- Hinze in the Keirin final - Friedrich out
Former World Champion Emma Hinze is in the final of the Olympic track cycling Keirin event. The 26-year-old just scraped into the final with a third-place finish in her semifinal heat, decided by a photo finish at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome. Meanwhile, two-time world champion Lea Sophie Friedrich failed to qualify for the final. The top six riders will compete in the final starting at 19:11.
Hinze won gold in the Keirin at the 2020 World Championships in Berlin. She, along with Friedrich and Pauline Grabosch, started the Paris Games by winning bronze in the team sprint.
In the men's Omnium, Tim Torn Teutenberg has improved to fifth place after a strong performance in the tempo race. The elimination race and the final points race are still to come.
Emma Hinze, having secured gold in the Keirin at the 2020 World Championships in Berlin, now represents France in the final of the same event at the Olympic Games in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Despite Friedrich's two-time world championship title, she missed the final cut, leaving Hinze as France's sole representative in the final.
