Cycling world: Grégory Baugé becomes the master – The Point

Gregory Bauge again became master of speed in cycling Track World Championships on Sunday afternoon at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, three years after his last success in the showpiece competition. Bauge, 30, has brought France its fourth title, his third in the Olympic disciplines. At 18 months of Rio, the Blues have managed an encouraging faultless in the sprint events that puts them completely in the saddle for the purpose Olympics. Personally, Baugé has signed a comeback in the World Tournament sprint he had not played since his third title in 2012. After the London Olympics, a bitter disappointment for him (2 Silver) he had observed a year to return gradually the pace.

“Greg will certainly be world champion just now,” predicted Francois Pervis after his quarter-final defeat against his teammate. World champion 2014, already titled in two events (keirin km) to Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, had nevertheless made thwart his successor record in the first round before falling sharply in the next two. “He has the eye of the Tiger”, added Pervis, grinning, adding hope for the success of the other star of the French track, his rival usual. In fact, Baugé quickly folded the semi-final which he won both races against the champions of France, Quentin Lafargue, clearly improved and now for the first time in the “final four”.

Gold for Shiner and Kneisky

In the final against Russian Denis Dmitriev, who had resorted to “nice” to get rid of the previous game of the Dutch Quick Jeffrey Hoogland Baugé clearly dominated the first round. He outdid himself up to his rival in the second set and precede it with a wheel.

Dmitriev, who kept his former coach for advice, the French Wearing Benedict (former head of the pole Hyères), remained in the same place on the podium in 2013. But his presence has brought luster to the success of Baugé in this tournament was cut short for the 2013 world champion, Germany’s Stefan Boetticher, the fastest in qualifying (released in 8th finals), and more to the Olympic champion, Briton Jason Kenny, out through the back door in the 16th round.

This fifth gold medal, under the eyes of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, who came to encourage Baugé during its concentration between the two legs of the final, allowed the French to match their score Cali (Colombia), which had brought him Pervis only three titles.

The French report was enriched moments earlier by the pair of the race for the US. Bryan Coquard, impressive in repetition sprints and Morgan Kneisky already titled in 2013, wowed the National Velodrome to win brilliantly ahead of Italy and Belgium.

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines The French cycling has regained prosecution team, symbolized by the neo-pro Julien Morice, bronze medal individually. His group of sprinters, especially, was handed chain line, according to the cyclist phrase into force, after two years of turmoil masked by the outstanding success of Pervis in Cali.

“The arrival of Laurent Gane (appointed manager of the sprint in October) changed everything, “repeated Michael d’Almeida, the paver speed trio, who applauded the performance of his workout buddy enthusiasm in the sprint tournament “Greg is a champion, great!”