OlympicsRissveds won the gold just a week after needing 10 stitches in her knee and elbow following a training fall. Photo: TTAFP · 21 Aug 2016, 09:38Published: 21 Aug 2016 09:38 GMT+02:00Battle-scarred Jenny Rissveds won the Olympic Games women's mountain bike gold medal on Saturday, just a week after needing 10 stitches in her knee and elbow following a training fall. The win was a first gold medal for Sweden in any Olympic cycling event since Bernt Johansson who won the men's road race in 1976 in Montreal. In an indication of the bruising nature of the sport, Wloszczowska missed the London Games with a leg fracture. Story continues below…"Before London I was one of the favourites for the gold medal, but I broke my leg three weeks before the Games, so I had to focus for another four years," said the Pole.

Source: The Local August 21, 2016 07:41 UTC