Ferrand-Prevot proves her point
Pauline Ferrand-Prevot has described her victory in the cross-country race at the Mountain Bike World Championships at the weekend as proof that she can be competitive in three separate events at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Ferrand-Prevot is also the current world road race and cyclo-cross champion, and she will seek to defend her road crown in Richmond in just under three weeks, but she said that her triumph in Andorra at the weekend was not a message of intent to her road rivals.
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“No, it’s more a message to those who asked me to choose between mountain biking and the road, not to mention cyclo-cross,” Ferrand-Prevot told L’Équipe. “I was right not to listen to anyone but myself. I knew that it was possible to succeed in three disciplines.”
The Frenchwoman suggested that she will look to combine the road race, time trial and mountain bike events at the Rio 2016 Olympics, and confirmed that she will visit Brazil for a test event in early October.
“I’m not going there on holidays, I’m going there to see the three circuits,” she said. “I’m going to look for accommodation because there’s no question of staying in the Olympic Village, it’s too noisy. I want to get the maximum amount of information so that I can come back next August saying to myself ‘Ah, I know this place'. When you know a place, it’s more reassuring.”
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