Japan’s Yumi Kajihara won silver in the women’s track cycling omnium Sunday and celebrated in front of a home crowd after a Games where Japanese athletes were forced to revel in victory in largely empty stadiums.
The omnium competition involves four very different races: scratch, tempo, elimination and points.
A huge crash that involved at least nine racers in the scratch race injured many of the favorites, including British cyclist and London and Rio gold medalist Laura Kenny, though she was able to continue racing.