A good omen as the Paris 2024 Olympics approach. Mathilde Gros, star of the French track, was full of confidence almost three months before the big Olympic event by winning the individual speed event in the third and final round of the Nations Cup on Saturday evening in Milton, Canada.
Third in Adelaide, second in Hong Kong, the Frenchwoman finished in style this last major international event before the Games, where she dreams of winning gold at the National Vélodrome of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
In Canada, the 2022 world champion managed to overcome the failure of the team sprint, where France missed the Olympic qualification on Friday evening, to win in the final against the New Zealander Ellesse Andrews, world champion in title of the keirin. Something to reassure yourself despite the absence in Milton of the British Emma Finucane and the Germans Lea-Sophie Friedrich and Emma Hinze.
In endurance, the French Valentine Fortin and Marion Borras took second place in the American race behind the British Katie Archibald and Neah Evans, while Benjamin Thomas finished third in the omnium won by the British Ethan Hayter.
