Mountain Bike Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

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[Robertino 163]

TEAM ITALY  

Luca Braidot
Simone Avondetto
Chiara Teocchi
Martina Berta

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On 6/4/2024 at 10:54 PM, Josh said:

 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. 

Off topic but they must be Swedish-related somehow? Gunnar Holmgren sounds definately like a 60-70 year Swedish man

[Dragon 2,062]

 Tom Pidcock positive for Covid

[De_Gambassi 1,367]

17 minutes ago, Dragon said:

 Tom Pidcock positive for Covid

Is there any particular rule regarding covid this year ?

[heywoodu 16,434]

22 minutes ago, Dragon said:

 Tom Pidcock positive for Covid

And therefore out of the Tour de France (not necessarily because of being positive, but because of not being 100% fit). Shouldn't be too much of a problem for the Olympics though.

[RussB 189]

56 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

And therefore out of the Tour de France (not necessarily because of being positive, but because of not being 100% fit). Shouldn't be too much of a problem for the Olympics though.

Might be a blessing in disguise that he doesn't have to go through the severe fatigue of a TdF

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6 minutes ago, RussB said:

Might be a blessing in disguise that he doesn't have to go through the severe fatigue of a TdF

Less promising is what a team doctor of another team just said on Belgian TV, where they were doing a bit of interviews on the COVID situation: "Yesterday Pidcock came up to me to say hi, and he was looking awful. Didn't need a test to see what was going to happen there..."

[AsensioWillemsen 176]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

And therefore out of the Tour de France (not necessarily because of being positive, but because of not being 100% fit). Shouldn't be too much of a problem for the Olympics though.

Only 2.5 weeks. He’s not out because he has covid but because of fitness, so that could be troubling nonetheless. Hope he can recover in time.

Edited July 13, 2024 by AsensioWillemsen

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3 hours ago, De_Gambassi said:

Is there any particular rule regarding covid this year ?

There isn’t in cycling, so we can assume other sports are similar

 

Plenty are sick and have had to pull out, but others have said to have tested positive and continued