Too fast: Britain’s Thomas Pidcock (front) leads France’s Victor Koretzky during the men’s cross-country mountain biking event. — AFP
TOM Pidcock made no apology for spoiling another French party at the Olympic mountain bike course after shattering the hopes of Victor Koretzky to retain his title.
Pidcock, who turned 25 yesterday, found himself 40 seconds behind Koretzky after a front-wheel puncture on the fourth of eight laps of the 4.4km Elancourt Hill.
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