With forty laps to go in the points race Thomas had gone into the overall lead but the top three were separated by just four points.

Pidcock took an aggressive line on the inside and the two almost tangled but Pidcock would stay on his bike and win an incredible gold. 

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The course has been designed by the same man who designed the courses for the last two Olympics and it should challenge riders in all ways.

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Kenny lost his first race in the semi but rebounded to qualify where he’d come up against teammate Callum Skinner.

He edged Rohan Dennis’ time up the mountain and although he lost 25 seconds before the second check he would fly around the rest

The second race between the Dutch riders saw swings and Lavreysen managed to edge Hoogland on the line to send it to a third race.

The group saw numerous attacks launched including McNulty with Richard Carapaz (Ecuador) and Jakob Fulsang (Denmark) on his own.

Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands) was the favourite but a massive crash early left him a long way behind.