Paris Olympic organizers may have saved the most sadistic test for last.
Paris 2024 organizers may have saved the most sadistic test for last.is not one for hyperbole. A cleareyed coach and two-time Olympian, he will casually describe his athletes’ 23-mile training runs in a way that makes it sound as if they had gone for brisk walks.
Both races, per tradition, will help bring down the curtain at the Games. The men will gather on the start line at Hôtel de Ville on Saturday. The women will race Sunday, hours before the closing ceremony. But after several weeks in Paris, all will set off knowing that a punishing two-plus-hour torture test awaits.
Ritzenhein coaches Hellen Obiri, a Kenyan who has shown her mettle on hills as the reigning back-to-back champion of the Boston Marathon. But the Paris course is a different beast, and Ritzenhein made sure to familiarize himself with it when he visited the city in July. He tied up his running sneakers and took to the streets so that he could experience the grueling heart of the course, from Mile 9 to Mile 23.
Olympic organizers have been curiously understated in their own assessments, describing the course in promotional materials as one that “will set demanding conditions for the athletes, because the Paris region is not as flat as it may seem.”The first half of the course, which heads west toward Versailles, approximates the route taken by thousands of women, early in the French Revolution, who were seeking liberal reforms and sought to confront King Louis XVI at his palace.
Around Mile 18, the race goes from difficult to extreme. The athletes will be deep enough into their mornings that any sort of undulation could cause problems, and Paris has a doozy: another ascent that maxes out at 13.5%. The Rue de Ville d'Avray, west of Paris, a hilly stretch of the marathon course for the 2024 Summer Olympics, on Aug. 7, 2024.
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