Benjamin Thomas blocks away the pressure of rapidly approaching Olympic Games: "I feel calm, that's the key. Why complicate life when you can do simple things?"

Benjamin Thomas is known as a formidable opponent on the road, but even more fearsome on track, where the 28-year-old Frenchman had become a World Champion in madison alongside Donovan Grondin, while being one of the top riders in Omnium and Points Race too. Thomas will thus prioritize track with view to 2024 Olympics, he tells Cyclism'Actu.

"The season will begin little by little with this first training camp then the first races which will quickly arrive," Thomas begins, anxiously awaiting the Paris Olympic Games, the event of a lifetime. "It’s the culmination of a long journey. We can’t wait to be there! Things are falling into place, the final preparations, so far everything is going well."

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So will Thomas abandon road for the time being? "On the contrary, I hope that I will be seen on the road, especially at the start of the season. Even if the Games remain the event of the season for me, I do not forget the road races before, where I would also like to shine and win for Cofidis. The idea is to do at least forty days of racing before the Olympics. But it is certain that from July onwards, I will disappear from the radar a little to really start the preparation final."

"It will be different from the World Championships. The World Championships are of course still an important competition, but there was less pressure, it was really a bonus," Thomas draws the comparison between the two events. "I feel calm, that's the key. Why complicate life when you can do simple things? If the Paris Olympics had arrived four years earlier, I would have been much more destabilized and stressed."

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