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USA Biking has introduced the 5 athletes who might be racing the highway race and and time trial on the Paris Olympic Video games subsequent month. Chloé Dygert and Taylor Knibb will tackle each the ladies’s highway race and time trial. On the boys’s facet, Brandon McNulty and Magnus Sheffield will take part in each occasions, whereas Matteo Jorgenson will compete within the highway race.
Dygert (Canyon-Sram) earned her place on the staff after profitable the 2023 UCI Time Trial World Championships. She is available in with Olympic expertise already, having received a silver medal on the observe in 2016 in Group Pursuit, and a bronze medal in the identical occasion within the Tokyo Video games. She might be competing in Group Pursuit once more this summer season.
“It’s actually a blessing,” Dygert mentioned. “I’m actually blessed to be chosen for my third Olympic Video games in USA colours.”
This might be Dygert’s second time competing within the Olympic highway race and time trial. She completed thirty first within the highway race and seventh within the time trial in Tokyo, after getting back from a profession threatening damage lower than a yr earlier than.
Taylor Knibb can also be an skilled Olympian, however in triathlon, not biking. She received a silver medal within the combined relay triathlon occasion in Tokyo. She earned her spot on the 2024 Olympic highway race staff final month by profitable the US time trial nationwide championship race in Charleston, West Virginia, besting among the nation’s high highway racers who compete within the high ranks of biking.
Whereas the time trial is acquainted to Knibb, the highway racing might be extra of a problem, one which she’s absolutely conscious of.
“Biking has a really steep studying curve, and I’m concurrently excited and nervous for what lies forward,” she mentioned.
Along with the highway race and time trial, Knibb may even be competing in triathlon once more, making her a uncommon two-sport athlete.
“I’m very honored, grateful, and excited for the chance to signify Group USA with USA Biking. It will not have been doable with out the assist of my superb household, pals, coaches, supervisor, sponsors, and USA Triathlon.”
McNulty leads sturdy staff of WorldTour Olympic newcomers
Brandon McNulty (UAE Group Emirates) earned his spot on Group USA after profitable the US time trial nationwide championship final month by almost a minute. He’ll compete in each the time trial and highway race.
McNulty had a memorable Olympic debut in Tokyo, lasting to the tip of an attritional highway race and attacking with eventual gold medal winner Richard Carapaz with 25km to go. McNulty couldn’t maintain on after Carapaz surged once more with 6km to go, however got here residence for a powerful sixth place.
“That high end result – sixth within the highway race – simply motivates me all of the extra,” McNulty mentioned. “The race was tremendous aggressive, I relive it on a regular basis. At residence in Arizona and Girona, I’m already coaching with one hundred pc give attention to Paris. My aim? Deliver again a medal!”
The opposite two spots within the males’s highway occasions are taken up by Olympic debutants in Magnus Sheffield and Matteo Jorgenson.
Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers) has been having a robust yr within the time trial, podiuming a number of occasions in particular person time trial levels, together with final month on the Giro d’Italia on stage 7. He has additionally put up some spectacular highway race outcomes, together with sixth on the Tour of Flanders.
“It seems like a dream come true,” mentioned Sheffield. “Going to the Olympics was considered one of my largest objectives rising up. I’m extremely proud to signify the U.S. in Paris in addition to all of the those that have helped me alongside the way in which. I don’t suppose it is going to absolutely sink in till I’m there.”
Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a motorbike) is within the midst of a serious breakthrough season, having received Paris-Good earlier within the season and Dwars door Vlaanderen in the course of the spring classics marketing campaign, displaying he’s a risk in stage races and one-day occasions just like the Olympics alike. Jorgenson might be competing in simply the highway race.
“The Olympics have been at all times part of my childhood,” Jorgenson mentioned. “I keep in mind spending whole summers watching sports activities I had by no means heard of and admiring the athletes. For positive it had an enormous impact on me and was one of many causes I made a decision to pursue a profession as a professional athlete. With the ability to race in Paris, particularly following the very best yr of my profession, is a dream come true.”
