2023-08-18 10:39:00
The triathletes were the first athletes to swim in the Seine, during the test event, in anticipation of the Olympic Games in Paris.
By VD with AFP The French shone at home during the triathlon test event of the next Olympics. (Illustration photo) © LP/Olivier Lejeune / MAXPPP / PHOTOPQR/LE PARISIEN/MAXPPP Published on 08/18/2023 at 10:39 a.m.
Briton Alex Yee won the 2024 Olympics triathlon test event in Paris on Friday on a course identical to that proposed on July 31 next year, with the Seine on the menu in the water and the Champs-Élysées on the land. Behind the silver medalist of the Tokyo Olympics, who crushed this race in Olympic format (1,500 meters of swimming, 40 km on the bike and 10 km on foot), the Portuguese Vasco Vilaça then the Frenchman Dorian Coninx took the two other places on the podium after a sprint, ahead of two other Blues, Pierre Le Corre (4th) and Léo Bergère (5th), signing a group shot.
Reigning world champion, Léo Bergère has probably said goodbye to a second crown in favor of Alex Yee. The Briton has scored valuable points in the World Triathlon Championships Series (WTCS) standings and, barring a monumental failure, should be crowned in the final on September 23 in Pontevedra, Spain, where the points will be multiplied. Bergère was able to measure the gap separating him from Alex Yee, who took off on the first lap of the race on Friday and confirms British supremacy in the discipline after the victory of his compatriot Beth Potter, the day before, in the women’s race where the other big house name Georgia Taylor-Brown was missing.
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