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Anna Henderson, Grace Brown & Chloe Dygert Filippo Ganna, Remco Evenepoel & Wout van Aert ‹ Paris 2024 Olympics - Women's & Men's ITT › 📸 by Jan Woitas/Getty Images

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Believe it or not, the Olympic individual time trial race is this weekend! The course is a very urban course through Paris, a very different course than many ITT races. It will be scenic and beautiful, but also very technical. Early reports of teams that have reconned the course say it is very slick from road traffic, so it may favor riders with well-honed bike handling skills.

Here are a few of the top contenders:

Chloe Dygert, the defending Olympic champion in her trademark pink socks or shoes, will be competing, as well as American triathlete phenom Taylor Knibb. We haven't heard much from Dygert lately as she prepared on her own, but we know she's fast. We also know that Knibb is very powerful, though this technical course probably doesn't suit her.

Australian Grace Brown, in her final professional season, will be really targeting this race, and she has looked really good this season. She's a veteran and will be wanting to take home gold in her final year of racing, and she's another top pick.

Another rider looking very good right now, who actually beat Brown by one second in the opening ITT of the Giro d'Italia Women, is Italy's own Elisa Longo Borghini. She will hope to carry her peak form into this weekend.

We don't know what to expect from Anna Henderson, who has broken her collarbone twice this year (ouch!) but is a regular ITT contender for Great Britain and could top the podium on a good day.

Speaking of injury, we would probably rule out Ellen van Dijk after her broken ankle in the first stage of the Vuelta Feminina six weeks ago, if she wasn't Ellen van Dijk. She has been out of racing but still targeting the Olympics, and she has to be considered a top contender.

Another serious Dutch contender is Demi Vollering, who sat out the Giro in favor of the Olympics and the upcoming Tour de France Femmes. She looked in fine form during the spring stage races, and is a regular threat in the ITT.

Finally, some names that won't be competing: Swiss time-trial powerhouse Marlen Reusser will miss the Olympics this year due to lingering issues from a viral infection last month. And Slovenian road race and time trial champ Urška Žigart was curiously not selected for the Slovenian Olympic team, which certainly raised some eyebrows.

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Anna Henderson (read below ❤️)

Fanfic Oc: Landslide

Anna Elaine Henderson

Dustin Henderson’s older sister

The “hot older sister” stereotype

Portrayed by Ana de Armas

Yes, serves as a supporting side character and Billy Hargrove’s love interest

VIRGIN (soon taken by yours truly ;))

Fanfiction: Landslide (Wattpad + Ao3, my pen name is astrovela on there)

The EPITOME of self-respect (which kinda makes the fic a slow burn but not that she’s not physically attracted to Hargrove to start) - even tho she’s known for only giving head so it’s lowkey contradicting bc it just makes her seem full of herself hehe

Can’t take big dick but I suck on it - basically Anna

Rebels because their dad fucking left and their mother’s way too sweet for her own good (who she loves to DEATH god claudia is so sweet and precious)

Who do you think Dustin gets his attitude from LMAO

teaches Max the principle of a girl having her dignity (who will soon canonically teach it to El bc I live to see older sister figures and the little ones passing on their teachings idc idc) —because if Anna can deal with the biggest asshole to smudge the earth (billy) then who CANT they deal with!?

Music taste: Cyndi Lauper, Bonnie Raitt, and eventually Scorpions and Whitney Houston with a touch of Fleetwood Mac (hence the title sksksk)

Doesn’t have her own car lmao

Serves as bitchzilla at home but the Hendersons will kill anyone for each other they’ll tag team your ass - bro don’t come for Dustin’s condition bc she’ll go apeshit lmaooooooo

Her horny ass can’t stand to look in Billy’s eyes for too long because trust me. That man will soak any virgin in sin with just his eyes, and get this: he stares. Fucker knows exactly what he’s doing. 🌞

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Cycling Road: Women’s ITT - Paris 2024 Olympics 🥇 Grace Brown (Australia)   🥈 Anna Henderson (Great Britain) 🥉 Chloe Dygert (USA)

Photos by Paul Hanna/UPI

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So far, the Tour of Britain Women has been the Lotte Kopecky show! Taking both the first two stages, Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) shows us why she's the reigning world champion. She had to work for it, however—Stage 1 was won on a bike throw ahead of Letizia Paternoster (Liv-AlUla-Jayco), who thought she had won for a moment, but it turned out Kopecky had timed her throw perfectly.

Stage 2 was more decisive, as she and Anna Henderson (Team Great Britain) went to the line in a two-up sprint, and despite Henderson's cagey refusal to lead it out, Kopecky accelerated and easily out-sprinted Henderson, who has been quite competitive in this race so far and moves into second.

All stages of this race are being streamed live on YouTube, by the way, with nice highlights released the next day. Kudos to the organizers for doing that. The sights of the course through Wales have been great.

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Yesterday's women's ITT was one of the first events held after the Opening Ceremonies, and it was a thoroughly uncomfortable day on the bike. The course through Paris wasn't overly technical, but many sections had cobbles or pavers that were quite slick in the pouring rain. And rain it did pour, all morning. Many of the riders, even experienced veterans, hit the deck as they navigated turns or roundabouts. Cecilie Uttrup-Ludwig was an early victim of the slick as was Lotte Kopecky. Both Americans, Chloe Dygert and Taylor Knibb, went down.

Many of the riders who didn't fall were taking turns very cautiously, and so the times really varied. Elisa Longo Borghini said she slowed down into the turns after she heard even Kopecky had fallen. Ellen van Dyke, who was a possible contender, had a very slow day, reportedly due to her health and nervousness around the slippery course.

The best of the best, who put down smooth power and managed to stay upright, was Grace Brown of Australia. She had the best time by a very solid 1:31 margin, and we have to admit that we're pretty happy to see her win Gold in her final season.

We're nearly as impressed with the ride by Anna Henderson, who won Silver. Like we said in our preview, Henderson has had a broken collarbone twice this season, which is terribly luck and very painful, but the Brit stayed in top shape. This was a great performance from her.

Rounding out the podium was Chloe Dygert, just 1 seconds down on Anna Henderson, who had fallen at least once on the course but remounted fast enough to hold on for Bronze. There a bunch of gifs of her falling, but we're most impressed that she kept putting in the power enough to make it to the podium.

Some other impressive performances included Frenchwoman Juliette Labous (4th), Dutchwoman Demi Vollering (5th), and the young New Zealander Kim Cadzow (7th).

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Marianne Vos makes it look easy as she avoided some late crashes and stayed out of the wind until opening her sprint and winning Stage 3 of La Vuelta Feminina 2024 by two bike lengths. Obviously her team worked hard for her (despite Anna Henderson not starting after yesterday's crash) but Vos' placement in the bunch was impeccable. The GOAT, indeed.

Charlotte Kool (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) took second after eating a lot of wind in the run-in, and Olivia Baril (Movistar) took third. It was nice to see Movistar able to contest the sprint, despite Emma Norsgaard having to abandon earlier in the day from injuries suffered in yesterday's stage.

Blanca Vas hangs on to her red jersey by just one second.

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2023 UEC Road Cycling European Championships ‹ Women Elite - ITT ›  🥇 - Marlen Reusser (Switzerland) 🥈 - Anna Henderson (Great Britain) 🥉 - Christina Schweinberger (Austria)

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