Italy produced an electrifying finish to beat favourites Denmark for gold in a thrilling finish to a see-sawing men's team pursuit final at the Izu Velodrome on Wednesday.
The Azzurri trailed late on in the four-km duel but lead man Filippo Ganna powered them back in the closing laps and they crossed the linein 3:42.032 to lower the world record they set in Tuesday's heats, with the Danes an agonising 0.166 slower.
The blue-clad Italian train led for the first half of the 16 laps around the 250-metre wooden oval, but Denmark piled on the pressure to take the lead and then turned the screw.Ganna poured on the power and his team began eating into the deficit and took gold on the last lap. Denmark had ripped up the team pursuit blueprint when they smashed the world record to win gold at the 2020 world championships in Berlin and headed to Tokyo looking set to win the team pursuit for the first time since 1968.
In Tuesday's ride against Britain they outclassed the defending champions and actually caught them but the heat ended controversially when Frederick Madsen ploughed into the back of Charlie Tanfield, leading to more objections from the British.
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