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Laura Weislo

Paris Olympics: Dutch team baffled by officials not calling Jack Carlin on 'rugby on wheels'

Britain's Jack Carlin and Netherlands' Jeffrey Hoogland compete in a men's track cycling sprint final race 2 for bronze of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games .

Jack Carlin brought home the bronze medal in the Paris Olympics men's track cycling individual sprint event on Friday, but he did so to a mix of cheers from the Union Jack-waving British fans and boos from the orange-clad Dutch supporters of his rival in the final, Jeffrey Hoogland.

Carlin had faced a warning in his quarterfinal match when he defeated Japan's Ota Kaiya in the third head-to-head, and the memory of the incident was fresh in the mind of the Dutch coach, Mehdi Kordi, when Carlin faced Hoogland for the bronze medal.

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