Bicycle Mountain Bike Race held online at 21:09 on May 10
While the competition was postponed or canceled due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, athletes with Olympic experience on bicycle mountain bikes called for an online race.
This race has been postponed or canceled due to the influence of the new coronavirus, and in order to have fun for the fans and to motivate the players, they participated in the Olympics for the third consecutive time from the Beijing Games on the mountain bike. Kohei Yamamoto and others were invited to the event.
The race was held online in four classes according to leg strength, using a device for measuring the pedaling force of participants on their home or other bicycle.
Among them, in the class where more than 100 top players from Japan and overseas participated, Yamamoto drove the race in the lead group from the start, but he was overtaken by the Australian player and finished second.
After finishing the race, Yamamoto said, “I felt that the possibility of biking races would expand when I could participate online. I think that I was able to do a good race without being able to practice outside as usual. Looking ahead to the Tokyo Olympic Games, I would like to do every step of what I can do. "