He is the leader in French endurance racing and has proven it again this weekend. On Saturday, Benjamin Thomas won the World Cycling Championships in Berlin on Saturday.
With this victory, the Tarnais offered France its first gold medal, in an Olympic discipline in addition. And he also plans to make a double this Sunday, during his race on the American with the young Donavan Grondin.
Doubled as in 2017?
A feat he had already achieved in 2017, when he returned with the two gold medals.
"We have a good chance with Donavan," he said on Saturday after his podium. I used to chain the two in two days, we are both in good condition, we will give the best ”.
On the omnium, a combined discipline chaining four events on the same day, the Tarnais dominated the debates. "A perfect omnium from start to finish," he said. I always believed in it, my legs were good and I didn't make any mistakes ”.
Winner of the scratch, the first event of the day, he took second place in the tempo race and fourth in the elimination race. It was in the final event, the points race, that he knocked out his entry opponents by winning three of the first five sprints. And he managed to take a lap in the peloton, three laps from the finish, in the company of the Dutchman van Schip, which earned him a bonus of 20 points and the definitive insurance of world gold.
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