Italy grab men’s team pursuit gold with world record

Italy won the Olympic track cycling men’s team pursuit gold with another world record on Wednesday, edging out Denmark in a thrilling race. The team of Simone Consonni, Filippo Ganna, Francesco Lamon and Jonathan Milan, who already broke the world record on Tuesday on the quick Izu track, bettered it with 3 minutes 42.032 seconds over 4 kilometres. Italy led early before the world champion Danes took over and it was close at the bell, the Scandinavians ultimately denied despite going 3:42.198, faster than the mark set by the Italians in the heats the day before. It was a first gold for Italy i…

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