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Flu, a brand new bike and a combating likelihood at Olympic Video games for Uganda’s Charles Kagimu



Half an hour after Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) celebrated his historic victory within the Paris Olympic Video games highway race, Charles Kagimu lit up the world on the Trocadéro in Paris, rolling in because the final finisher of the 273km race. The gang have been genuinely appreciative of the 25-year-old’s scrappy trip within the day’s early breakaway and his battle to jot down his identify into historical past as the primary Ugandan Olympic bicycle owner in 40 years.

Kagimu is not any stranger to epic racing, having accomplished a brutal version of the Unbound Gravel 200 final 12 months with Staff Amani, however the Olympics have been one other degree of depth with streets packed 10-deep with screaming followers. The ambiance impressed Kagimu to battle by means of the most important setback of falling severely unwell after the opening ceremony.

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