As the 24-year-old ticked off the 100 laps without incident, picking up early sprint points for insurance, the real battle was for silver between American veteran Sarah Hammer and Belgium’s Jolien D’Hoore.
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One of those chances duly delivered another medal when diver Jack Laugher added silver in the 3m individual springboard to the gold he won with Chris Mears in the synchronised event, bringing up Team GB’s half century.
“It’s just that it seems that they don’t train for three years, and then they start and at every Olympic Games they kill every nation!” It’s insane are we are wondering and we just want to know what they are doing.
And as if that wasn’t already enough, it came on the same day that fiancee Laura Trott became Britain’s most successful female Olympian after she picked up her fourth Olympic gold with victory in the omnium.
And can Laura Trott continue her sensational form in the omnium?
“I think they are doing it right”, Vogel said.
“You realise how everything was good, the form you had, during the Olympics”.
UK Sport has invested around £274million into Olympic sports over the past four years and its chair Rod Carr said: ” Our National Lottery and Government-backed athletes have worked so hard for many years to compete here in Rio, and to collectively achieve a historic best ever away Games medal haul with five days still to go is a fitting accolade for this special team. The second time, again no riders were disqualified.
Becky James and Katy Marchant continue their sprint campaign – both through to the quarter-finals without being tested so far.
“Just to win an Olympic title is fantastic”. “That’s her specialty. the points races”, Hammer said.
When asked about the 10 golds in his household, he replied: “Not bad is it?”
RIO DE JANEIRO Jason Kenny, Britain’s new track cycling king, was looking forward to something a little more sedate after his golden rides during a fast and furious week at the Olympic velodrome. “I was just floating through it”, Kenny said.
After an embarrassing showing at the 1996 Atlanta Games, where Team GB failed to win a single track cycling medal, the country began funneling proceeds from its national lottery into the program.
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“We live in the middle of nowhere so it suits me down to the ground”.
