Thank you for joining us for day 15 of the Olympics. We will be back tomorrow for the final day of competition with many more medals to come. After the sport is all over we will also have live coverage of the closing ceremony with rumours Tom Cruise will make an appearance. For now here are some of the day’s top stories:
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.
“He hit me so hard, I felt like a crash-test dummy,” Wood said. “It’s not my first crash – just a bit different when you get hit from behind, you don’t see it coming. Instead of taking a high line around the track, I thought he’d cut it a bit fine and just ploughed into me.”
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