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Dutch pairing Jan-Willem van Schip and Yoeri Havik had been disqualified from the Olympic Madison on Saturday after the previous collided with Briton Ollie Wooden, inflicting the latter to crash.
Van Schip clashed with Wooden with roughly 39 laps to go, shifting up the observe after which dropping down once more to apparently hit Wooden together with his head.
“I’m alright, I really feel like I’ve been rear-ended by a lorry, that’s all,” Wooden advised Eurosport.
“Everybody’s gone so deep. Van Schip particularly, I’ve seen him go actual deep earlier than. He’s clearly not wanting and simply ploughed straight into me.”
What tf was that from Jan-Willem van Schip #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/IDzNrFg7Cf
— Lukáš Ronald Lukács (@lucasaganronald) August 10, 2024
Some advised afterwards that the footage confirmed the collision was deliberate, however Wooden’s feedback didn’t acceptable that degree of blame.
“Say what you need. I didn’t see something,” he identified to journalists.
“I’ve no clue, completely no clue. All I do know is I received hit actually onerous from behind by actually the largest rider on the observe.
“I don’t know what I’ve carried out however my knee actually hurts and my a*** actually hurts. He hit me so onerous. I felt like a crash take a look at dummy I’m alright, I’ll survive. I’ll dwell to struggle one other day.”
Based on Wielerflits, the race jury deemed Van Schip answerable for the crash and disqualified him. He was additionally subjected to a positive of 1,000 Swiss francs.
Portugal’s Iuri Leitao and Rui Oliveira received gold within the occasion, with Oliveira admitting shock.
“First medal within the observe … We’re not even near being one of many favorites for this race, however we rolled our hearts out and with all my brothers and household right here, we pushed to the bounds,” he stated.
“I’ve by no means received a single race in my life. To be Olympic champion as my first win is, effectively, I nonetheless don’t know if that is all actual, actually. That’s insane.”
The Italian duo of Elia Viviani and Simone Consonni had been main however a crash by the latter gave the Portuguese duo the possibility to assault and go on to gold. Viviani and Consonni took silver, whereas Denmark’s Michael Mørkøv and Niklas Larsen secured the bronze.
Wooden remounted after his crash and took tenth with associate Mark Stewart. This was bumped up a spot when Van Schip and Havik had been disqualified from their seventh place end.