All eight Olympic mountain bike gold medallists were in the same place at the same time during a special moment at the 2012 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships this weekend in Saalfelden, Austria.
The winners from 1996 to 2012 posed for a photograph after the elite men's cross country race on Saturday. They included:
1996 - Paola Pezzo (Italy) and Bart Brentjens (Netherlands)
2000 - Paola Pezzo (Italy) and Miguel Martinez (France)
2004 - Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjaa (Norway) and Julien Absalon (France)
2008 - Sabine Spitz and Julien Absalon (France)
2012 - Julie Bresest (France) and Jaroslav Kulhavy (Czech Republic)
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