Juliette Labous, Audrey Cordon-Ragot and Victoire Berteau will represent France during the road cycling events at the Paris Olympic Games, said coach Paul Brousse. Labous and Cordon-Ragot will be competing for the time trial on July 27 as well as the online event on August 4 in which Berteau will also compete. The selections of Labous, 25 years old, and Cordon-Ragot, 34 years old, were in little doubt and the two leaders of the Bleues have already spotted the completely flat chrono route over 32.4 kilometers starting from the Esplanade des Invalids. It remained to award the third place also coveted by riders like Cédrine Kerbaol, best young rider of the last Tour de France, Evita Muzic, fifth in the 2024 Vuelta, or Clara Copponi, track specialist. It was ultimately Victoire Berteau, 23, who had the last word. Reigning French road champion, the Cofidis team rider is also likely to be selected for the track events from August 5 (selection announced on June 28). The road race will pass, like that of the men the day before, through the Chevreuse valley before a circuit in Paris including the Montmartre hill.
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