time Olympic medalist Chloe Dygert (Canyon-SRAM) and reigning U.S. nationwide time trial champion Brandon McNulty (UAE Group Emirates), who’s attending his second Olympics.
Dygert will probably be joined by triathlon star Taylor Knibb, who punched her ticket to Paris by successful the 2024 USA Biking Time Trial Nationwide Championships in Charleston, West Virginia, in Could. Each Knibb and Dygert are doing double responsibility in Paris. Each athletes are competing within the street race and time trial, whereas Dygert will even race on the monitor, and Knibb will compete a powerful 4 instances as she’s contesting the person triathlon and blended relay occasions as properly.
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McNulty will probably be joined by Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers) and Matteo Jorgenson (Group Visma – Lease a Bike) — each making their Olympic debuts in Paris. McNulty and Sheffield will compete in each the time trial and street race, whereas Jorgenson will focus his efforts solely on the street race.
On the velodrome, Dygert will probably be a part of the workforce pursuit alongside four-time Olympic medalist Jennifer Valente (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24), who’s additionally making her third Olympic look, Lily Williams (Human Powered Well being), U.S. nationwide street race champion Kristen Faulkner (EF Schooling-Cannondale) and Olivia Cummins (DNA Professional Biking). Williams and Valente will even pair as much as contest the Madison race.
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Grant Koontz (Trak Star Biking) is the only real U.S. male contender in monitor biking on the Paris Olympic Video games. He’ll be representing the celebs and stripes within the Omnium race.
Click on right here to learn extra about Group USA’s street choice, and right here for the monitor workforce.
