This is the selective route of the road cycling event of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games

Although during the dispute of the Tour de France it seems that any other activity in the world of road cycling stops, yesterday was the day chosen to announce the route that those who aspire to conquer the Olympic gold in the Paris 2024 Olympics will have to face.

Unveiled the route of the road race of Paris 2024

There is still a little over a year left for the cycling events at the 2024 Paris Olympics, however, the event organization has decided to take advantage of the fact that the eyes of cycling fans are these days in France with the dispute of the Tour to reveal the route on which the best cyclists in the world will try to succeed the current Olympic champion Richard Carapaz.

273 kilometers starting and finishing at the Trocadero Gardens at the foot of the most emblematic monument of the French capital, the Eiffel Tower. Ahead, a winding route around Paris, with passages through places like the Palace of Versailles or the Vallée de Chevreuse where cyclists will have to climb no less than 13 climbs to total 2,800 m of elevation gain. A demanding figure although not as wild as the route disputed in the previous Olympics in Tokyo if we compare distance and elevation.

The route of the men's race, which will take place on August 3 of next year with the participation of only 90 cyclists, includes a first large loop of 225 kilometers around Paris before returning to the city where the peloton will face a first pass under the finish line to do two laps of a 18.4-kilometer circuit. An urban route that includes three climbs to the Montmartre hill and its winding streets, the last of them just 10 kilometers from the conclusion.

On the other hand, the time trial will have a completely flat route of 32.4 km starting and finishing at the Esplanade of Les Invalides in the heart of Paris. A route that combines in perfect balance long straights where time trialists can exploit their power and good aerodynamics with some technical areas where they can shave seconds off the clock by taking the best lines and that will go through the east of the city with passages through places like the Place de la Bastille or the Vincennes forest and will take place on July 27.