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.
Watch as France's Julien Absalon repeat his gold medal winning performance Athens.
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.
Americans Todd Wells and Adam Craig failed to finish the course.
Saturday's event was the final cycling competition of the Beijing Games.
Photo by MAJU IN BEIJING
