Marc HIrschi will probably be dashing straight from general victory on the Czech Tour with UAE Group Emirates to affix the Swiss staff in Paris, with the rider a late call-up for the Olympic Video games highway race after the choice was made to withdraw Stefan Bissegger.
Bissegger, who got here sixth on the 32.4km particular person time trial on Saturday, was on account of race alongside Stefan Küng on the 273km August 3 occasion however has been grappling with again ache.
“Because the finish of the Tour de France per week in the past, the 25-year-old from Thurgau has been affected by muscle ache in his again, which is a results of the excessive stage of exertion,” mentioned a launch on Swiss Biking. “Bissegger was in a position to overcome this ache within the Olympic time trial on Saturday. Nevertheless, he’s unable to resist an extended interval of exertion.”
Hirschi, who was named as a reserve when the Swiss staff was introduced on the finish of June, will shift into Bissegger’s place. Swiss Biking mentioned the Late Athlete Substitute Course of had been initiated for Hirschi, and the 25-year-old would type a duo with Küng that “will probably be trying to find medals on Saturday”.
Each riders will probably be lining up initially line within the shadow of the Eiffel Tower to tackle their second Olympic Video games highway race, with Küng, who completed eighth in Saturday’s time trial, and Hirschi each having raced collectively in Tokyo. Then HIrschi, had gained each a Tour de France stage and La Flèche Wallonne within the previous season however had a quieter 2021 outcomes lead in and he ended up being the nation’s prime finisher within the climb-heavy Olympic highway race, coming twenty fifth.
This time Hirschi is coming into the occasion on the again of a strong run of outcomes by way of the season, having gained Faun Drôme Basic in February, come second at Amstel Gold Race in April and on Sunday he walked away from the four-stage Czech Tour with the general win, a stage win and two stage runner up spots.
The final Swiss rider to clinch a medal within the males’s Olympic highway race was Fabian Cancellara, who claimed silver in Beijing in 2008. Cancellara additionally claimed gold twice within the time trial, in 2008 and 2016, whereas Küng fell wanting a time trial medal in Tokyo, ending fourth and simply four-tenths of a second off the rostrum.
Marlen Reusser, nevertheless, delivered for the Swiss staff in Tokyo, claiming silver within the time trial however she too needed to pull out of the Olympic staff for Paris due to a lingering sickness. So did the nation’s 2021 Olympic champion within the cross-country mountain bike, Jolanda Neff, resigning her spot forward of the Video games on account of respiratory points.
Nonetheless, within the subsequent biking occasion set to unfold, the nation will probably be hoping the medals will begin to stream, with Nino Schurter and Mathias Flückiger main the cost within the males’s cross-country mountain bike race on Monday, July 29.
