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Broke the bottle rule - no protest from Sweden

The mountain biker Jenny Rissveds took an Olympic Games bronze in Paris. But could it have been changed to a silver due to an American rule violation?

» Updated: 10 September 2024, 19:41

» Published: 28 July 2024

Broke the bottle rule - no protest from Sweden
Photo: Thibault Camus/AP/TT

Mountain biker Jenny Rissveds took Olympic Games bronze in Paris.

But could it have changed to a silver due to an American rule breach?

American Haley Batten, who came second, chose not to take a water bottle offered by a leader in a technical zone on the last lap.

Something that breaks the rules.

I didn't take a water bottle on the last lap, confirms Batten to Aftonbladet.

Batten then cycled to the finish as second, while Rissveds came third. Rissveds herself says this about Batten's situation with the water bottle:

We all make mistakes. It can happen to anyone. In our team, we had read about the rules and that we weren't allowed to do that. So I took a bottle and just dropped it to be on the safe side. She simply forgot.

But will there be a protest from the Swedish side? There won't be, says the bronze medalist.

No. I won't file a protest.

Something that Anders Wiggerud, sports manager at the Swedish Olympic Committee, also confirms.

We won't act on that. The bronze is a bronze, he says.

For Jenny Rissveds, the bronze was her second Olympic Games medal in her career. She has previously won an Olympic Games gold from Rio de Janeiro 2016.

Born: June 6, 1994 (30 years old), in Falun.

Lives: Falun.

Sport: Mountain bike.

Club: Team 31.

International merits (in the Olympic cross-country event): Olympic Games gold 2016, Olympic Games bronze 2024, 14th at the Olympic Games 2021, U23 World Championship gold 2016, several World Cup wins.

Other: Awarded the Victoria Scholarship 2017.

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