
LONDON (Reuters) - Denmark's Lasse Norman Hansen overcame the trauma of skin-scraping crash to win gold in the men's omnium thanks to a scorching time-trial to close out the multi-discipline event in style on Sunday. The Dane tumbled to floor in the penultimate scratch race before getting back in the saddle and clinching gold in a dramatic time-trial finale. Hansen was tied in a three-way points lead with France's Bryan Coquard, who claimed the silver, and Italy's Elia Viviani heading into the showdown event but he edged out all his gold-medal rivals in the decider. ...
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