It began with an Austrian mathematics lecturer bamboozling a five-star field to snatch gold in the women's road race and culminated in track king Jason Kenny in seventh heaven.
In between -- on road, dirt, track or BMX park -- the Tokyo Olympic cycling provided a constant stream of two-wheeled highlights that will live long in the memory.
They lined the brutally-steep Mikuni Pass as Ecuador's Ricard Carapaz produced a late attack to triumph in one of the hardest Olympic men's road races ever.Austrian Anna Kiesenhofer got so far in front of the main group as part of a breakaway that a high-class Dutch road trio dripping with world titles forgot she was there.
Like Van Vleuten, Slovenian Primoz Roglic was also a class apart as he won the men's time trial -- weeks after his Tour de France hopes were left in tatters. Britain struck another unexpected gold in the freestyle -- an event that literally took the sports to new heights -- with Charlotte Worthington snatching gold from American favourite Hannah Roberts by landing a 360 backflip, the first by a woman.
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