Olympics-Cycling-Netherlands 'bullet train' powers to team sprint gold


Paris 2024 Olympics - Track Cycling - Men's Team Sprint, First Round - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France - August 06, 2024. Roy van den Berg of Netherlands, Harrie Lavreysen of Netherlands and Jeffrey Hoogland of Netherlands in action during heat 4. REUTERS/Matthew Childs

SAINT QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (Reuters) -The flying Dutch broke the world record twice in the space of an hour to retain their Olympic title in the men's team sprint in dominant fashion at the National Velodrome on Tuesday.

Massive favourites ahead of the Games, the Netherlands trio of Roy van den Berg, Harrie Lavreysen and Jeffrey Hoogland put on a sprinting masterclass to power to gold.

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