What first struck you about the queue for the media entrance at San-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome on Sunday morning was the length of it.
Just nine sports took place on the 16th and final day of Paris 2024 and a good number of people with the right passes had clearly decided a day at the cycling was for them.
Ironically, or perhaps to be precise perversely, it is the only Olympic venue which doesn’t sell fans. Conversation switches from where are you going next, to what time are you leaving? It’s been a long fortnight of 16-hour days and everyone is looking forward to the end. It has to end. After an iffy start, with train sabotages and an opening ceremony which took place in a deluge, it feels these Games have been a triumph.
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