Nevertheless, the Norwegian bet a small amount on his offspring - and won.
Father makes a horrendous profit
"I'm not really a gambler, but I bet 50 crowns on my son. And I got 5000 back," Foss tweeted, ending with two smiley faces laughing with tears. Converted, the stake was five euros and the winnings 500 euros.
Foss senior pursued the race in front of the television at home in Vingrom, near Lillehammer. "We hugged each other, we shouted, we cheered here on the sofa," Foss told Norwegian radio NRK.
"I feel like I'm outside my body. We have raised the flag." Tobias Foss outsprinted the entire cycling elite in Wollongong on Sunday to become world champion against the clock, three seconds ahead of Switzerland's Stefan Küng. No Norwegian had ever achieved this before.
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