It is the same scenario as 2008 when Kenny took sprint silver behind room-mate Sir Chris Hoy.
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The stand-out day means Great Britain remains third in the medal table and has a total count of 30. Britain now have four medals in the track programme which is only into its third day – three of them gold. Becky’s just got a medal – it’s all looking really good. “You always go quicker when you’re chasing a team – I think we knew we had more in the tank”.
He added: “It’s important to make my country proud and make history”.
“I can understand in her heart that she wants her own kids as well”.
Laura Trott became the first British female to win three Olympic gold medals as Team GB’s women’s pursuit team broke the world record yet again to retain their Olympic title at Rio 2016.
She said: “I’ve never been in a team that feels so seamless”.
Hammer, a member of the American pursuit team Trott and her colleagues conquered in the Olympic final, represented the main competition here and a thrilling duel developed in the individual pursuit that followed the scratch race.
She said afterwards: “It’s just so hard to find the words to describe this”. “They came up with something that was going to put us in the best situation to try to get gold”.
By winning, Scott Durant, Tom Ransley, Andrew T Hodge, Matt Gotrel, Pete Reed, Paul Bennett, Matt Langridge, William Satch and cox Phelan Hill helped Britain top the Rowing medal table.
Del Potro, who entered the Olympic tournament unseeded but gained a huge boost of confidence by defeating world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the first round, earned his spot in the finals by narrowly defeating Spain’s Rafael Nadal.
Elis Ligtlee of the Netherlands, however, managed to deny the Brits of a second Olympic victory minutes later in the women’s keirin final, capping off quite a show for Dutch trackies in Rio Saturday; Ligtlee’s compatriot Laurine van Riessen had managed to pull off one of the most impressive bike-handling feats on the track this year in the earlier rounds to avoid a crash.
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Trott’s teammate Archibald was still waiting for the reality of being Olympic Champion to hit home.
