Nick Westby previews Tom Pidcock’s bid for mountain bike gold and reflects on Max Litchfield’s Sunday night heartache in the pool
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00:00Bonjour from Paris 2024. I'm at Ellencourt Hill at the site of an old disused quarry,
00:14which is the venue for the mountain biking cross country that Yorkshire's Tom Pidcock
00:18goes for gold in on Monday afternoon on day three of the Games. He's already complained
00:23about the state of the track as he looks to defend his Olympic title that he won so thrillingly
00:28in Tokyo three years ago. Today's action comes hot on the heels of an epic night at
00:33the La Defence arena in the swimming on Sunday evening, where Max Litchfield of Pontefract
00:38finished an agonising fourth in a third Olympic final on the trot. This won by just 19 one
00:44hundredths of a second. And then an hour and a half later, Adam Peaty, the golden boy of
00:49British swimming, finished second as he was looking to win the Olympic breaststroke 100
00:53metre title for a third straight Games in a row. That was a thrilling night, some emotional
00:59interviews afterwards. Let's see what Ellencourt Hill has for us this afternoon.