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Tom Pidcock (GBR) is the favorite to win the Men's Mountain Biking gold at this year's Paris Summer Olympics.
Pidcock competes in the cyclo-cross, mountain bike and road bicycle racing disciplines of the sport for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.
Since going professional in 2021, Pidcock has cross-country mountain bike titles at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2023 World Championships, the 2022 Cyclo-cross World Championships and the prestigious spring road classics, Strade Bianche in 2023 and the Amstel Gold Race in 2024. His best Monument finish was 2nd in the Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2023.
Pidcock reflected on his gold medal win at the Tokyo Summer Olympics.
"The Olympics just transcends any sport. You compete and represent your country; everyone in your country is behind you, no matter what sports they like. It's just national pride, it's unbelievable."
Cycling has been a part of every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics.
Pidcock comes in at -160 odds at BetOnline.
Odds to Win Gold - Men's Mountain Biking - Cycling
Tom Pidcock (GBR)
-160
Victor Koretsky (FRA)
+340
Mathias Fluckiger (SUI)
+750
Nino Schurter (SUI)
+900
Sam Gaze (NZL)
+1100
Jordan Sarrou (FRA)
+1500
Alan Hatherly (RSA)
+2400
Luca Braidot (ITA)
+5000
Riley Amos (USA)
+5500
Filippo Colombo (SUI)
+6000
Luca Schwarzbauer (GER)
+8000
Pierre de Froidmont (BEL)
+8000
Diego Arias Cuervo (COL)
+8000
Jens Schuermans (BEL)
+10000
Christopher Blevins (USA)
+10000
Lars Forster (SUI)
+10000
Julian Schelb (GER)
+16000
Gunnar Holmgren (CAN)
+19000
Charlie Aldridge (GBR)
+23000
