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It is just as I remember it, only a little bit colder. But that is why I

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was a track cyclist. Best to be indoors. The first day of London

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2012I remember realising this is what it had all been about, all the

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preparation and talk and hype had been leading towards this one day,

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this one week. It was gametime. Gold medal for Great Britain!

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The Olympic sprint champion! The noise is something everyone talks

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about, all the athletes talked about the atmosphere, it was like nothing

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else I have ever experienced in my whole career. Victoria Pendleton

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takes the gold medal. It was a bit of a blah, it was so intense and so

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big and different to anything else we had ever encountered before.

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Another world record. The more time passes you realise what an

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incredible time it was and how lucky you were to experience. My memories

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of the keirin, I'd glanced at the corner of my eye and knew I had to

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react. Chris Hoy gets the gold medal. To sign off with a gold medal

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was like nothing else. Sir Chris Hoy who has been blamed

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part of our team and admitted it is far more nerve wracking watching his

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former team-mates than it was riding with them. Welcome to the track

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World Championships, hugely enthusiastic crowds have been

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pouring in and this was billed as something of a recovery mission for

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British cycling having suffered a fairly disastrous Championships in

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Paris last year. We will show you some highlights of the week so far

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and reflect on them with the combined wisdom of Chris Boardman

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and Dame Sarah Storey. The home crowd making a huge difference and

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we will start with one of the most gruelling races of the lot, the

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men's points race over 160 laps with a sprint every ten laps for which

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the cyclists earn points. Jon Dibben was Britain's representative, he

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came here as part of the team pursuit but this was his chance to

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make his mark as an individual. He started really well and as we join

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it we are starting to get quite excited.

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COMMENTATOR: Closely fought competition, five riders. Graf is

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still half a lap ahead. If he stays out there he will be the leader in

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this competition. The leader on the track who probably feels absolutely

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awful out there, he will be copying and blowing, his legs obese grooming

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at him but he is such a good rider, so experienced, he is still in

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front, but the German in the group behind him knows this is his chance

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to get on the podium. This is the target for Graf, what he needs is to

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get the points and set up and wait for this group of four, he will have

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the advantage, needs to ride defensively once he gets himself

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into the lead which he has done. What a stupendous effort from Graf

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from Austria who takes the points on the line. The Belgian was right up

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there as well. Graf has done exactly what he

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should, leading the way on 44 points, he is in gold medal

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position. Thomas Brown into the -- gone into the silver medal position.

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Graf needs to just sit on the back and let them do the work, ride

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defensively. Going like a train, trying to rejoin the leading group,

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Jon Dibben didn't have the strength to go with him. In the blue helmet,

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you can see he is closing the gap very quickly. Jon Dibben is losing

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wheels every times he comes off the right, he is completely cooked and

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waiting for the end of the race. I don't think there is anything he can

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do to contribute, just hope it comes back together. The group in front of

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him has swelled so much it might lose cohesion. He could do with the

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crowd getting behind him in these closing laps, Jon Dibben. Just one

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point between Jon Dibben in bronze and De Ketele in fourth. Jon Dibben

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hanging on with his fingernails but he is fighting the way. As soon as

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he goes they might accelerate yet again. Thomas coming up behind him.

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I don't think they will get the chance to recover. The world scratch

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race bronze medallist from Hong Kong goes off the front, making a late

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attack with 23 laps to go. That is the kind of move which plays into

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the hands of Jon Dibben because he only has one point on the board so

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he's not a threat but he is mopping up the points which is bringing Jon

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Dibben closer and closer. Dibben moving up the track. The Hong Kong

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rider only has one point so is not a factor in the race so this is a good

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scenario from the point of view of Dibben. Dibben is going to have a

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go, he is getting into the mix, if he can do it. De Ketele following

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on. Launching the sprint into the final straight. On the line, not

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sure if he got that one and Dibben didn't quite have the turn of pace

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having done a lot of work. This is the sprint again, very, very close

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on the line. It is in the lap of the gods know, just one more sprint

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before the final bash for the line. So close, we seldom see a race with

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so many people still in contention with less than 20 laps to go. De

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Ketele has just aged Dibben off the podium by a point. -- just aged.

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Dibben outside the medals for a podium by a point. -- just aged.

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first time in a long time. Dibben Trying to inject some pace and

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first time in a long time. Dibben the speed up. But nobody is keen to

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help him out. I'm not sure if Dibben has the strength to respond. Graf

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has found his second wind, or is it his third or fourth in a race like

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this. Graf really going for it. We have not seen Graf for the last 15

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laps or so, he has been wisely taking a break so now it is time to

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ride defensively. A bit left to close these down, he knows the gold

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medal is probably two, three minutes of riding away. Superb effort from

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Graf, very canny riding and showing a lot of guts to make the breakaway

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when he did, and to stay with it. Graf, the leader, working so hard,

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crash, Thomas has gone down as has the Japanese rider, Hashimoto.

