Who they are and their medal possibilities
Cycling has always been a part of the Summer Olympics, going back to the first modern Olympics in 1896. Mountain biking, born in the United States in the 1970s and being relatively new, made its official Olympic debut in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Team USA athletes have won a grand total of 60 Olympic cycling medals, yet the medal count in mountain biking stands at just two bronze medals. The first of those came at the 1996 in Atlanta and the second in 2013 in London. Both were won by women.
With the Paris Games now open, we are watching Team USA’s Olympic mountain bikers, who have demonstrated to the world that they’re more ready than ever for Summer Olympic success in Paris. We are cheering them on with special interest because these same riders will be here September 27-29 for the inaugural WHOOP UCI Mountain Biking World Series at Mt Van Hoevenberg in Lake Placid.
So who are 2024’s Team USA mountain bike riders and what do we know about them? Click here for the full article on the Mt Van Hoevenberg site.