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Cyclist who flipped off US president wins local election

Juli Briskman, whose one-handed salute was captured by an AFP photographer, has beaten the Republican incumbent to a seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. [AFP]

A cyclist who was fired after flipping the bird -- making a rude single-fingered gesture -- to US President Donald Trump's motorcade has been elected to local office in Virginia.

Juli Briskman, whose one-handed salute was captured in an AFP photograph that went viral, beat the Republican incumbent to a seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors in state elections that saw Trump's Republican party suffer a series of stinging defeats.

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