Disaster for French mountain biking.
Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt, double reigning world champion, and Loana Lecomte, World Cup leader with four successes in as many races, come back empty-handed from Tokyo.
Ultra-favorites, the French women finished sixth with Lecomte and tenth with Ferrand-Prévôt on Tuesday.
The latter, well started, accompanied the one who will be the new Olympic champion, Jolanda Neff, before falling.
The rest of the race was a real ordeal for "
PFP
".
The Swiss have, them, monopolized the first three places.
Jolanda Neff is therefore ahead of her compatriots Sina Frei and Linda Indergand who finish second and third respectively.
To discover
The full Olympic program
The Olympic medal table