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The Guardian - UK
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Jeremy Whittle in Paris

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

Tom Pidcock practices on the Paris 2024 course
Tom Pidcock is the defending Olympic champion in the men’s cross-country race. Photograph: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com/Shutterstock

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”.

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