Cycling: Morkov shrugs off coronavirus scare to win gold


Cycling - 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships - Men's Madison Final - Berlin, Germany - March 1, 2020. Denmark's Lasse Norman Hansen and Michael Morkov celebrate after winning. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

BERLIN (Reuters) - As preparation for a race goes, 34 hours in self-isolation in a hotel room is unlikely to catch on, but Michael Morkov shrugged it off to power Denmark to another gold at the track cycling world championships on Sunday.

Morkov, caught up in the coronavirus scare this week that shut down the UAE Tour, showed no ill-effects as he and Lasse Norman Hansen won the madison title in the Berlin velodrome.

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