Men’s sprint final at the 2004 Athens Olympics
Date: July 30, 2014 / Posted by Glenn Mitchell
The men’s sprint is the blue riband event at the Olympic velodrome . Up until 2004 Australia had never succeeded in winning gold. That all changed however when West Australian Ryan Bayley overcame Dutch world champion Theo Bos in the third and deciding race of the final.
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- Ralp Waldo Emerson
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Queensland skipper Usman Khawaja enforces the follow-on and Travis Head, his rival for a middle order berth in the first Ashes Test, scores a century
This season:
Khawaja 408 runs at 58, 2 x 100
Head 394 runs at 49, 2 x 100
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