The world’s greatest street cyclists will lastly converge this weekend on the males’s and girls’s Paris Olympic Video games street races, following an unaccustomed three-year wait for the reason that final Video games in Tokyo.
Among the many huge favourites are two riders from Belgium – Remco Evenepoel and Wout van Aert, who’ve each already gained medals within the time trial, Evenepoel placing gold, Van Aert bronze.
Evenepoel’s win in that occasion was all of the extra spectacular as a result of coming only a week after he completed third within the Tour de France.
The boys who beat him in that race, Tadej Pogačar of Slovenia and Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark, is not going to be in Paris although, having chosen to sit down this one out. Pogačar’s absence specifically has raised eyebrows, with the non-selection of his girlfriend Urška Zigart apparently enjoying a task in his resolution to not attend.
The British assault encompasses a sturdy four-man group together with Tom Pidcock – who has already gained mountain bike gold at Paris – and Josh Tarling, whose heartbreakingly unfortunate puncture within the time trial value him a medal. They are going to be accompanied by super-climber Stevie Williams and powerful all-rounder Fred Wright.
Nice Britain is one in all solely 5 groups who’ve certified the utmost 4 riders for the occasion – the others being Belgium, France, Slovenia and Denmark.
The USA’s three-man group options Tour de France star Matteo Jorgensen, accompanied by Magnus Sheffield and Brandon McNulty.
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This race shouldn’t be all about the identical previous huge names from the identical previous main biking nations although, and there shall be 89 members from a complete of 52 international locations from everywhere in the world.
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Paris Olympic Video games 2024 males’s street race begin record
Belgium EVENEPOEL Remco VAN AERT Wout STUYVEN Jasper BENOOT Tiesj
Nice Britain TARLING Joshua WRIGHT Fred WILLIAMS Stephen PIDCOCK Thomas
United States MCNULTY Brandon JORGENSON Matteo SHEFFIELD Magnus
Slovenia TRATNIK Jan MEZGEC Luka MOHORIČ Matej NOVAK Domen
France VAUQUELIN Kévin MADOUAS Valentin LAPORTE Christophe ALAPHILIPPE Julian
Spain ARANBURU Alex AYUSO Juan LAZKANO Oier
Netherlands HOOLE Daan VAN BAARLE Dylan VAN DER POEL Mathieu
Italy BETTIOL Alberto MOZZATO Luca VIVIANI Elia
Australia CLARKE Simon O’CONNOR Ben MATTHEWS Michael
Switzerland KÜNG Stefan HIRSCHI Marc
Portugal COSTA Rui OLIVEIRA Nelson
Colombia BUITRAGO Santiago MARTÍNEZ Daniel Felipe
Norway WÆRENSKJOLD Søren FOSS Tobias
Germany POLITT Nils SCHACHMANN Maximilian
Austria HALLER Marco GROßSCHARTNER Felix
Eire HEALY Ben MULLEN Ryan
Canada WOODS Michael GEE Derek
Kazakhstan LUTSENKO Alexey FEDOROV Yevgeniy
New Zealand PITHIE Laurence STRONG Corbin
Eritrea GIRMAY Biniam
Particular person Impartial Athletes SYRITSA Gleb
Ecuador NARVÁEZ Jhonatan
Poland ANIOŁKOWSKI Stanisław
Hungary VALTER Attila
Latvia SKUJIŅŠ Toms
Morocco ED DOGHMY Achraf
Czech Republic VACEK Mathias
Mongolia SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts
Japan ARASHIRO Yukiya
Algeria HAMZA Yacine
Slovakia KUBIŠ Lukáš
Uzbekistan BOCHAROV Dmitriy
Luxembourg KIRSCH Alex
Venezuela AULAR Orluis
Israel EINHORN Itamar
Estonia MIHKELS Madis
Turkey ABAY Burak
Panama ARCHIBOLD Franklin
Thailand CHAIYASOMBAT Thanakhan
Argentina SEPÚLVEDA Eduardo
Ukraine BUDYAK Anatoliy
China LYU Xianjing
Iran LABIB SHOTORBAN Ali
Hong Kong LAU Wan Yau Vincent
Rwanda MANIZABAYO Eric
South Korea KIM Euro
Denmark BJERG Mikkel SKJELMOSE Mattias PEDERSEN Mads MØRKØV Michael
