Wood and Stewart miss out in crash-strewn madison

Ollie Wood and Mark Stewart missed retired connected adding different cycling badge to Great Britain's postulation arsenic Portugal won a historical first Olympic golden connected nan way successful nan men's madison.

The British brace - existent world metallic medallists - vanished 10th. They picked up 11 points connected nan sprints but were lapped aft Wood was brought down successful 1 of respective crashes.

Stewart was a precocious replacement for Ethan Hayter, who withdrew pinch a thigh strain suffered during Wednesday’s metallic medal-winning squad pursuit.

"I consciousness for illustration I person been rear-ended by a lorry," Wood, 28, told BBC Sport. "The biggest rider connected nan way deed maine from behind.

"There were rather a fewer crashes successful that conception of nan race. I deliberation everyone was truthful connected their limit, cognitive usability starts to spell astatine that point."

Stewart, besides 28, said: "It's nan Olympics; if location is thing we learned from nan 5 days starring into this, it was going to beryllium nan hardest madison anyone has experienced.

"We were fresh for it. At nan extremity of nan time we conscionable lacked that small spot physically."

An inspired capacity complete nan 200 laps from Iuri Leitao and Rui Oliveira, including a blistering last sprint to triumph double points, saw them go Portugal's first Olympic champions successful Paris.

They vanished connected 55 points, 8 points up of Italy who took silver. Bronze went to Denmark connected 41.

Portugal had ne'er won a badge successful way cycling earlier Leitao's metallic successful nan omnium connected Thursday.

Elsewhere successful Saturday's action astatine nan Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome, Britain's Emma Finucane reached nan semi-finals of nan women's individual sprint - nan arena successful which she is nan world champion.

Sophie Capewell, who won squad sprint golden alongside Finucane and Katy Marchant connected Monday, exited successful nan quarter-finals.

In nan men's keirin, some Jack Carlin and Hamish Turnbull progressed to nan quarter-finals, though Turnbull had to spell done nan repechages.

Both those competitions will reason connected Sunday, nan last time of nan 2024 Olympics.

For Finucane and Carlin, it represents nan opportunity for a 3rd Olympic medal, pinch Finucane having besides won keirin bronze successful summation to nan squad sprint gold, while Carlin won squad sprint metallic and individual bronze.

Women's madison metallic medallist Neah Evans will besides return to nan boards connected Sunday successful nan omnium, wherever riders title 4 events - nan scratch, tempo, elimination and points races.

Great Britain person won 7 medals truthful acold astatine nan velodrome - adjacent to their haul from nan Tokyo Olympics 3 years ago.