The medal ceremony was just under an hour later.<\/p>\n
Morris had heard her victories played out for GB with a different anthem but she looked to be overcome when celebrating this one with the Welsh national song.<\/p>\n
No time to immediately reflect on what she had just achieved though.<\/p>\n
There was a quick chance for a picture with the Welsh flag and then off it was to the next task.<\/p>\n
The scratch race started just 10 minutes later where Morris lined up with Welsh team-mates Megan Barker and Carys Lloyd.<\/p>\n
It looked like they had concocted an almost perfect plan, with Barker going off a few laps out and Morris driving through to finish second behind Australian winner Georgia Baker.<\/p>\n
A gold and a silver all in one day. Or so we thought. <\/p>\n
Morris had already done some interviews celebrating this fact before she was given the message in the media mixed zone about her demotion.<\/p>\n
Morris had been relegated for entering the sprinter’s lane when her New Zealand opponent was already there, and Scottish cyclist Erin Boothman was promoted to bronze. <\/p>\n
Morris returned to do a couple more interviews, ironically, while the scratch closing ceremony was going on.<\/p>\n
Morris reflected on her golden moment.<\/p>\n
“It was just a dream,” said Morris. “We get that opportunity once every four years, so for it to come together tonight was amazing.<\/p>\n
“I have my family and friends in the crowd and the support team from Welsh Cycling were also there.<\/p>\n
“I’m going to carry that with me forever, it’s amazing.”<\/p>\n
Morris seemed unaware of her dominance in the race.<\/p>\n
“It was only when I crossed the line I knew I’d won the race,” said Morris.<\/p>\n
“I focused on my ride and tried to execute it well and really leave it all out on the track.”<\/p>\n
It had been a day of mixed emotions and, when asked to sum up her feelings about the scratch race, Morris was whisked off so we will have to wait for that verdict.<\/p>\n
So, disappointment to finish the day but that should not take away from her pursuit domination and golden moment. <\/p>\n
Morris is a world champion for a reason and she proved why.<\/p>\n
Wales cycling have two special world-class talents in Finucane and Morris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The medal ceremony was just under an hour later. Morris had heard her victories played out for GB…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-839372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}