2024-07-31 11:02:01
After Cassandre Beaugrand’s gold among the girls, Léo Bergère climbed to the top of the podium in the men’s triathlon. Pierre Le Corre finished at the foot of the podium.
July 31, 2024, a day blessed by the gods for French triathlon. After the gold won by Cassandre Beaugrand among the women, the boys gave a new Olympic medal each with third place Léo Bergère (28 years old). Two medals won in the space of three hours while in the twenty-four years of Olympic history, the French team has not been on the box, except in the mixed relay, three years ago in Tokyo! The best joint action at home in a party city of Paris is more beautiful than ever. And the harvest may not be over. The Blues can achieve a new number in the mixed transfer next Monday.
Cassandre Beaugrand was still responding to countless media questions on the Pont Alexandre III when the fifty-five triathletes in the men’s triathlon threw themselves into the twenty-two Seine at 10:45 a.m. A new attitude that contrasts with the humid heat that kills the the streets of the capital crowded to encourage the three Blues, Dorian Coninx, Léo Bergère and Pierre Le Corre. If the latter leaves the river in the 18th position, his two friends are placed in the lead car from the start, with about ten minutes after the top of the position when they ride their bikes for forty kilometers and seven loops between the most sumptuous. Parisian monuments.
A great Paris
But no one managed to escape in the locked cycle path, which took at a breakneck speed but where the favorites were content to measure themselves, their heads no doubt already turned towards the race. A peloton of about thirty competitors formed in the center of which we saw our trio following each other. Grand and Petit Palais, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Avenue Montaigne, Pont des Invalides, Quai d’Orsay, Boulevard Saint-Germain, Rue du Bac then Quai Anatole-France… kilometers fly by without anyone deciding to escape.
The last, ten kilometers on foot, promises to be explosive with the favorites who have killed some under their feet with the desire to dynamite the teams. And what should happen happened. Hayden Wilde (New Zealand) and Alex Yee (Great Britain) made the game difficult and quit. A lightning strike which left their pursuers behind. Undeterred, the duo went on to show off for the win, leaving the hunters free to fight for the bronze.
A brilliant finish, Léo Bergère even thought he could win the silver when he saw the New Zealander fall
Léo Bergère, Pierre Le Corre came for steel but not Dorian Coninx. The 2023 world champion, short of competition after breaking his elbow and hand in the Yokohama triathlon, left two of his teammates to compete for bronze. A real disappointment for someone aiming for anything less than an Olympic title. Isérois followed from a distance in an impressive final during which Léo Bergère left the company with Pierre Le Corre, without a hitch.
But when he seemed to have won the race in front, Wilde fell a few hundred meters behind, letting the victorious British TGV pass over the wire on the blue carpet of the Alexandre III Bridge. Leo Bergère even thought that he could take the silver when he saw that the New Zealander was collapsing. Alas, the Habs’ sprint was not enough. Bergère was satisfied with a precious bronze, the war medal for France, in front of Pierre Le Corre, at the foot of the podium. Dorian Coninx, in a hard race, failed, in 27th place.
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