Briton Alex Yee won the 2024 Olympics triathlon test event in Paris on Friday on a course identical to that proposed on July 31 next year, with the Seine on the menu in the water and the Champs-Élysées on the land. Behind the silver medalist of the Tokyo Olympics, who crushed this race in Olympic format (1,500 meters of swimming, 40 km on bike and 10 km on foot), the Portuguese Vasco Vilaça then the Frenchman Dorian Coninx took both other places on the podium after a sprint, ahead of two other Blues, Pierre Le Corre (4th) and Léo Bergère (5th), signing a group shot.
Reigning world champion, Léo Bergère has probably said goodbye to a second crown in favor of Alex Yee. The Briton has scored valuable points in the World Triathlon Championships Series (WTCS) standings and, unless there is a major failure, should be crowned in the final on September 23 in Pontevedra, Spain, where the points will be multiplied. Bergère was able to measure the gap separating him from Alex Yee, who took off on the first lap of the race on Friday and confirms British supremacy in the discipline after the victory of his compatriot Beth Potter, the day before, in the women’s race where the other big house name Georgia Taylor-Brown was missing.
