Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium) won a gruelling Olympic men's road race after a day of innumerable attacks and counter attacks, and an unfortunate number of crashes.
With full race coverage on the BBC, most people sat down for some or all of the very long parcours. Probably before they'd caught their breath from such an exciting race, plenty of people took to Twitter to let us know what they though.
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