Mountain biking returns to the Olympic Games for an eighth consecutive time, with the cross-country medals decided at the Élancourt Hill venue outside Paris for elite women on Saturday, July 28, a day before the men.
A forecast of rain could change the complexity of the course for the women like it did three years ago at the Tokyo Games, which left most of the favourites well behind a Swiss podium sweep led by Jolanda Neff.
Paris Olympics women’s mountain bike favourites
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Loana Lecomte (France)
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