Juliette Labous, Audrey Cordon-Ragot, and Victoire Berteau have secured the three coveted spots on the elite ladies’s group that may signify France within the street race on August 4 on the Paris Olympic Video games, the Fédération Français de Cyclisme (FFC) confirmed on Tuesday.
Labous and Cordon-Ragot will even compete within the particular person time trial on July 27.
France certified three spots to the elite ladies’s street race the place Labous, Cordon-Ragot and Berteau will signify their nation within the 158km occasion that may begin and end on the Eiffel Tower on the Pont d’Iéna between the tower and the Trocadéro Gardens. The ladies will race a bigger loop of 110km earlier than returning to finish two laps of an 18.4km circuit.
Labous, who’s at present sixth within the UCI World Rating, was the only rider representing France within the ladies’s street occasions on the Tokyo Olympics Video games. She completed ninth within the time trial and thirtieth within the street race. This season, she has completed within the high 10 at Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, fourth general at La Vuelta Femenina, and third general at Itzulia Girls.
“Very completely satisfied and proud to announce my choice for the time trial and street race! Two extra brief months of preparation to be on high on July 27 and August 4. Thanks FFC for the belief given,” Labous wrote in a submit on Instagram.
Cordon-Ragot brings expertise to the group, having competed within the earlier two Olympic Video games. Berteau is the reigning French Champion within the street race and in addition goals to compete within the monitor occasions. She additionally had a robust Spring Classics marketing campaign, ending fifth at Ronde van Drenthe and eighth at Paris-Roubaix.
“Very proud and completely satisfied to announce my choice for the Olympic Video games on-line race! Cannot wait to defend the colors on probably the most stunning sporting occasion! Because of the FFC for its assist and confidence. On the best way to creating historical past,” wrote Berteau.
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Lacking out on the choice was Évita Muzic, who took to social media to precise her disappointment however mentioned she would as an alternative flip her consideration to the Tour de France Femmes, held after the Video games.
“The street biking occasion on the Paris Olympics 2024 was a dream. I cannot be taking part in that. The selector determined in any other case, and I can solely settle for that call with bitterness and remorse,” Muzic wrote on Instagram.
“Bitter as a result of I used to be making this race a significant objective of my season. The Paris Video games are the occasion of the century, a novel alternative to shine the blue-white-red flag at house, snag a medal and encourage future generations of our sport.”
Muzic is the second-ranked Frenchwoman within the UCI Rankings in nineteenth, whereas Berteau is forty third and Cordon Ragot a hundred and first.
The 25-year-old has had a standout season and is at present in eighth general within the Girls’s WorldTour with high performances that included fourth at Flèche Wallonne, a stage win and fifth general at La Vuelta Femenina and second general at Vuelta a Burgos.
“Remorse additionally as a result of, with my performances for the reason that starting of the season, my victory on the Vuelta and the outcomes achieved on explosive circuits that correspond to the course of the Video games, I believed I had confirmed the relevance of my choice. That is what I believed,” Muzic wrote.
“I might nonetheless be, and clearly, one of many greatest supporters of the French group. Sports activities life is stuffed with disappointments that you must study to money in, to develop into stronger. Watching the Tour de France Girls now, extra decided than ever.”
