Bradley Wiggins and Chris Hoy with their gold medals in Beijing.
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This is the first Chinese gold medal – we did it.
Owain Doull hopes to follow Sir Bradley Wiggins’ road to glory after winning his first Olympic title. The Aussies did a (three minutes) 53 (seconds).
And while he trails too far behind defending Olympic champion Dorian van Rijsselberghe to have a chance of landing gold, he has enough points on the board to guarantee finishing ahead of the rest of the field after Sunday’s medal race.
Wiggins now has five golds, one silver and two bronzes, although fellow cyclist Hoy’s collection includes six golds.
“Sticking his tongue out during the medal ceremony showed what a release of pressure it was”, he added.
It was the second time in the day that the British quartet of Wiggins, Ed Clancy, Owain Doull and Steven Burke had lowered the record.
“They’re my heroes in Olympic sport and just to be in the same breath as those guys is an honour really”, said a breathless Wiggins, having just notched up his eighth medal, five of them gold.
Apparently his friends, watching from the seats, had brought a Baltimore Orioles baseball tradition to Rio, chanting “Oooooooh” for the line “Oh say does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave”.
Two golds, world records, and a man alone, Sir Bradley Wiggins, the most successful British Olympian of all time.
Nick Dempsey will collect Team GB’s first sailing medal of the Rio 2016 Games after guaranteeing himself silver in the RS:X class.
Now, measured by weight of medals, he is also the most successful.
There were reports that Britain and Australia had clocked unofficial world records in training in the last 18 months and it appeared Australia had been bluffing in the first two rounds.
“He has put so much effort in, and to get a world record as well”.
And they produced the goods again when it mattered bettering Australia, who pushed them all the way, to break the world record again the final with a blistering 3:50.265.
The pair are now unbeaten in 39 races, a run that stretches back five years.
The team pursuit squad had moved on in his absence, winning gold in London without their talisman, who focussed his attention on the road and time trial.
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They had beaten their long-time rivals Australia in a pulsating race that was agonisingly close until the final few hundred metres, and he couldn’t have been more relaxed. A gold medal Thursday in the men’s team sprint was followed Friday by Callum Skinner and reigning champion Jason Kenny both setting Olympic records in the individual event.
Ennis-Hill had the flawless start in the heptathlon, winning the 100m hurdles in 12.84 seconds, and then cleared 1.86m in the high jump.
By the roar of the crowd you’d think we’re back in London. Today we did not want to make any mistake.
The time is taken on the third rider and the Welshman clung on.
“I was thinking about how incredible it was for me in my first Olympics”.
“Brad’s getting out at 36 and I’ll be 35 then”.
They originally won the final against Germany but were relegated to second for an illegal change over.
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Cavendish, whose relationship with Wiggins is said to be increasingly estranged, was officially the reserve member of the pursuit team and as such would have been expected to attend.
