Around the same time, Daumont and Grosu were dropped from the front group, whose lead to the bunch reduced to 16’ as the race entered the last 140km. Namibia’s Tristan de Lange set off in pursuit but was caught after 25km of effort, just as Slovenia’s Jan Tratnik increased the pace in the bunch alongside Van Avermaet. Only seven riders remained at the front after Asadov lost contact on a short downhill section. The gap increased to 18’45’’ with 170km to go. Slovenia and Belgium drove the peloton in these early stages of the race, with the 2016 Olympic Champion Greg Van Avermaet pulling the bunch himself on the first climb of the day. Nicholas Dlamini (RSA), Michael Kukrle (CZE), Juraj Sagan (SVK), Polychronis Tzortzakis (GRE), Eduard-Michael Grosu (ROU), Orluis Alberto Aular Sanabria (VEN), Paul Daumont (BUR) and Elchin Asadov (AZE) brought their lead up to over 10 minutes as they hit the first slopes of the long steady climb of Doushi Road. Eight riders went on the move as soon as the flag dropped and quickly opened a significant gap ahead of the route’s main challenges. The participants had 234 demanding kilometres ahead of them to reach the finish at the Fuji International Speedway. Germany’s Simon Geschke and Czech Republic’s Michael Schlegel did not take the start after returning positive Covid-19 tests. The peloton of 129 riders started at 11am local time from Musashinonomori Park without Australia’s Rohan Dennis, who was focusing on the time trial. Wout van Aert finished second for Belgium as he outsprinted Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar in the chase group. A week after becoming the first Ecuadorian podium finisher of the Tour de France, and a couple of years after winning the Giro d’Italia – an unprecedented feat for an Ecuadorian rider – the climber raised in the Carchi province claimed glory in the men’s road race, the opening cycling event of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.Ĭarapaz smiled, winked and grimaced at the cameras in contagious joy as he brought Ecuador their second gold medal in the history of the Olympic Games.
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