Olympic time trial: Chris Froome salutes 'unbeatable' Cancellara

"I gave it everything I had," says Tour de France winner

Chris Froome (GBr) receives the bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics (Sunada)

(Image credit: Yuzuru SUNADA)

Bronze-medal winner Chris Froome says that the margin of Fabian Cancellara's victory in the Olympic time trial was so wide that he is left with no regrets.

One of the pre-event favourites, the Tour de France winner never looked in contention from the first split, as Cancellara rolled back the years in his final Olympic appearance to claim a gold medal for Switzerland.

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