Riders compete within the males’s observe madison ultimate of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games on the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Nationwide Velodrome (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
Belgium’s Lindsay De Vylder relays Fabio Van Den Bossche (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
Raphael Kokas and Maximilian Schmidbauer of Staff Austria(Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
Italy’s Simone Consonni and Elia Viviani take over in the course of the Mens Madison(Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
Handsling between New Zealand’s Aaron Gate and Campbell Stewart (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
France’s Benjamin Thomas relays France’s Thomas Boudat within the males’s madison(Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
Portugal’s Iuri Leitao and Rui Oliveira prevailed in probably the most chaotic Olympic madisons ever witnessed, making the most of a late crash from Italy’s Simone Consonni to steal a lap inside 20 laps to go and rocket into the gold medal.
Italy had been main over Denmark after taking 5 sprints and 20 factors for a lap within the first half of the 200-lap race, however a botched change left Consonni on the deck and his accomplice Elia Viviani having to proceed racing, ready for Consonni to rejoin.
That left the crew susceptible to the assault from Portugal, who took the factors with 20 laps to go then stored pushing, gaining the lap simply after taking the penultimate dash.
Then, the Portuguese duo poured on the fuel within the ultimate laps, successful the ultimate dash – price double the factors – to disclaim the Italians the win.
Denmark’s Michael Mørkøv and and Niklas Larsen, who took a lap on the midpoint, received the bronze.
Outcomes
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Rank
Nation (Riders)
Factors
1
Portugal (Iuri Leitao / Rui Oliveira)
55
2
Italy (Simone Consonni / Elia Viviani)
47
3
Denmark (Niklas Larsen / Michael Mørkøv)
41
4
New Zealand (Aaron Gate / Campbell Stewart)
33
5
Japan (Shunsuke Imamura / Kuboki Kazushige)
30
6
Germany (Roger Kluge / Theo Reinhardt)
23
7
Netherlands (Yoeri Havik / Jan Willem van Schip)
14
8
Czechia (Denis Rugovac / Jan Vones)
12
9
Spain (Sebastian Mora Vedri / Albert Torres Barcelo)
-4
10
Nice Britain (Oliver Wooden / Mark Stewart)
-9
11
Belgium de (Lindsay Vylder / Fabio van den Bossche)
