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    Polymer cord spokes and ‘hairless’ tyres – the tricks Tom Pidcock’s mechanic used to help him win Olympic Gold

    • August 6, 2024

    Tom Pidcock’s fight back from a puncture and last lap inside line move to take the Gold medal was surely one of the highlights of…

    Pidock’s last lap overtake was just ‘part of racing’ says Olympic Mountain Bike XCO silver medallist, Viktor Koretzky

    • July 30, 2024

    Tom Pidcock’s incredible defence of his Olympic Mountain Bike XCO title was not without controversy, with the Elancourt Hill crowd loudly booing the British rider…

    “Rubbing’s racing” says Tom Pidcock about controversial move in Olympic Mountain Bike XCO race that clinched Gold

    • July 29, 2024

    Boos greeted Tom Pidcock as he crossed the line in front of a partisan French crowd to claim the gold medal in the Mountain Bike…

    Tom Pidcock wins Gold medal in dramatic Paris 2024 Olympic mountain bike XCO race, and gets booed by the crowd

    • July 29, 2024

    Tom Pidcock has won gold in the Olympic mountain bike XC, in one of the best comebacks of all time. Pidcock took the lead on…

    Tom Pidcock suffers front puncture in Olympic mountain bike XCO race while in the lead

    • July 29, 2024

    Drama struck for the defending champion and Olympic favourite, Tom Pidcock, on lap four of the men’s Olympic XCO race at Élancourt Hill near Paris,…

    Haley Batten fined but keeps silver medal after protest from Dutch squad after Olympic XCO race

    • July 29, 2024

    After a strong race resulting in a silver medal, team USA rider Haley Batten was hit with a fine for 500 Swiss Francs (CHF) after…

    Loana Lecomte suffers ‘head trauma’ and jaw injury after shocking crash in Paris 2024 Olympic Mountain Bike XCO race – UPDATE

    • July 28, 2024

    Reports from French sports website, L’Equipe, indicate that Loana Lecomte suffered a ‘head trauma and minor jaw injury’ after a nasty crash in the rock…

    Pauline Ferrand-Prévot wins emotional fairytale Olympic XCO Gold at Paris 2024 in dominant display… on a Pinarello hardtail

    • July 28, 2024

    Pauline Ferrand-Prévot of France has won the Olympic cross-country (XCO) gold medal at the Paris Olympics 2024. The Frenchwoman put on a dominant display after…

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    “Just gravel”: Tom Pidcock slams the Olympic course as “not really mountain bike”

    • July 26, 2024

    Tom Pidcock and Evie Richards have likened the Olympic mountain bike course to a “gravel” circuit, according to a news report in Cycling Weekly. Speaking…

    Haley Batten

    Paris Olympics 2024: Who’s going to win mountain biking gold?

    • July 26, 2024

    We’ve got a week to go before the best cross-country mountain bike riders in the world all meet at Elancourt Hill on the outskirts of…

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    What mountain bikes are the top XC racers riding at the Paris Olympics?

    • July 25, 2024

    The Paris Olympics XCO mountain bike races are fast approaching, and we thought it was a good time to have a look at what bikes…

    I love watching downhill mountain biking, but I’d hate to see it at the Olympics

    • July 25, 2024

    Why not downhill? It’s a question I ask myself every four years in the run up to the Olympics – why is XC racing alone…

    Evie Richards smiling at the start line for an XCO World Cup

    Olympic hopeful Evie Richards: “I went on a ride and I couldn’t cross the road, I just started crying”

    • July 25, 2024

    This Sunday Evie Richards will compete for a gold medal at the Olympics, a prize she tells me has been in her dreams her entire…

    Pauline Ferrand Prevot

    What to expect from the Paris Olympic’s XCO course: rocks, drops and fast racing

    • July 24, 2024

    On 28 and 29 July 2024, the best cross-country mountain bike riders in the world will descend (pardon the pun) upon the outskirts of Paris…

    Tom Pidcock out of the Tour de France with Covid…can he still retain mountain biking XCO gold at the Olympics?

    • July 15, 2024

    British cross-country (XCO) Olympics hopeful, and reigning Olympic Champion, Tom Pidcock has had to pull out of the Tour de France just two weeks before…

    Top Pidcock crosses the line to win Gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, holding a Union Jack above his head and with tears in his eyes

    How to watch the Paris Olympics mountain bike cross country racing for free

    • July 8, 2024

    The Paris Olympics is less than three weeks away, with the mountain bike cross country racing taking place on the 28 and 29 of July.…

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