After Saturday's individual time trials, the cycling events at the Paris Olympic Games continue with the Mountain Bike racing. With the women’s event taking place on Sunday July 28 and the men’s event on Monday July 29, here’s how to watch Olympics Mountain Bike 2024.
There is only one mountain bike discipline included at the Olympic Games, and that’s Cross-Country, or XCO. Rather than the hair-raising descending of Downhill, Cross-Country is a mass-start format that sees the riders tackle climbs as well as descents on rough, technical terrain, making it an all-round test of power, endurance, and bike handling. In Paris, the racing will take place on a 4.4km circuit at Elancourt Hill, with the exact number of laps to be decided the afternoon before each race but both races to last in excess of one hour.
