Twitter reacts to Fabian Cancellara and Kristin Armstrong's Olympic time trial wins

Here's how people reacted to the men's and women's Olympic time trials at Rio 2016

Hayley Simmonds, who arguably should have been racing in Rio, was very pleased about Fabian Cancellara's victory

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Former teammate Jens Voigt congratulated the Swiss on finishing his career with such a big result

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Orica-BikeExchange's communications director joined the chorus of congratulations

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Bauke Mollema firstly acknowledged his compatriot's ride for silver but then gave deserved praise to the gold medallist

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Cafe Roubaix summed up Spartacus's incredible palmarès

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Kristin Armstrong (USA) took her third consecutive gold in the women's event earlier in the day and praise flowed in for her, too.

Silver medallist Olga Zabelinskaya (Russia) finished an 18-month doping ban in September 2015 which was in plenty of time for her to appear at Rio 2016.

That recent infringement had not been forgotten by those commenting on the final result

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Taylor Phinney did not perform as well as he would have wanted - finishing 22nd at 5-10, but he was still pleased for his fellow American

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Dan Craven (Namibia), who only decided to ride the men's event after his Twitter fans overwhelmingly voted for him to do so, kept up his theme of loving rusk biscuits

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USA Cycling highlighted a small problem Armstrong will be pleased to have

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Armstrong shared the victory with her young son

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Jack Elton-Walters hails from the Isle of Wight, and would be quick to tell anyone that it's his favourite place to ride. He has covered a varied range of topics for Cycling Weekly, producing articles focusing on tech, professional racing and cycling culture. He moved on to work for Cyclist Magazine in 2017 where he stayed for four years until going freelance. He now returns to Cycling Weekly from time-to-time to cover racing, review cycling gear and write longer features for print and online. He is not responsible for misspelled titles on box outs, and he lost the argument about using UK spellings