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Netherlands wins Olympic gold in cycling with another world record

Paris, Aug 6 (Prensa Latina) The Netherlands men's cycling team won the gold medal on Tuesday at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with its second world record today.

Unbeatable the Dutch trio formed by Roy Van den Berg, Harrie Lavreysen and Jeffrey Hoogland, winners in the summer event of Tokyo 2020 and the World Championships in Glasgow 2023, who achieved the feat with a time of 40.949 seconds, minutes after breaking the mark in the semifinals.

The British completed the course with a time of 41.814 seconds to obtain the silver medal, and the bronze medal went to the Australian team after defeating France in the duel for the last place on the podium.

On Monday, in the women’s category, Great Britain won the gold medal by setting a world record and New Zealand and Germany shared the silver and bronze, respectively.

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