Men's Madison
Argentina wins gold in men’s madison - cycling
Argentina has won the gold medal in the men’s madison at the Beijing Olympics. Spain won the silver medal and the bronze was won by Russia.
Argentina
CURUCHET Juan Esteban
PEREZ Walter Fernando
Spain
LLANERAS Joan
TAULER Antonio
Russian Fed.
IGNATYEV Mikhail
MARKOV Alexei
Bobby Lea and Michael Blatchford have now joined the U.S. track cycling team after making qualifying times.
Bobby Lea will compete in the points race and the Madison and Blatchford in the team sprint. They join 17-year old Taylor Phinney on the team.
“The performances by our athletes over the course these last couple of days [...]
