European-Van Dijk claims cycling time trial gold for Netherlands (Reuters)
By Tom Hayward BAKU, June 18 (Reuters) – Ellen van Dijk proved Dutch cycling could cope without injured two-times Olympic Champion Marianne Vos after she won gold for the Netherlands in the women’s individual time trial at the European Games on Thursday. In the absence of Vos, who pulled out of the inaugural continental games following a spate of injuries, van Dijk beat Ukraine’s Ganna Solovei and Dutch compatriot Annemiek van Vleuten to claim her nation’s first gold medal of the games. “It is the first European Games and that is quite special.