Wammes named to Canadian Olympic team

Bothwell’s Nick Wammes will be representing Canada at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris France in the sport of track cycling.

This will be the second time the 24-year-old Wammes has qualified for the Olympics, as he took part in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Wammes will lend his Olympic experience to teammates Tyler Rorke and James Hedgcock who will make their Olympic debuts in Paris. The trio, who won the gold medal in the men’s team sprint at Santiago 2023, secured their ticket to Paris after winning bronze at the UCI Track Nations Cup in Milton, Ont. this spring.

Team Canada will be one to watch at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome held from Aug. 5 to 11 as one of only three nations to qualify athletes in every track cycling event due to a stellar season on the UCI Track Nations Cup circuit.