Sarah Hammer of the United States sprinted to claim a fourth Olympic silver and D’Hoore had to settle for bronze.
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The tally is as many as they won in Beijing in 2008, but the 50 medals Britain have won overall is now their highest ever tally at an oversees Olympics.
“I turned up in a amusing mood, I was happy, I don’t know what was wrong today”, he told the BBC.
And when she was part of the women’s sprint team that failed to qualify for Rio at the world championships back in the Spring, she must have felt her Olympic dream was over.
“I am just so happy that it all came together – I can’t thank everyone at home enough”.
British sprint star Jason Kenny, who won his sixth Olympic gold on Tuesday in the keirin, admitted that he feels “frustrated” at the single-minded Games focus.
But he made it a remarkable hat-trick on the same night as fiance Laura Trott rode her way into the history books with her own golden ride.
Trott, who also helped to defend world-record breaking Team GB’s team pursuit crown last week, came into day two of the omnium boasting an eight-point advantage over Jolien D’Hoore of Belgium after finishing second in the scratch race and winning both the individual pursuit and the elimination race.
We got it right in Beijing, we got it right in London and they stuck to the same pattern and they got it right again for Rio, which is absolutely fantastic.
Earlier on Tuesday evening, gymnast Amy Tinkler added to Britain’s trophy cabinet by taking bronze in the women’s floor exercise final. “I think really for other nations and other competitors they should really put that energy into looking at their own performances and asking themselves why aren’t they better and thinking about how they might want to catch up instead of questioning the performances of British athletes”.
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And Nile Wilson added to the British trophy cabinet by scooping bronze in the men’s gymnastics horizontal bar.
