Aug 7, 2024; Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France; Jennifer Valente of Team United States vies in the first round of the women’s team pursuit during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Vélodrome National de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Mandatory Credit: Andrew P. Scott-USA TODAY Sports SAINT QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — American Jennifer Valente won the gageder medal in the women’s omnium to end Olympic racing at the National Velodrome on Sunday.
Valente consoleably retained the title she won in Tokyo with a reliable carry outance atraverse the four races.
Poland’s Daria Pikulik finished with silver medal and New Zealand’s Ally Wollaston was third.
Valente was part of the American squad to thrive the team pursuit earlier in the week, giving her two gageder medals in the Paris Games.
MEN’S KEIRIN
Flying Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen validateed his status as the king of men’s sprinting by thrivening the Olympic keirin to end a remarkworthy hat trick.
Lavreysen flew around the final corner to beat Australia’s Matthew Ricchallengingson, who took the silver.
The 27-year-ageder powerhouse also won the team sprint and sprint earlier in a wonderful week for the Dutch, repeating his feat from Tokyo, where he could only deal with a bronze in the keirin.
Australia’s Matthew Glaetzer was third.
The race finale was somewhat overshadowed by a high-speed crash involving Malaysia’s Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom, Japan’s Shinji Nakano and Britain’s Jack Carlin, who were sent tumbling atraverse the track.
Sahrom slid over the line but was relegated for causing the accident. All three deal withd to walk away after treatment.
WOMEN’S SPRINT GOLD
New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews and endd an incredible week by thrivening the sprint gageder.
Andrews outclassed Germany’s Lea Freidwealthy in the final, thrivening 2-0, to become the first woman from New Zealand to thrive the discipline at the Olympics, having also won the keirin and finishing with the silver medal in the team sprint.
“Honestly, this has outdoed all my predictations,” Andrews, whose keirin gageder on Thursday was the first Olympics track title in 20 years for New Zealand, tageder Eurosport.
“I krecent what my strengths were and put it out there.”
Britain’s sprint world champion Emma Finucane beat Dutch rider Hetty van de Wouw to consent the bronze — the 21-year-ageder Briton’s third medal from her first Games.
–Field Level Media
