Bahn-News: Domenic Weinstein drove a furious tournament in London until now. Yesterday he dominated the individual pursuit together with Italian Filippo Ganna. Consequently, the two also faced each other in the final - where the extremely strong Italian Weinstein didn't give Weinstein a chance at all. The 21-year-old cannot be happy about silver at the moment.
It was a brutal finale in the Individual Pursuit for Domenic Weinstein last night at the Olympic Velodrome in London. The 21-year-old German from the Black Forest got off to a good start and in the first few laps gained a decent lead of around seven tenths over his Italian rival. So the two did lap after lap and even though the lead at the 3.000m mark had shrunk to a little more than half a second, it still looked like it was going to be a close affair.
But then came the big show by Filippo Ganna. The only 19-year-old suddenly put two or three shovels on it and drove at a murderous pace. The already visibly battered German didn't have a chance to react - Ganna finally took an impressive three seconds off Weinstein in just 750m. It was a show of force - in the end Ganna (4:16,141) and Weinstein (4:18,275) separated by more than two seconds. Exhausted and disappointed, the German put his face in his hands after the race - that the silver medal is a great success, especially since the German drivers had hardly achieved anything in this discipline in recent years, Weinstein did not realize at these moments: "It will take me a few days to really understand that second place is a win," he said disappointed.
Roger Kluge also looks set to win a medal in the men's omnium. The IAM Cycling pro is currently in fourth place after three of six disciplines, tied on points with third-placed Thomas Boudat from France. Kluge's special discipline awaits on Sunday – the points race.
Surprisingly, the team from the USA also won the women's foursome ahead of their North American neighbors Canada. In the points race, the Brit Jonathan Dibben, who had already been favored beforehand, won the race with the same number of points ahead of the surprisingly strong Austrian Andreas Graf. Leif Lampater had to cancel his start due to illness. Tonight are the title fights in the men's sprint and the women's points race. The live stream starts at 19:00 p.m.
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