Paris 2024: Megan Armitage finishes 35th in cycling road race

Megan Armitage finished 35th in the women's road race in Paris, 7:35mins behind gold medal winner Kristen Faulkner of the USA.

Netherlands rider Marianne Vos took silver as she won a three-person sprint to the line, with Belgium's Lotte Kopecky edging Hungary's Vas Blanka for bronze.

American Faulkner caused a major upset, making the most of the top guns' mind games to snatch the biggest victory of her career.

The US champion, along with Belgian Lotte Kopecky, caught the leading duo of Dutch great Vos and Hungarian Blanka Vas with 3.4km remaining and immediately produced a brutal acceleration.

Vas, Vos and Kopecky looked at each other, all three reluctant to burn the little energy they had left to chase, and let Faulkner ride to glory by the Eiffel Tower.

Vos won the three-women sprint to take silver and Kopecky claimed the bronze.