Crash chaos for multiple cyclists (and mechanic) in Olympic TT | Videos

Taylor Knibb has had a nightmare in the Olympic TT, crashing three times before her mechanic had a crash of his own trying to help her

The women's TT at the Paris Olympics was run off in some very wet conditions - with the roads soaking before the riders even started and rain continuing to fall. And those conditions, on city roads, resulted in crashes for multiple riders.

American Taylor Knibb suffered an absolute nightmare, first crashing on the same corner where Danish rider Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig had already taken a heavy fall.

But the drama was not over there for Knibb as she crashed twice more. And when she got underway again after coming off for the third time, she was forced to stop for a bike change.

As her mechanic ran to her, spare bike in hand, he fell in the slippy conditions and slammed the spare bike into the ground, though Knibb managed to finish.

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Others to crash included hot favourite Chloe Dygert, also representing America, as well as world road race champion Lotte Kopecky of Belgium and the road race champion from Tokyo, Anna Kiesenhofer (Austria), among many others.

But there were no such problems for Australia's Grace Brown, who put in one of the performances of her life, in her last season, to win Olympic gold. She was 4th in the Tokyo 2020 TT, missing out on bronze by just seven seconds.

But today she claimed the Olympic title - over a 32.2km course - in a time of 39:38, beating silver medal winner, Anna Henderson (Great Britain), by a huge margin of 1:31. Despite her crash, Dygert still took the bronze, just one second behind Henderson.

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