Colombian Daniel Martínez will miss this weekend’s opening biking occasion of the Paris Olympic Games, having to overlook the boys’s particular person time trial after working into issues together with his passport, in line with the Colombian information outlet Antena 2.
The particular person time trial will happen this Saturday, July 27.
Martínez, the reigning Colombian time trial champion and total runner-up to Tadej Pogačar on the Giro d’Italia, reportedly bumped into issues together with his passport when making an attempt to depart his house nation for Paris.
According to studies, Martínez needed to current his passport to the Canadian Embassy to acquire a visa to compete on the GP de Québec and GP de Montréal however was unable to retrieve it in time to journey to Paris.
It’s the second time Olympic participation has eluded Martínez, who dropped out of the Tokyo Olympics after contracting COVID-19.
There’s nonetheless hope for the 28-year-old, nonetheless. He is on the crew’s roster for the Olympic males’s street race, which takes place on August 3.
According to the report, Martínez can also be due to participate within the Vuelta a España, which begins on August 17 in Lisbon, in a late call-up by Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe.