The world’s finest cyclists will race in Paris this summer season, not on the Tour de France or Tour de France Femmes however for Olympic gold on the roads of the capital, on the Paris velodrome and on the mountain bike and BMX tracks.
Following their Tour de France exploits, Tadej Pogačar and Remco Evenepoel will even race in Paris however face robust opposition within the prestigious highway race from Mathieu van der Poel, Wout van Aert and plenty of others although within the 275km highway race that’s akin to a Spring Basic.
Demi Vollering, Lotte Kopecky, and Lorena Wiebes will lput their professional staff friendships to 1 aspect as they vie to ship for his or her respective nations within the 158km ladies’s highway race.
The time trial are the primary highway occasions on August 27, with the highway races per week afterward August 3 and 4.
Some riders will compete within the time trials as a warm-up for the highway races, whereas specialists like Filippo Ganna will go on to race on the observe.
All eyes will likely be on dwelling favorite Pauline Ferrand-Prévot within the ladies’s mountain bike race as she makes a ultimate bid to grow to be Olympic champion earlier than calling time on her fats tyre profession. Tokyo mountain bike gold medalist Tom Pidcock headlines a high quality subject within the males’s occasion.
Observe racing is an Olympic stalwart, having been current at each fashionable Video games other than the 1912 version in Stockholm. Six occasions supply an opportunity to win a gold medal on the observe, with Italy seeking to defend their success within the males’s staff pursuit and defeat Nice Britain within the ladies’s staff pursuit.
We’ll convey you around-the-clock protection, with race experiences, interviews, information and evaluation of all of the motion from the highway, mountain biking, and observe occasions on the Olympic Video games.
Our Paris 2024 protection
Stephen Farrand and Laura Wieslo will likely be in Paris for Cyclingnews to report on all of the highway, observe, and mountain biking motion on the Olympic Video games.
They’ll be supported by the Cyclingnews staff in Europe, North America and Australia, making certain you don’t miss any of the motion.
Forward of the Video games, we’ll interview among the huge names going for Olympic glory, present detailed explainers on all the disciplines, and have a go-to hub for all the pieces Paris 2024.
Cyclingnews will even produce previews and evaluation forward of the important thing occasions, alongside our contenders for gold, route breakdowns, and a medal depend of the biking disciplines.
You may get pleasure from limitless, full entry to all of our journalism and content material by subscribing to Cyclingnews.
Our content material is initially free to view however when you’ve considered 5 articles in a one-month interval you may be prompted to take out a digital subscription – you possibly can learn extra about that right here.
A subscription to Cyclingnews permits you to learn each phrase and see each {photograph} we publish. Your subscription additionally helps assist our journalism, and particularly our presence at races throughout the season, once we convey you the massive tales and inside information that no person else has.
It additionally offers entry to our premium content material which cuts again on promoting to ship in-depth journalism – resembling unique interviews, tech galleries and longer reads – made particularly for our subscribers.
Go to our Olympic Video games hub web page for extra data on the thirty third version of the Video games and please be a part of Cyclingnews for all the most recent information and outcomes from Paris 2024.
