Cycling - Schurter banishes London heartache with cross-country gold


2016 Rio Olympics - Cycling mountain bike - Final - Men's Cross-country Race - Mountain Bike Centre - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 21/08/2016. Nino Schurter (SUI) of Switzerland celebrates winning the gold medal. REUTERS/Paul Hanna

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Switzerland's Nino Schurter left nothing to chance this time as he completed his full set of Olympics medals by beating Czech Jaroslav Kulhavy for gold in the men's cross-country cycling race on Sunday.

All eyes had been on Slovakia's world road race champion Peter Sagan at the start after his surprise decision to contest the mountain bike event rather than go for gold on tarmac.

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