Paris 2024 Olympics, Remco Evenepoel warns Filippo Ganna
Paris 2024 Olympics, Remco Evenepoel warns Filippo Ganna
Tomorrow Paris 2024 also awards the first medals in cycling, with the two women and then men’s road time trials. Italy is confident in Elisa Longo Borghini, already a two-time Olympic bronze medalist but in the road race, and Filippo Ganna, who in the French capital, on a course more suited to his characteristics, wants to redeem the disappointment of Tokyo 2020.
But making life difficult for Ganna è is likely to be, in addition to Britain’s Josh Tarling, the reigning world champion of this specialty, Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel, physically the opposite of Ganna with his 1.71 in height by 61 kilograms in weight but considered when he rides his bike "the projectile man" for his perfect aerodynamic ability, the result of an adapted body shape, hard work and a past as a soccer player (è he was captain of the Belgian youth national team) that helps him maintain his position for a long time.
Evenepoel has tried the Olympic time trial course three times and now he says "I’ve already beaten everyone, why shouldn’t I do it again this time? I have proven that I can beat anyone and I am not worried. My head è at its best after the third place in the Tour,” says the Belgian, “and although I am still quite tired I can do it. I had to fight until the last meter in the Tour, and on Monday I spent most of the day in bed, on Tuesday I tried to pedal a little bit, but I didn't feel good, and it wasn't much different on Wednesday and Thursday. Fortunately, I still have time until tomorrow afternoon to recover".
But which opponents do you fear most? "In the list of favorites I would like to add Stefan Kueng,” he replies. “He made the Tour, but he è withdrew before the Alps and this was clearly planned. While I at that time still had to fight for third place. That definitely makes a big difference, but at the same time it does not mean that everyone finishes the race ahead of me". Finally some thoughts on the course: " not è very technical and on the contrary, there are many straights and fast corners answers -, but it canò suit me. Maybe it could have been a little bit longer, but my weapon è aerodynamics and here it will come in handy. Then this route, although beautiful is not è entirely without danger. The road surface è very bad in the first and last five kilometers. For such an event I thought they would have paved it, but it è" not so.
