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The cycling competitions of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris occurred at four different venues (Pont d'Iéna for road and time trial races; Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines for track cycling and BMX racing; Élancourt Hill for mountain biking; and Place de la Concorde for the BMX freestyle), from 27 July to 11 August, featuring twenty ...
Mountain bike racing entered the Olympic programme at the Atlanta Olympics, followed by BMX racing in 2008 and freestyle BMX in 2020. Before the 2020 Summer Olympics, all events were speed races, but the 2020 programme featured BMX freestyle for the first time. Women's road events were introduced to the Olympic programme at the 1984 Summer ...
The 2024 Summer Olympics are here. Here's what you need to know on key dates, schedules, TV information and more for the Summer Games in Paris:
The cycling program for this edition was expanded with 4 more events than those held in 2016. BMX freestyle was added in the program for the first time and there will also be a return of Madison events on the track that had been removed from the Olympic program in 2012. The award of the extra events was widely seen as a reward for the agreement ...
This article details the qualifying phase for cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics. A total of 514 cyclists, with an equal distribution between men and women, competed in twenty-two medal events across five disciplines (road, track, mountain biking, BMX racing, and BMX freestyle) at these Games.
The entire event is contested within a single day, but there are breaks between each race. The winner of the omnium is the cyclist who obtains the most points through the four races. The winner of each of the first three races earns 40 points, the second-place cyclist earns 38, the third-place rider 36, and so forth, and the final race has ...
The women's road time trial event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 27 July 2024 on a course starting at 14:30 at Pont d'Iéna in Paris. [1] Grace Brown, who started the second last, won the race. Anna Henderson won silver, and Chloé Dygert bronze, despite having fallen.
This was the 4th appearance of the event, which has been held at every Summer Olympics since BMX racing was added to the programme in 2008. The reigning Olympic champion was Connor Fields of the United States, and the reigning (2019) World Champion was Twan van Gendt of the Netherlands. Fields suffered a horrific crash in his semi-final heat ...