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Hard act to follow

Where was Sean Kelly when you needed him? If ever there was a better moment for his time-honoured phrase of ‘making the calculation’ it was when a mathematics PhD student was leading the women’s Olympic road race and something didn’t add up.

A rank outsider embodying the true amateur spirit of the Games, Cambridge graduate Anna Kiesenhofer had odds of 500-1 ahead of a race for which she prepared by coming up with an intricate heat acclimatisation process. Her only

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