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According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Friedman and Lea got off to a good start but Lea’s legs just gave out on him in the 200km Madison race. Forced to carry much of the teams racing load during rest of the race, Friedman never really had an opportunity to score and the team gradually fell to the back of the pack.

In a related story, Lea and Friedman were extremely critical of the US Olympic committee saying that they were thrown under the bus by the committee regarding the whole mask controversy the team faced upon their arrival in Beijing.

The story as filed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette paints a sad portrait of the Olympics. Friedman say he only did what he was told and the result was he got over 15,000 emails criticising him. He said his Olympics were ruined by the experience.

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