Olympics | "Robot" Ferrand Prevot shuts out sounds to claim Olympic gold

PARIS, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Pauline Ferrand Prevot of France "rode like a robot," to put previous Olympic disappointments behind her to take the gold medal in the women's mountain bike cross-country race on the outskirts of Paris on Sunday.

She finished the seven circuits of the 4.4-kilometer mountain bike course in one hour, 26 minutes and two seconds; a massive two minutes and 57 seconds ahead of Haley Batten o