Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel recovered from a nasty crash to claim victory in a thrilling men’s road race at the Cycling World Championships in Glasgow, which was earlier halted by a protest.
The 28-year-old attacked in the last 25km and held on despite breaking a shoe as he fell on rain-soaked roads.
Belgium’s Wout van Aert took silver and Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia outsprinted Denmark’s Mads Pedersen for bronze.
Five people were arrested after a protest caused a 50-minute delay.
The 271.1km route from Edinburgh, which was paused after about 80km of racing for the protest, ended with 10 laps of a 14.3km circuit of Glasgow’s city centre.
“It means everything. It was one of my biggest goals and to win it today is amazing,” Van der Poel told BBC Sport.
“It almost completes my career in my opinion, it’s almost my biggest victory on the road.”
On his fall, he added: “I was not taking risks, I don’t know, all of a sudden I was on the ground. It was super slippery.
“To still manage to pull it off, I wouldn’t say it makes it nicer as I would have loved to have stayed on the bike.