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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, transferring up the monitor 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 informed Eurosport.
“Everybody’s gone so deep. Van Schip particularly, I’ve seen him go actual deep earlier than. He’s clearly not trying 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 instructed afterwards that the footage confirmed the collision was deliberate, however Wooden’s feedback didn’t applicable that stage 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 bought hit actually exhausting from behind by actually the most important rider on the monitor.
“I don’t know what I’ve executed however my knee actually hurts and my a*** actually hurts. He hit me so exhausting. I felt like a crash take a look at dummy I’m alright, I’ll survive. I’ll reside to struggle one other day.”
In accordance with Wielerflits, the race jury deemed Van Schip liable 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 gained gold within the occasion, with Oliveira admitting shock.
“First medal within the monitor … 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 boundaries,” he mentioned.
“I’ve by no means gained 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 prospect 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.
