Remarkable experience for local Olympian
The road racing at the Paris Olympic Games may not have brought riches in terms of top-10 placings for Kiwi riders, but it did bring some remarkable scenes in remarkable settings, Cycling New Zealand says.
The 272km men’s course and the 150km women’s course both started and finished at the Eiffel tower and riders passed iconic locations and neighbourhoods in Paris during the race.
Luggate resident Kim Cadzow was among the road cyclists representing New Zealand in Paris and she finished in 56th place.
Kim said on social media it was “not the best day out for me but that’s road racing sometimes”.
The rising cycling star was selected to compete at the Olympics just a few years after she first took up the sport.
She credited her former coach, Wānaka-based Patrick Harvey, with showing her the way into the professional world of road cycling.
Kim is now a full-time professional cyclist employed with EF Education-Cannondale and she spends most of the year training and competing around Europe.
All the Kiwi road cycling athletes missed out on podium finishes.
More New Zealanders cyclists will compete in the track cycling from 5am today (Tuesday August 5), including former Wānaka resident Ellesse Andrews.
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