Britain’s Steve Peat ended a decade of frustrating near-misses by winning the men’s downhill title on the final day at the world mountainbike championships in Canberra.
The 35-year-old, who had finished runner-up four times since 2000, snatched the gold by 0.05 seconds from South African Greg Minnaar in front of an estimated crowd of 40,000.
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Valentino Rossi said his Misano win was particularly special because it erased the unhappy memories of his crash in last weekend’s Indianapolis Grand Prix.
The world champion wore a special donkey-liveried helmet at Misano to mock himself for his fall while running second to Yamaha team-mate Jorge Lorenzo in America, an error Rossi castigated himself for making as he felt he should have settled for a podium finish given his big points lead.
Before the San Marino Grand Prix weekend the Italian had warned that he did not expect to be as quick as Lorenzo and Honda’s Dani Pedrosa around the Misano track so would settle for …Â Details