Britain’s Garner retains junior road race crown

Britain’s Lucy Garner retained her junior women’s road race title at the cycling world road championships here on Friday. The 18-year-old finished ahead of Norway’s Eline Brustad and Italy’s Anna Stricker to give Britain a second junior gold of the championships after Wales’s Elinor Barker won the time-trial earlier this week. Garner becomes the first junior to win consecutive gold medals since compatriot Nicole Cooke (2000, 2001), the 2008 Olympic road race champion. Meanwhile, the International Cycling Union backed away from the idea of an amnesty or truth and reconciliation commission for riders who took performance-enhancing drugs in the past. At its annual congress, the UCI adopted a motion calling on the governing body to deal with current doping cases and “ignore attempts to exploit commercially or otherwise the painful aspects of cycling’s past.” The motion was drawn up by the UCI’s management committee.