- French rider puts bad luck at previous Games behind her
- Teammate Loana Lecomte suffers bad injury in crash
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot laid the ghost of bitter experiences in past Olympic Games with an accomplished ride to an emotional gold medal for France in the women’s mountain biking, but it was a mixed day for the hosts after Loana Lecomte sustained a serious injury in a crash.
For Ferrand-Prévot it was a monumental victory, long in the making, in what is expected to be her last mountain biking race. The 32-year-old, five times a world champion, was 25th in London 2012, forced to abandon after a crash at the Rio Olympics, and thwarted by a puncture in Tokyo.
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