Ethan Hayter’s slip on the last lap proved costly in the men’s event, while the women’s team won bronze
in sporting competition as Australia held on to a hair’s-breadth advantage to win gold in the men’s team pursuit.
“This is the nature of team-pursuiting at this level,” Bigham said. “It’s on a knife-edge at the back end. You’re trying to get three guys over the line absolutely empty, completely cooked. The breaking point has to be somewhere and you saw it. In another reshuffle to the British four, Ollie Wood stood down and Bigham returned after sitting out the Tuesday session to recover from a training crash. But it was Hayter whose strength was pivotal to the aspiration for a gold medal.
“Selection was up in the air, we didn’t know who the team was going to be, we didn’t know who was going to be riding or what we were going to do. It was a nervous week. We had to refocus and come up with a new strategy.”
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