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For 15 glorious seconds this kid totally thought he'd won a world title

Daniel McMahon   

For 15 glorious seconds this kid totally thought he'd won a world title
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"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes," Andy Warhol is credited as having said. In the mind of Czech cyclist Adam Toupalík, it was more like 15 seconds.

At the world championships of cyclocross in Belgium on Sunday, the 19-year-old sprinted up to the finish line ahead of his rivals and began celebrating, thinking he'd just won gold.

Only problem was, there was still a lap to go in the race:

Toupalík said the confusion came after he heard fans shouting "last lap," VeloNews reported. Belgian rider Eli Iserbyt ended up winning the race, with Toupalík second.

But the biggest story of the weekend was that another 19-year-old rider got caught cheating after racing on a bike that had a motor hidden in the frame.

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