Julien Absalon
Julien Arnaud Absalon (born 16 August 1980) is a French former cross-country mountain biker, who competed as a professional from 2001 to 2018.Source:[1] 2003: Absalon won his first UCI Mountain Bike World Cup.2004: Gold at World Champions and the Athens Olympic Games.After changing tyre and noticing that he was trailing the leader by 55 seconds, he decided to abandon the race, seeing that his chances of winning a medal had disappeared.His season was cut short when, that November, he suffered a broken collarbone during a cyclocross race.