Laura Kenny & Katie Archibald win GOLD! 🥇🥇 | Women’s Madison – The Final 20 Laps | Tokyo 2020

The women’s Madison made its debut at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald won it in style to secure gold for Team GB. Relive the final 20 laps!

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That’s Laura Kenny Julie left from Denmark on the wheel and the Russian Olympic Committee they are the ones that can gain everything here because if AUP is taken and granted Yep they’re now in third place so alup has been granted the results change Great Britain still in the lead

With 67 points over Denmark who are now in second place on 32 points and third place the Russian Olympic Committee on 26 points which puts him 10 car the Netherlands the world champions and France on 12 so now those three teams have really put some distance between

Themselves and the rest of the medal contenders yeah hard work for the Netherlands they’d have to do something special but they didn’t look on great form they’ve had a heavy crash with Kirsten will so if they finish in fourth place I think they’ll be happy with that

We’d love to see them try and do something for a medal but it’s not looking like their day the two Riders from the Netherlands Great Britain absolutely Unstoppable as they are still flying around the track 16 laps remaining in the first ever women’s Madison at an Olympic Games

Here and they have certainly done some training together the team of Nether um Denmark in second place Great Britain leads and the Russ Olympic Committee sit in third place well you feel the only way the Netherlands can uh get up onto the medals here is to win

The last two sprints they would give them 15 points and Vault them from fourth place at least to third because they’re trailing third place Russ olymp by 10 at the moment but they’re trailing Denmark by 16 Russian olymp Committee in third place at the moment on 36 there’s the

Bell then ultimate Sprint by points available here Denmark France and the Netherlands Great Britain are there as well they are hunting every Point here Great Britain they have been absolutely dominant they’ve onon all but one Sprint France will take it Denmark the Netherlands and then Great Britain oh the Netherlands are trying

Everything they can to gain points but it might be all over it looks like the medals are decided but Netherlands could win the last Sprint yeah if they win the last Sprint they could uh user Russia Olympic Committee 10 points available for the last spr to down into single figures

With nine laps remaining here and Kirsten F an AM to salvage something from what has been a somewhat disappointing performance for the Dutch team yep well I tell you what this has been a sensational ride by Great Britain they have been Untouchable Russian Olympic Committee Denmark oh bit of a tight squeeze there

Australians a bit of a wobble again they’ve already had one crash nine of 11 Sprints have gone the way of Lura Kenny and KD archal here they have been absolutely Supreme dominating this first Madison race at the Olympic Games and they want to stay out in front

Out of trouble it’ll be a painful last six laps Julie left there of Denmark can see they’re in silver medal position well for the silver medal it’s all going to come down to that last Sprint silver and bronze it looks pretty well decided at this point with Great Britain leading

Denmark in second Russian Olympic Committee in third well if Russian Olympic Committee win the Sprint and Denmark don’t get any points they would move into Silvera and the Netherlands if they win the Sprint could move into bronze as long as the Russian olymp committee finish below third so that’s

How tight it can be the gold medal is pretty much decided with Great Britain in the the dominant position and this young Russian combination have been absolutely outstanding they have been and they’re in Prime position to take maximum points to cured builds she’s given a shake of

The head to Amy Peters saying I can’t Sprint so she must have been injured with three laps when they come around to go you can see the fight now from the Russian Olympic Committee Denmar not there come round once more for the Bell they’re winding up for the final Sprint remember double points

Here 1064 and two it could determine the minor medals Great Britain have got this race in hand there’s no question about it they have the uh the gold medal a wave on there from Katie Aral as she Powers away Laura Kenny goes to the front they are going to win this it has

Been an outstanding performance Here Comes Great Britain Laura Kenny Katy archal are the Olympic big Champions the first in Madison at the Olympic Games Great Britain have been dominant all the way through second place will go to Denmark and the Russian Olympic Committee will take the bronze medal but what a

Brilliant ride by ktie archal and Laura Kenny they pick up double points at the end for good measure to just put the stamp on a superb performance well I tell you what that ride from Great Britain was something special we may never see anything like it again winning

On 78 points we see Laura Kenny there just getting her breath back before she starts the celebrations and they won all but two of the Sprints quite superb let’s not forget the crash that Katie archal had half of her skin suits being ripped off and they go straight

To the barricades there to celebrate Laura Kenny and Katie archal there’s the emotions from Julie leth and Amia Dion the first Olympic women’s Madison champions of all time that went exactly to plan I mean we we were really strict on our approach we’ve been um playing around with uh what we think our game plan will be for this race for a little while and anytime we kind of varied from

Our our skill set it went wrong we knew that we did not want to be the ones that push a lap we wanted to be the ones that stop the lap we knew that we didn’t want to be the ones that uh go all out in the

Sprint I know it might not seem that way but we thought we just if we can be in every single Sprint it’ll break even um and when you when you go that way in the back end you can really just take advantage of of other people’s legs

Starting to come off oh God I’m dizzy now but uh yeah if um um if you stick to that confidence and and trusted the plan that like I say with finesse over months and months uh it tends to work or it’s proven to work and Laura how much did

You feel in control in that race in a race that seemed like no one could ever be in control of just so in control I mean I said earlier it’s 60 laps to go I felt like I’d barely touched the pedals and I just felt like we had so much

Thinking time because we were in control and when the French attacked I was just like way off the chain and I thought yeah can catch that and I don’t know I just yeah I felt like we stuck to our plan we didn’t let anyone Sid track us

We just had to do what we set out to do and yeah it paid off and it’s a sport where percentages mean so much I mean even the helmets you were wearing how much did that really affect everything yeah so our uh our performance director comes from sailing and we said we really

We want to pick a helmet that we can just see without much so that if it’s just a corner of your eye I know exactly where law is you know exactly where I am and he keeps getting us to go orange you know like color of boys and that we’re

Like the one people we want to beat are going to be an orange andly the dut turned up in Black helmets but sorry and Laura has it sunk in exactly what you’ve achieved in another Olympic games no not yet oh I don’t know you know when I feel

Pregnant with Alby there was a moment that I thought I woke up about I maybe it was 2 months pregnant and I said to Jace I can’t do this like I literally am not going to be able to carry on there’s just no way why here we are here we are

And watching you go around it look like you were enjoying it can you enjoy that I get this a lot that’s a yeah my happy my happy face is when I’m just like looking up to the sky that’s my pain face but yeah we can enjoy it

Now like Laura says fantastic team is this just start of the continuation of something brilliant oh I hope so well ain’t that far away eh yeah women’s first medicine it’s we’ll be in the the first is the first line of that Wikipedia page which I’m very happy about congratulations absolutely super Wel on your