And yet the 32-year-old found himself hurling his body through the idyllic streets of Paris, past the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, as he won the men’s marathon gold medal in Olympic record time.

Tom Pidcock delivered Great Britain its first Olympic medal in mountain biking late Monday afternoon in Japan, a gold, breaking midway at Shizuoka's Izu MTB Course to win the men's event by 20 seconds ...