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Monday 7 March 2016

Britain’s Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish hold up a British United States’ forward Alex Morgan (13) scores the game-winning goal as she is defended by
flag as they pose for photographers with their gold medals af- France’s Laura Georges (4), Griedge Mbock Bathy (19) and Jessica Houara D’Hommeaux (8)
ter winning the Men’s Madison race at the World Track Cycling during the second half of a SheBelieves Cup women’s soccer match Sunday, March 6, 2016, in
championships at the Lee Valley Velopark in London, Sunday Nashville, Tenn. The goal gave the United States a 1-0 win.
March 6, 2016.
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Alex Morgan scores in stoppage
Wiggins conquers time as U.S. beats France 1-0

world ‘like Obama’ as

Britain tops medals

LIZ BYRNES ten a better script,” added TERESA M. WALKER national goal and made one more game to go.”
Associated Press Wiggins. “It was like deja vu AP Sports Writer up for not connecting on Solo deflected a shot from
LONDON (AP) — Bradley from eight years ago. We NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — a pass in the first half from Louisa Necib in the 14th
Wiggins kissed the track went on to conquer the Alex Morgan scored a min- Meghan Klingenberg. minute, then France missed
and jokingly compared world in those eight years, ute into second-half stop- “Mall played me in perfect- on a flurry shortly after. The
himself to Barack Obama like Barack Obama. We’ve page time, Hope Solo post- ly, and all I needed to do ball clanged off the left
as he said farewell to the had a good term in presi- ed her 97th career shutout, was put it past the keeper,” post when Carli Lloyd tried
Olympic velodrome in Lon- dency. and the United States beat Morgan said. to clear it, forcing Solo to
don on Sunday after team- Come back, full circle and France 1-0 on Sunday in The U.S. outshot France dive to her right before go-
ing up with Mark Cavendish won it again.” the SheBelieves Cup. 10-8 after managing only ing back to her left to save
to win the madison, the last The pair won despite Cav- With the victory over the three shots in the first half, a shot from Marie-Laure
event of the track world cy- endish coming off his bike, No. 3 team in the world, with Solo making some key Delie.
cling championships. only to get back on. the top-ranked Americans saves for her 146th interna- “It was nice to be able to
It was Wiggins’ final ap- “We knew we had the improved to 8-0-0 in 2016, tional victory. have her back and be
pearance at the track legs to do it,” Wiggins said. outscoring opponents 30-0. “When you can have the able to make the save,”
where an ecstatic home “We just kept on going. We The U.S. has won its first two win and a great perfor- Solo said.
crowd cheered the pair’s didn’t come here to finish games of the SheBelieves mance, I think it’s a good In the second half, Delie’s
gold medal as the host fin- fourth.” Cup after beating No. 5 feeling,” U.S. coach Jill Ellis header went wide before
ished top of the medals ta- Cavendish added: “Hear- England on Thursday. said. “I think the players left Tobin Heath’s shot missed
ble with five golds among ing the crowd at the end On the lone goal, 17-year- there with a good feeling. wide left in the 56th minute
a total of nine. kept us going. It’s incred- old Mallory Pugh controlled ... Obviously ecstatic with for the U.S.
“It was my last race on this ible, it’s untrue.” the ball just past midfield the world-class goal at the The SheBelieves Cup wraps
track,” said Wiggins, who It followed Trott’s second and passed ahead to Mor- end there. But as I said to up March 9 in Boca Raton,
intends to compete in the gold medal of the com- gan, who sprinted through the players, it’s also three Florida, with France playing
Rio Olympics. “Not bad petition, as she added the the defense for a left-foot- points in this tournament. England and the U.S. fac-
was it?” omnium title to the scratch ed shot that beat goal- This is our first time at this ing second-ranked Germa-
Wiggins and Cavendish race. keeper Sarah Bouhaddi. It tournament, and we’d ob- ny in this tuneup for the Rio
won the world title back in Trott headed the first sprint was Morgan’s 63rd inter- viously love to win it. And Olympics.
2008, since when Wiggins of the points race to take
has become the first Brit- the maximum five points
ish winner of the Tour de and from there steadily ex-
France and Cavendish a tended her lead to finish
26-time stage winner. They with 201 points. Laurie Ber-
reunited in the event one thon won a sprint finish with
last time to take gold eight Sarah Hammer to beat the
years on. American to silver with one
“You couldn’t have writ- point.