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Julien Absalon of France has won his second straight Olympic gold medal in men's mountain biking, easily holding off countryman Jean-Christophe Peraud for the title.

Germany's Sabine Spitz has won the gold medal in the Olympic women's mountain bike race, adding it to the bronze she won at the Athens Games four years ago.

Mike Day and Donny Robinson won silver and bronze in men's BMX while Jill Kintner took the bronze, giving the U.S. half of the first six medals ever awarded in Olympic BMX.

American BMX racer Kyle Bennett will get an extra day to rest his injured shoulder.

Until recently, no one would have bet against Julien Absalon of France to take the men's Olympic mountain biking title. He is still the favorite, but he has shown a few chinks in his armor this year.

All four Americans advanced into tomorrow's BMX competition, but three-time world champion Kyle Bennett dislocated his left shoulder in his third and final heat. Bennett plans to race Thursday.

Georgia Gould tends to flourish when she's beneath the radar.

BMX, the genre of cycling typically equated with 10-year-olds popping wheelies in a driveway or sprinting over a little jump built in the backyard, is all grown up. It will be an Olympic sport for the first time, starting tonight.

Those now-infamous black masks were intended to keep the four U.S. track cyclists who donned them in Beijing's airport healthy and happy. The plan failed on both counts.

Britain took seven out of the 10 golds at the Laoshan Velodrome, as well as three silvers and two bronzes. Only one British track athlete did not medal, and he won four stages at last month's Tour de France.

Britain's Chris Hoy has taken his third gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, and compatriot Victoria Pendleton her second gold. Britain won 7 of 10 gold medals in track cycling.

Argentina's Juan Esteban Curuchet and Walter Fernando Perez have won the gold medal in the men's madison, their nation's first track cycling medal of the Beijing Olympics.

Britain won the men's team pursuit gold at the Laoshan Velodrome, knocking nearly two seconds off the world record it set a day earlier. The British have five gold medals in track cycling in Beijing.

Britain won the men's team pursuit gold at the Laoshan Velodrome, knocking nearly two seconds off the world record it set a day earlier. The British have five gold medals in track cycling in Beijing.

Sarah Hammer crashed out of the Olympic women's cycling points race Monday, falling after two racers clipped wheels in front of her and caused a pileup.

Before flying to China last week, three-time world BMX champion Kyle Bennett was home, watching American swimming king Michael Phelps leave an indelible mark on Olympic history.

Cycling's governing body says it has struck a deal with the operators of the Tour de France to settle a yearslong dispute that has led to a string of court cases.

World champion Rebecca Romero has won the gold medal in women's cycling's individual pursuit, beating Wendy Houvenaghel in an all-British final. Lesya Kalitovska of Ukraine won bronze.

Not long ago, neither Rebecca Romero nor Wendy Houvenaghel had ever sat on a racing bike. On Sunday they go head-to-head in the final of the Olympic women's 3,000-meter individual pursuit competition.

Bidding to be the first American woman to medal in the Olympic sprint in 20 years, Jennie Reed beat Simona Krupeckaite of Lithuania to advance into Monday's quarterfinals. American Michael Blatchford was eliminated.

Shanaze Reade was 14 when the International Olympic Committee decided to make BMX an Olympic sport in 2008. That was the day she planned the next five years of her life.

Sarah Hammer came to Beijing with high hopes of taking home Olympic cycling gold in the individual pursuit, only to get knocked out before the medal round.

Britain's Bradley Wiggins has won his second straight Olympic gold medal in the men's 4,000-meter individual pursuit. Wiggins is also a three-time world champion in the event.

Britain's Bradley Wiggins has won his second straight Olympic gold medal in the men's 4,000-meter individual pursuit. Wiggins is also a three-time world champion in the event.