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Julien Absalon of France has won his second straight Olympic gold medal in men's mountain biking, easily holding off countryman Jean-Christophe Peraud for the title.
A four-time world champion, Absalon completed eight laps around the course in 1 hour, 55 minutes, 59 seconds to become the first man with two Olympic mountain biking titles.
Peraud finished 1:07 back of Absalon. Switzerland's Nino Schurter was third, finishing 1:53 behind Absalon and beating fellow Swiss racer Christoph Sauser — the 2000 Olympic bronze medalist — to the finish line by two seconds.
Saturday's event was the final cycling competition of the Beijing Games.
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