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Tom Pidcock defies puncture to claim Olympic mountain-biking gold

  • Team GB rider repeats victory at Tokyo
  • Pidcock comes back after mid-race drama

Tom Pidcock powered to a spectacular comeback to claim back-to-back gold medals in the men’s mountain biking after overcoming a mid-race puncture that looked to have ended his chances. In an epic performance, Pidcock, gold medallist in Tokyo three years ago, closed a 40-second gap to the race leader, Victor Koretzky, on the penultimate lap before accelerating hard on the final moments to drop the Frenchman.

The 24-year-old’s hopes of victory seemed to have been ended by apuncture and a sloppy wheel change on the fourth of seven laps, just as he was moving ahead of the rest of the field, with Koretzky.

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