2023-08-15 10:00:21
With 42 medals, including 13 gold, France has risen to third place among nations at the 2023 World Cycling Championships.
The “Super Worlds” of cycling ended in Glasgow. In Scotland, has France inherited a cold shower? Not really, given the overall results: 42 medals, 13 titles and a third place in the nations ranking behind Great Britain and Germany. A record that includes many non-Olympic disciplines.
On the Olympic side, the tricolor balance sheet remains more measured. The track is the bad student, with no medal won. A disappointment, while the young generation had flown over the European championships last year. The younger generation has not, for the moment, been able to validate its progress at the world level.
MTB and BMX at the top
On the road, and even if the youngsters shone, the results remain worrying in view of Paris 2024. Among the men, the Blues were very far from the medal, whether online or in the time trial. Among women too, the strong international competition has undermined the French ambitions.
Fortunately, mountain biking and BMX came to “save” the French record at the end of these Worlds. In Cross-country mountain biking, the Olympic format allowed Pauline Ferrand-Prévot to seek a fifth world title, just ahead of Loana Lecomte. A French double carrying hopes for the Olympics.
In BMX Racing, the box is complete: Romain Mahieu in gold, Arthur Pilard in silver and veteran Joris Daudet in bronze. A discipline in which France has never won a medal in the men’s category since the discipline became Olympic in 2008. 2024 might therefore be a game-changer for this discipline… and for French cycling as a whole, which hopes to be the one of motor sports in a year.
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