Tom Pidcock defends his Olympic crown after Ros Canter, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen win Team GB's first gold medal at Paris 2024
Tom Pidcock defends his Olympic crown after Ros Canter, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen win Team GB's first gold medal at Paris 2024star roared back from a 36-second deficit to France’s Victor Koretzky and overtook in the final few corners to win.
“Normally I do a long ride to recover the day after a mountain bike race – but I might sack that off now,” he said.Pidcock’s gold was the second of an edge-of-your-seat day in Paris. In the end, the Cheltenham native, who also won bronze in the individual event, only knocked down one fence to confirm a winning score of 91.30, 12.30 ahead of silver.Tom Pidcock punctured his tyre. He slipped to ninth. He's somehow won a gold medal for Team GB 🙌 Beast.It’s the fifth Olympic medal of Daley’s career and comes just a year after he returned to the sport from semi-retirement.
Burgess, who was fourth at the last Games, went to the top of the leaderboard of the C1 final and had to wait anxiously for the three remaining athletes to go, before eventually finishing second.Richards was pipped to the post by Romania’s David Popovici, while just 0.15s separated the top four.“I can’t be too disappointed. My first individual at an Olympic Games.”
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