Richard Carapaz takes cycling gold for Ecuador | Financial Times

Good News from Ecuador
Good News from Ecuador

Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz won the Olympic men’s cycling road race on Saturday,

conquering a brutal mountainous course in sweltering conditions to claim the South American nation’s second ever gold medal at the Games.

The race featured many of the world’s best riders, including Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar, who could claim only bronze just a week after winning the Tour de France, the most prestigious race in professional cycling.

No one has ever claimed the Olympic title and the Tour’s general classification in the same year and many of the 126 riders who came to Tokyo to face temperatures that hit 32C and 70 per cent humidity arrived just days after finishing the race in France, a three-week test of endurance like no other

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Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz won the Olympic men’s cycling


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