Team GB’s Pidcock hits out at ‘bland’ Paris 2024 mountain biking course

• Olympic champion: organisers ‘could have done better’
• Women’s race takes place on Sunday – day before men’s

Tom Pidcock has branded the Paris 2024 Olympic mountain biking course “bland” and said that the organisers “could have done a better job of making a more ‘mountain bike’ course”.

Pidcock, a Team GB gold medallist three years ago in Tokyo and winner of the UCI world cross-country title in Glasgow last year, described the cross-country course in suburban Élancourt, west of Paris, as “not the best course in the world, but it’s the same for everyone”.