#Elisa Paris

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italy win the silver medal, their first olympic team medal since 1928 (!)

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the moment they knew they won bronze 🥹, paris olympics 2024 bronze medal match, 9/8/24

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Élisa De Almeida training

Posted: 07/09/23

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Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift 2024 📸 by Luc Claessen/Getty Images

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Wow, what a stat

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Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift 2024 🥇 Lotte Kopecky (Team SD Worx - Protime) 🥈 Elisa Balsamo (Lidl - Trek) 🥉 Pfeiffer Georgi (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL)

Paris-Roubaix 2024 🥇 Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin - Deceuninck) 🥈 Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin - Deceuninck) 🥉 Mads Pedersen (Lidl - Trek)

Photos by Luc Claessen & Dario Belingheri/Getty Images

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Believe it or not, the Olympic individual time trial race is this weekend! The course is a very urban course through Paris, a very different course than many ITT races. It will be scenic and beautiful, but also very technical. Early reports of teams that have reconned the course say it is very slick from road traffic, so it may favor riders with well-honed bike handling skills.

Here are a few of the top contenders:

Chloe Dygert, the defending Olympic champion in her trademark pink socks or shoes, will be competing, as well as American triathlete phenom Taylor Knibb. We haven't heard much from Dygert lately as she prepared on her own, but we know she's fast. We also know that Knibb is very powerful, though this technical course probably doesn't suit her.

Australian Grace Brown, in her final professional season, will be really targeting this race, and she has looked really good this season. She's a veteran and will be wanting to take home gold in her final year of racing, and she's another top pick.

Another rider looking very good right now, who actually beat Brown by one second in the opening ITT of the Giro d'Italia Women, is Italy's own Elisa Longo Borghini. She will hope to carry her peak form into this weekend.

We don't know what to expect from Anna Henderson, who has broken her collarbone twice this year (ouch!) but is a regular ITT contender for Great Britain and could top the podium on a good day.

Speaking of injury, we would probably rule out Ellen van Dijk after her broken ankle in the first stage of the Vuelta Feminina six weeks ago, if she wasn't Ellen van Dijk. She has been out of racing but still targeting the Olympics, and she has to be considered a top contender.

Another serious Dutch contender is Demi Vollering, who sat out the Giro in favor of the Olympics and the upcoming Tour de France Femmes. She looked in fine form during the spring stage races, and is a regular threat in the ITT.

Finally, some names that won't be competing: Swiss time-trial powerhouse Marlen Reusser will miss the Olympics this year due to lingering issues from a viral infection last month. And Slovenian road race and time trial champ Urška Žigart was curiously not selected for the Slovenian Olympic team, which certainly raised some eyebrows.

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80s mashup • volume II

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never underestimate the power of friendship and where it can get you 🫡🥉

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Elisa Nijman and Alyda Grace by Anthony Seklaoui for M Le magazine du Monde October 2022 styled by Malina Joseph Gilchrist

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Paris Saint-Germain. Away kit for the 2023-24 season.

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new album Volume II (16.12.22)