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Korea's Jin wins third straight gold in 50m pistol
High winds scupper rowing program again
RIO DE JANEIRO — Fabian Cancellara ensured his retirement at the end of the year would be golden by reclaiming the Olympic cycling time-trial title in Rio Wednesday.
The Beijing 2008 champion, who could finish only seventh in London four years ago after being affected by a crash in the road race, was totally dominant as he beat Tom Dumoulin into second with Tour de France champion Chris Froome back in third.
Known as Spartacus in the professional cycling peloton, Cancellara was long considered the best time-trialist in the world as he won four world titles.
In recent years the 35-year-old had been surpassed by German Tony Martin, who could finish only 12th, London champion Bradley Wiggins and even Dumoulin.
But he proved he still had one big performance left in him by storming to gold along the 54.5km route in a time of 1hr 12min 15.42sec, to beat Dumoulin by 47sec, with Froome, who also won bronze in London, more than a minute behind.
South Korea's Jin Jong-oh shot his way back from the brink of elimination to win his third consecutive gold in the Olympic men's 50meter pistol event.
With a steadier hand in the final rounds, Jin prevailed over Vietnam's Xuan Vinh Hoang, who made history Saturday by winning his country's first gold medal.
Kim Song Guk of North Korea won the bronze in his first ever international final.
The 36-year-old Jin, ranked No. 1 in the world, is one of the Olympics' most decorated pistol shooters, having won the 50-meter titles at Beijing and London, where he also claimed the 10m air pistol event.
The grim weather, however, forced the cancellation of the day's rowing regatta and delayed the start of the tennis.
The day had been due to deliver the first medals of the competition with the finals of the women's quadruple sculls and the men's quadruple sculls.
These will now be run on Thursday - weather permitting - along with the next four finals, World Rowing Federation (FISA) executive director Matt Smith said.
Meanwhile, games organizers said an attack on a bus carrying journalists Tuesday which left three people injured on an "act of vandalism".
Rio 2016 security chief Luiz Fernando Correa said the attackers used stones, contradicting accounts by witnesses who said shots had been fired at the vehicle.
"We think it's an act of vandalism rather than a criminal act with the intention of injuring someone," Correa said.
Correa defended security along the bus route and said it would be "impossible" to provide complete protection.
"It would be humanly impossible to exclude a person within range of throwing," Correa said.
