All Too Easy for Vos Marianne Vos made it look all too easy as she claimed Gold in the Women's Points race at the Beijing Olympics, beating Cuba's Yoanka Gonzalez and Leire Olaberria of Spain in a World Class performance Vos simply sat in collecting a eight points from the first few sprints before making a solo attack to lap the field with ease and secure that all important 20 points to secure victory All that was left with after that was to avoid a nasty crash which saw former World Pursuit Champion Sarah Hammer leave the track with a suspected broken collarbone. The battle for Silver saw Gonzalez clinch the medal in the final sprint with Olaberria securing three points to just edge Maria Luisa Calle, who had been in second position for the majority of the race, down into fourth Women's Points Race Final Results 1 Marianne Vos (Netherlands) 30 pts 2 Yoanka Gonzalez (Cuba) 18 3 Leire Olaberria (Spain) 13 4 Maria Luisa Calle (Colombia) 13 5 Lesya Kalitovska (Ukraine) 10 6 Katherine Bates (Australia) 10 7 Pascale Jeuland (France) 8 8 Olga Slyusareva (Russia) 8 9 Gina Grain (Canada) 6 10 Yan Li (China) 6 11 Rebecca Romero (Great Britain) 3 12 Svetlana Pauliukaite (Lithuania) 2 13 Lada Kozlikova (Czech Republic) 2 14 Vera Carrara (Italy) 1 15 Wan Yiu Wong (Hong Kong) 16 Evelyn Garcia (El Salvador) 17 Catherine Cheatley (New Zealand) 18 Trine Schmidt (Denmark) 19 Minhye Lee (Korea) -40 DNF Sarah Hammer (United States) DNF Satomi Wadami (Japan) DNF Verena Jooss (Germany) 
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