The Chinese cycling team isn't to happy with the women’s sprint team being relegated from the gold medal to silver at the Olympic Games and they have now sent a second letter of appeal to the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The first appeal was rejected last Friday.

Gong Jinjie (pictured) and Guo Shuang appeared to have won the gold on the first night of track competition in the velodrome, finishing 0.179 seconds quicker than the German riders Kristina Vogel and Miriam Welte in the final, but were later relegated to silver for a botched exchange.

The Chinese had already celebrated their victory lap and the Germans had gone off to do their interviews. When it was time for the prize ceremony, Vogel and Welte were cleaned up before they received their first gold medals.

The exchange line was difficult to see while racing and that seems to be the reason why the Chinese team (but also Great Britain and some other countries) has problems with going outside the zone.