Team medalists the day before, Sébastien Vigier and Rayan Helal disappointed on Saturday in individual speed by being ejected in the round of 16 at the Track Cycling World Championships in Glasgow. European speed champion in 2017 and 2022, Vigier was surprised by the Japanese Kaiya Ota, while Helal, former world junior champion, was dominated by the Australian Thomas Cornish.
The two Frenchmen especially paid for their bad times in qualifying completed respectively with 20th (Helal) and 23rd (Vigier) in time.
It’s a disappointment for the two men who had shone the day before by winning bronze, with Florian Grengbo, in the team speed tournament behind the Netherlands and Australia. They now have the keirin, another Olympic discipline, to leave Glasgow on a good note, one year from the 2024 Olympics in Paris.