IZU, Japan (Reuters) – Denmark’s Lasse Norman Hansen and Michael Morkov combined brilliantly to triumph in a fierce scrap for Olympic gold in the newly-restored men’s madison at the Izu Velodrome on Saturday. They both reached the quarter-finals of the keirin and will go for gold on Sunday in an event with deep roots in Japan. In contrast to Britain’s romp to victory in the first-ever women’s Olympic madison on Friday, the 200-lap men’s race was an absorbing 50-minute battle waged at almost 60kph. Hansen is the first Danish rider to win multiple gold medals in Olympic track cycling, having won the omnium in 2012. “It was a great achievement to win gold in London but I was very young, I didn’t understand it fully at the time.

Source: MetroXpress August 07, 2021 09:22 UTC