Road paved with gold – With no fewer than eleven medals won in para cycling on Wednesday in Clichy-sous-Bois during the time trials, the French team has become a true world reference in the space of eight years.
From our special correspondent at Médailles Land,
The Olympic Village is not just for eating, sleeping and exchanging bodily fluids, it also allows the different French teams to size each other up, compare their feelings and share their joys and sorrows. And incidentally, to place bets. That’s what the para swimmers and para cyclists do. Gluttons among gluttons, the athletes in these two star disciplines of the French delegation are competing to see who will finish at the top of the medal table. “Yeah, we’re having a little squabble between us,” laughed Dorian Foulon in the mixed zone after winning bronze in the time trial (category C5).
And in this long-distance match, the bikers probably wrapped up the game this Wednesday, near Clichy-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), where races followed one another at a frantic pace throughout the day. With a harvest of eleven medals, the French para-cycling road team sent a big high kick in the face of Paralympic Games history.
To give you a good idea of the feat, remember that in Tokyo, three years ago, the backpackers brought back eleven medals… a(…) - 20minutes
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