Kristin Armstrong of the United States has won the Olympic time trial for the third time in succession, equalling the record for gold medals won in women's road cycling.
The last rider out on the course, the American - who celebrates her 43rd birthday tomorrow - snatched victory on a rain-drenched and windswept morning in Rio by 5.55 seconds from Russia's Olga Zabelinskaya, bronze medallist in the road race and time trial at London four years ago.
Armstrong equals Leontien van Moorsel's record of three Olympic victories on the road. The Dutch rider won the road race and time trial at Sydney in 2000 and the time trial in Athens four years later.
Zabelinskaya had only been cleared to ride following a Court of Arbitration of Sport ruling last week which held that the exclusion from Rio of riders who had served a doping ban was invalid, and would have proved a controversial winner.
She rode strongly on the latter part of the course to post a time of 44:31.97 and seemed poised to take the gold medal until Armstrong, who had lagged her at the second time check, came back with a storming finish to enter the record books.
Anna ven der Breghen of the Netherlands, winner of the road race on Sunday, was third, finishing in a time of 44:37.80.
Her compatriot Ellen van Dijk finished fourth, 22 seconds down on Armstrong, and would surely have challenged for the medals had she not drifted off road and into the vegetation lining it on the first climb, destroying her momentum.
Team GB's Emma Pooley, a controversial inclusion in the squad after deciding earlier this year to come out of her retirement from cycling to target the time trial at Rio, was off the pace from the beginning and finished 14th of the 25 starters, 2 minutes and 5 seconds behind the winner.
That sounds good! But......
The problem with Mikey is that there is a real need for people like him doing what he does as otherwise drivers continue to endanger others with...
For those who only bike-fly once or twice a year, rental is a great option. There's a guy in Marlow on Thames (for example) that I've used. He's...
My comment was not directed at David Millar - it was a response to Trooper74's transphobic "joke" about Pippa York.
Common sense at last
And tandems...
Car crashes into wall behind Natwest in Winchester https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/24216676.photos-car-crashes-wa...
Standard driver responses - what a grim world view to go through life with, full of resentment and bitterness. ...
One way to find out is to put a member of the driver's family on the bike and ask them to repeat the manoeuvre.
This was in my local park and dogs are allowed off-lead. Cyclists are required to ride slowly and give due care and attention as it happens.