Paris 2024 : Olympic rings – Strava Art From Matt Christie

Original: Matt on strava.com

Insta: @Mattchristiephoto

If you have 15, or so, hours to spare why not celebrate the 2024 Olympics in style…cycling style? Matt Christie did just that, producing a nice piece of Strava art that’s somewhat more accessible than the 2,000km ride that Koudlansky and Bremond (further below) completed earlier this year in April.

Matt burned through 2500 calories and averaged just under 10mph over a course with several tricky sections and many turns. The weather on the day was in the 20’s Celsius, not great when you have to cover 134.65km!

We Brits are celebrating a decent haul of medals so far, notably, readers of this site will be aware of Alex Yee pulling an impressive triathlon victory from the jaws of apparent defeat only a few minutes before the finish.

Here is the image produced by Koudlansky and Bremond which appears slightly more circular only because of the huge distances covered in its making.