A weekend ride through Paris. Prizes for the first three finishers.

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A weekend ride through Paris. Prizes for the first three finishers.

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They rode out of Paris in the morning, glided past plowed fields and under tall trees and then returned to the capital in the afternoon. That was where the Olympics’ road cycling races were always going to be decided: after the riders ascended the cobblestoned streets of Monnmartre, after they held their nerve on the way back down, after a last dash to the finish in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.

The two races had been the rarest of treats in these Olympics: free to all. And so buoyed by sunny skies and the chance to see elite cycling in a year when the Tour de France was forced to detour around Paris, citizens and visitors alike turned out for a glimpse.

Remco Evenepoel of Belgium was fastest in the men’s race, adding a second gold to the one he won in the time trial a week ago, and to his third-place finish in the Tour de France a week before that. Evenepoel may be tired of cycling. He is not tired of winning. “I achieved everything I wanted to achieve this month,” he said.

The ********* Kristen Faulkner won gold in the shorter women’s race on Sunday, pulling away from three rivals with a late sprint that left them regretting their decision not to go with her, and Faulkner wondering just what she’d done. “I’m still looking at that finish line sign wondering how my name got there,” she said.

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