Sébastien Vigier won the keirin tournament at the Ghent Grand Prix this weekend. A month ago, he finished 2nd in Hyères. In the speed tournament, he lost in the small final to French Champion Rayan Helal. The Olympic selection wanted to get back on the bibs a little over a month before the Olympic Games.I’m here to keep in touch with the competition, to regain speed benchmarks in matches compared to the opponent. Tactically it was good. It was good work“, he indicates to DirectVelo.
Créteil Kronos player is in the final stretch to prepare for the Paris Games.These are my first long efforts because I have been in the middle of a big strength block since the World Cup. The end of the day was a bit hard“The preparation of the team speed relay and his comrades will be closer to the efforts of the competition.”We will be doing a lot of race-type efforts, team speed simulations, 200m sprints“. The final touch will be given at the Roubaix velodrome from July 19 to 29.
The Tokyo bronze medallist, with Florian Grengbo and Rayan Helal, rode in Ghent the bike he used in Japan three years ago, the T20. This was already the case in Hyères in May and in Milton, in April in Canada, in the Nations Cup, while Look has developed the P24 with the FFC for the 2024 Games (read here). “I ride with the old one. I prefer the old bike, he explains. I have some references that I don’t find with the new model despite the potential aero gains. I will ride with the old one in Paris“.
