Team GB’s hopes of a further medal in the Olympic velodrome were ended in a crash-riddled men’s Madison when Ollie Wood was unceremoniously butted out of the way by Jan-Willem van Schip of the Netherlands, and sent crashing to the track.
Any fading hopes that Wood and Mark Stewart, who had failed to score highly during the race, might reverse that deficit in the final moments of the 200-lap race, evaporated as a stunned Wood struggled to his feet.
