The countdown is underway for next year’s Olympic games in Paris, and next week marks one year until athletes head to France. The capital city is pulling out all the stops for these games, including an iconic cycling circuit that NEWSnet International correspondent Ryan Thompson had to try out.
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With a year to go until the Olympics come here to Paris the countdown to the games is now on over the past few weeks organizers have been unveiling how they’re going to showcase the French Capital as the world’s most beautiful sport venue when the games come in 2024 that includes volleyball under the
Eiffel Tower swimming in the sen River and a difficult cycling circuit here in the hills of Mount France is no stranger to picturesque bikee riding this of course is the country that puts the tour def France on every year whose finisher is crowned under the Arctic Triumph though
Is here in the heart of Paris cyclists will have to climb roughly 10 miles of incredibly narrow streets made of cobblestone and it gets harder on top of that the incline is something to be fought with about a 6.5% grade going up to see if my Olympic chops could be
Ready in time for 2024 I decided to check out a bike and give it a shot myself so clearly I’m not the best cyclist in the world but the real challenge here will be moving ahead and getting ahead during the circuit stages these are already incredibly narrow streets it’s hard to imagine several
Dozen cyclists all piling in here trying to get ahead of each other to the top to get to the highest point in Paris this time I’m using an electric bike but Olympians won’t be so lucky when you finally reach the top you’ll see the fame sakur basilica
But also Charming streets that make this neighborhood a tourist favorite many tourists though have opted to get there via the finic and aren’t sure they’d try biking up we took a lot of stairs and not so much the incline but yes we had to stop on several points I don’t know
That I could do it myself how much would someone have to pay you right now to actually convince you to to get up to the top on a bicycle um the cost of this trip maybe yeah I do it for the cost of the trip as well yeah and despite the
Billion doll price tag the City of Lights is betting big that next year’s Olympics are worth every penny in Paris France I’m Ryan Thompson for Newsnet