GB cycling has lost its golden veneer after slipping off top spot for the first time in two decades despite the superb efforts of Emma Finucane
was not to be. Nevertheless world sprint champion Emma Finucane took her personal medal tally to three, adding sprint bronze toand keirin bronze. Not since Mary Rand 60 years ago in Tokyo has a female British athlete claimed a hat-trick of medals at one games.
One way or another Carlin has been in the thick of it in Paris, with the Dutch coaches accusing him of playing rugby on wheels when he barged past Jeffrey Hoogland to claim bronze in the sprint. Here, he was a victim of circumstance, a racing incident as they say in F1, coming down in a clatter of wheels with the Malaysian and Japanese sprinters, who were also all-in for bronze.
“It feels amazing,” she said. “I know I had the expectation on me coming into these Games but honestly, a gold and two bronzes is more than I could have expected. It’s been such a rollercoaster. I wish I had a book on how to get through an Olympic week. For the first time in two decades Great Britain did not finish top of the cycling medal table. The golden veneer guaranteed by the likes of Sir Chris Hoy and the Kennys, Jason and Laura has gone. The women’s team sprint success was the only track gold and the team slipped to fifth overall. They were hugely disadvantaged by the loss of Katie Archibald, who broke her leg in a freak fall in the garden on the eve of the games. Tom Pidcock’s cross country gold softened the blow to a degree.
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