This is one of the great choices of medals in Spanish sport on the first day of Paris 2024 Paralympic Games and it will be until the end. Ricardo Ten qualified this Thursday morning for the battle for bronze in the individual pursuit of track cycling, in class C1 (athletes with physical disabilities or cerebral palsy, on adapted bicycles), and will fight in the afternoon to achieve the first podium for the national delegation in the French event.
In a test with seven cyclists after several Spanish rivals were not present, a great opportunity opened up for the Valencian to try to increase his medal haul at the Games, where he is a great legend after shining in past in swimming and perfectly adapted to recent times in track cycling. Ten does not let him escape and fights for medals.
It will be a card, as the Ten will compete in the race for bronze against the German Pierre Senska. The sensations he left in the morning session were very positive because of the attempt to get the medal in the afternoon. “We know that here no one is giving away. The Chinese came out quickly. Let’s see if this afternoon we can improve a little and make the German suffer. It’s time to rest, relax your legs and eat a little. Let’s see if luck is with us this afternoon,” declared the Spanish cyclist after his performance.
Ten was third in qualifying with a time of 3:43.765. With this he was easily overcome Senska, fourth with 3:45.973more than two seconds away. However, in the afternoon we will start from the beginning and, therefore, the sensations presented in the morning have to be transferred: a full bronze medal is at stake for try to extend a brilliant record that stands out with three golds, one silver and four bronzes at the Games.
Seven of those eight podiums were achieved in swimming, before Ten decided to jump to cycling in the Tokyo 2021 cycle He then won bronze in the team speed in the velodrome, which he will try to increase. Of course, the route is their big bet for these Games.
The Spaniard never had a chance to fight for the gold. The two Chinese cyclists dominated the preliminary stage with an iron fist to take the medals and even the fight for victory. Zhangyu Li will fly with a world record of 3:31.388 and he aims for face to face not to be like, because he has left all his rivals at a sidereal distance. Despite this, his countrymen will challenge him Weicong Liang, second with 3:42.468 after defeating Ten in the match for second place.
Source: La Verdad
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