Paris Olympic Games welcomes record number of African riders in women’s cycling

When the competitors line up at the start of the women’s elite road race at the Paris Olympic Games on August 4, it will be 40 years since the first-ever event took place in  Los Angeles in 1984. 

History will be made at these Games, too, because for the first time, there will be equal numbers of male and female competitors – 90 riders in each road race.