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The men’s cycling road race at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris is an attritional affair.
Eventual champion Remco Evenepoel of Belgium completed the 272-kilometer race in just under six hours and 20 minutes. Riders are constantly eating and drinking throughout the race in order to stay fueled. So, as you can imagine, sometimes nature calls.
That’s what happened to German rider Nils Politt at the mid-way point of the race at the legendary Paris restaurant
Café des 2 Moulins in order to take a pee break before being mobbed by several adoring fans.
Pause pipi au célèbre Café des 2 Moulins pour Nils Politt #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/ybTxqwJqqB
— Arthur Tirat (@ArthurTirat) August 3, 2024
Olympic Cyclist Nils Politt Stopped At Famous Movie Cafe Mid-Gold Medal Race
Cafe des 2 Moulin rose to fame thanks to its appearance in the 2001 movie Amélie, in which it is the workplace of the title character. It’s now one of Paris’s top tourist destinations.
Politt, a 30-year-old who won a stage of the Tour de France in 2021, spent much of the race on the attack before eventually finishing in 70th position, nearly 20 minutes behind Evenepoel.
Evenepoel, meanwhile, fresh off a third-place finish in the Tour de France, became the first male rider in history to win both the Olympic time trial and the road race.
“What a place to win this. Honestly, I feel sick. So proud to win this and to be the first ever to double it, history, no ?,” the 24-year-old said after the race.