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Paris 2024 – Track Cycling: Summary of Benjamin Thomas’s Last Race
Unlucky fourth in Tokyo, the Frenchman won Olympic gold in Paris on Thursday in track cycling.
Even a fall didn’t get the better of him! At the start of the fourth and final event of the omnium, Frenchman Benjamin Thomas won Olympic gold for the first time in his career on Thursday, August 8, at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines national velodrome. Victim of a fall 25 laps from the finish, the Tarnais didn’t panic, first joining the leading group, before winning ahead of the Portuguese Iuri Leitao, and Belgian Fabio Van den Bossche.
At 28, the Frenchman won his second Olympic medal, after the American’s bronze in Tokyo. Fourth in the omnium in 2021, Benjamin Thomas is the new king of the discipline, offering his 14th gold medal to the French delegation at the same time.