TOKYO: Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz won Olympic gold in the men’s cycling road race, timing to perfection a tactical, final descent after a tough 234km course worthy of a mountain stage of the Grand Tour.
It was only Ecuador’s second-ever gold at the Olympics after that of Jefferson Perez in the 50km race walk in the 1996 Atlanta Games.
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