After a spectacular Giro d’Italia and an even better Tour de France (both won by Tadej Pogacar, becoming the first cyclist since Marco Pantani in 1998 to complete the double), expectations for a Vuelta a España, where Sepp Kuss will defend the 2023 title, are low. The line-up of participants, according to the news that has been filtering in, does not point to be the most exciting. The Vuelta has long been considered the craziest
29 July, 2024
What is pavé and how many sections will the cyclists at the Paris Games ride on this surface?
Part of the magic of the Olympic Games is that each edition includes new sports and disciplines that attract the attention of millions of people. Still, another reason why this event is so important and popular is that it brings together the best athletes of the most historic sports in the world. This is for example the case of cycling, which can boast of being one of the few sports practiced since the first edition
France’s Pauline Ferrand-Prévot completed her immense list of achievements with the gold medal in the women’s Mountain Bike event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in a race controlled from start to finish by the Ineos Grenadiers star. The final podium was completed by the American Haley Batten, second, and the Swedish Jenny Rissveds, third. The best South American rider of the competition was Raiza Goulao Henrique from Brazil, who finished 28th. An impressive victory
28 July, 2024
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot se lleva el oro en el MTB (f), seguida por la estadounidense Haley Batten
La francesa Pauline Ferrand-Prévot completó su inmensa lista de logros con la medalla de oro en la prueba femenina de Mountain Bike de los Juegos Olímpicos de París 2024, en una carrera controlada de principio a fin por la estrella del Ineos Grenadiers. El podio final lo completaron la estadounidense Haley Batten, segunda, y la sueca Jenny Rissveds, tercera. La mejor suramericana de la competencia fue la ciclista de Brasil, Raiza Goulao Henrique, que concluyó
British all-rounder Thomas Pidcock staged an epic comeback to take the gold medal Monday in the men’s Cross Country event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The INEOS Grenadiers rider, who had a mechanical mishap on the third lap, made a spectacular comeback to beat France’s Victor Koretzky and South Africa’s Alan Hatherly, who completed the final podium with the silver and bronze medals. Pidcock, who withdrew from the Tour de France after testing positive
Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel was crowned Olympic champion on Saturday after a spectacular performance in the men’s individual time trial at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which took place on a rainy afternoon through the streets of the French capital on a 32.4-kilometer course. Evenepoel celebrated his first Olympic title in the individual time trial and brought the gold medal to Belgium, beating Italian Filippo Ganna, silver medalist, by 15 seconds and his compatriot Wout van
In the event that opened the cycling calendar at the Paris Olympic Games, the women’s individual time trial, Australia’s Grace Brown gave her rivals no Grace Brown gave her rivals no chance and from the very first meter, despite the wet asphalt that caused wet asphalt that caused numerous crashes, swept the records in each of the two intermediate points. In the first part of the race it seemed that the fight was going to
One day after the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, cycling will open the competitions with the individual time trials for both genders, always attractive and eye-catching for the thousands of fans of this sport. The following days will be followed by the XCO, BMX and road races, while the star events of the Olympic program, which will be held on the wood of the Saint Quentin velodrome in Yvelines, will be held
The Colombian national time trial champion, Daniel Felipe Martinez, will not be in the time trial of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which will be run next Saturday, July 27 in the French capital. Martinez, born in Cundinamarca, but based in Antioquia for some years (on Tuesday he was walking through the Viva Envigado shopping center with his family), had a problem with his passport to leave the country. For that reason, the Red Bull-Bora
23 July, 2024
Tadej Pogacar is not going to the Olympic Games!
Duplantis, Kipchoge, LeBron, Nadal, Alcaraz, Biles … These are some of the names that illuminate the extensive catalog of stars that have the Paris Olympics, but a few days before the start of the Games, it is confirmed that the constellation will be somewhat smaller. This very afternoon, July 23, it became official: Tadej Pogacar will not attend the Games. The Slovenian, as advanced by the Slovenian agency STA, will not travel to Paris to
