Olympics-Cycling-Britain's Pidcock storms to cross-country gold

[ASFN Admin]

IZU, Japan (Reuters) -Britain's Tom Pidcock became the youngest ever Olympic mountain bike champion as he left his rivals in a cloud of dust as he stormed to the gold medal on the Izu course on Monday. The relentless 21-year-old seized control after four laps of the 4.1km Izu circuit and he was never challenged, riding away to victory by 20 seconds ahead of Swiss Mathias Flueckiger.

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