CaliB wrote:
it seems [Luis] was well prepared for this outcome
His disappointment is still very understandable and it has to be hard when you've been so successful and brought so much to your country. Now, given his form and experience, with a few more weeks of training I personally think he'd have an unlikely but better shot at the podium than [Le Corre] but [Le Corre] was the most consistent and ticked all the boxes.
pier87 wrote:
Ajax Bay wrote:
Engner66 wrote:
Seemed like a spur of the moment post but all four knew one of them was going to end up with a heartbreak. The question is now do they even have a single medal contender.
Yes, four of the 6 will surely win medals, and those have a great chance of being coloured gold.
I guess he meant the men in the individual race, and I tend to agree with him. MTR is a shoe in, unless they mess up somehow.
I can completely understand Luis' disappointment. If the Olympics had not been delayed by a year, he would have been an odds on favourite for an individual Olympic gold medal in Tokyo (as well as likely a second gold in the MTR).
I suggest that even with "a few more weeks of training" Luis would still have a zero chance of an individual medal. All the other three have a better chance, as they've showed in '22 and '23. And he would like be a weaker Leg 1 than either Bergere or Le Corre.