Mountain Bike Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 Road to Paris 2024

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[heywoodu 13,813]

No Mathieu van der Poel in Paris, he has decided for the road race  

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 mini team was announced even before end of qualification period and it is:

 

Women's - Paula Gorycka

Men's - Krzysztof Łukasik 

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 stacked team has been announced. 
 

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7ckniSs1pN/?igsh=MWk4czV4czAyOHJuYg==

 

Women

Alessandra Keller

Jolanda Neff

 

Men

Mathias Flückiger

Nino Schurter

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 Team announced:

 

Men

 

David Valero (9th in Rio and Bronze in Tokyo)

Jofre Cullell (15th in Tokyo)

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Men's

Ulan Bastos Galinski

 

Women's

Raiza Goulão Henrique

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 team (2 athletes)

 

Men

Gunnar Holmgren

 

Women

Isabella Holmgren

 

As far as medals are concerned, Gunnar might have a chance in men’s mountain biking, although he’s probably on the outside looking in. Career best 8th at the recent Novo Mestre World Cup, and 5th at the Olympic test event. Isabella, who is the reigning junior World Champion, dominated in her U23 debut in Novo Mestre, winning by over 2 minutes. Won’t trouble for a medal, but it really shows what she’s capable of. 

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SELECTION TEAM FRANCE OLYMPIC GAMES 2024

[heywoodu 13,813]

 picked Puck Pieterse, obviously, and.....Anne Terpstra  

 

Nothing against her at all, personally I even find it cool because long ago she started in the team of @brunamoura's employer, but I find it hard to understand how Anne Tauber is not selected...

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1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

 picked Puck Pieterse, obviously, and.....Anne Terpstra  

 

Nothing against her at all, personally I even find it cool because long ago she started in the team of @brunamoura's employer, but I find it hard to understand how Anne Tauber is not selected...

I am not surprised about this at all, I feel like Anne has been consistently better than Anne.

 

 

In all seriousness, Terpstra has consistenly proven herself and unless I missed it in the last few world cups, she has nearly always finished before Tauber. It's a shame for Tauber who is sort of stuck between never passing the older generation and already being passed by the new generation, but I wasn't surprised at all personally.