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Thomas, in the silver medal position is on the ground and shaken. The

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mechanic was there even before he stopped sliding, he has five minutes

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to get back into it, he's an experienced rider, knows he doesn't

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have to rush, take his time. Try to salvage something from the mishap.

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Graf still ploughing along. De Ketele still looking sprightly.

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Hashimoto was holding his shoulder blade as he got up. Dibben is having

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a go, he's going to try and go around the outside! De Ketele

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leading the sprint. Dibben is not having it at all, he is getting

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stuck in, he wants a medal at these World Championship and he takes the

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points on the line, what a gutsy ride from the man from Hampshire. He

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has two monitor things but he took it on, took a lap, he's going for

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the points, we think he has spent but he comes back fighting. Seconds

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now. Few moments ago he wasn't on the podium but now he's in the

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silver medal position and there are two points in it. It is still game

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on. That is a man under pressure, Graf

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from Austria. He is doing the chasing and knows there is only

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eight laps to go and he will take the title if he can keep it

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together. Just has to make sure he keeps the other favourites at bay.

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He has attacked. Graf has many skills but sprinting is not one of

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them. The Hong Kong rider has suddenly come to life, coming strong

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at the end when he is out of contention, he goes off the front

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again. Dibben stocking Graf. We will go into the last few laps. Terrible

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luck Thomas, the Frenchman who led the race along and was in the silver

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medal position he crashed. Only four points separating the first three

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riders, it could all be decided, it will all be decided on the final

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sprint, just five laps remaining. Graf following the wheel of Dibben,

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he has to find a bit more for moral lapse -- for four more laps. This is

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a tremendous ride from Thomas. Being chased down, Dibben has Graf just

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behind him. Thomas is only three points behind Dibben so dangerous

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move by the French man. He is throwing the kitchen sing at it. He

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does not have time to look behind. The crowd go mad as Dibben started

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to chase him, he is really going for it now. Closing the gap all the way

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is Jon Dibben, riding like a man possessed because he knows that the

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world title could be heads, and look at this!

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world title could be heads, and look astounding! Brilliant riding from

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Jon Dibben, the crowd are on their feet here at the velodrome, it goes

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absolutely mad, Jon Dibben of Great Britain is the world points race

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champion! What a stunning finish from the 22-year-old! Silver in the

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team per suit and no gold in the points race.

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Waddle champion, how good does that sound? -- world champion.

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Unbelievable, I came here for the team per suit. I am lost for words.

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I came into this to give it my all, dead cool down try to focus all day,

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I don't know, I rode it bike and on the whites race. -- I would like and

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only on points race. Everyone died off, that last sprint

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was full gas. That last sprint was like you were jet propelled, you

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left everybody standing. We have done a lot of power work for the

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team pursuit so I was pretty confident, I just had to wait and

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wait and hope Benjamin Thomas didn't get too big a gap and hope nobody

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comes past. The world champion Jon Dibben, we asked him to join us

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today but he is taking his mum out for lunch because it is Mother's Day

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tomorrow. Some up the magnitude of that achievement and what it will

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mean for him? It was a fascinating race to watch, he was struggling to

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hold wheels, saw the last ten laps, where that came from, I have never

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seen a sprint like that. It was as if everyone else was standing still

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seen a sprint like that. It was as and he just jumped in. Such a turn

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of this need, the team pursuit training would have given him that

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training -- turn of speed. He will give selectors real headaches for

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Brazil. This is the interesting question because Mark Cavendish is

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competing, he is doing OK, moving up the rankings, but Jon Dibben has

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made his case, that he can be part of the team per suit scored and can

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ride the Omnium. That competition is what the guys need, they thrive on

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it and they will love the idea of battling it out to try to claim the

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place for Brazil. You could see the emotion on his

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face wing in front of the home crowd. It's so special. The noise

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level went up another level went across the line and then it brought

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tears to everybody's eyes. Talking about Mark Cavendish, where he

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gained his points was in the elimination race. Thrilling, the

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last one to over the line gets knocked out each time, but he looked

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upset because he thinks he could have won it. Looks like they fired

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the gun may be a lap early. But I don't think it would have changed

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the outcome. Everybody was finished. They weren't catching Cancellara. He

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was looking forward, not backward. But Mark Cavendish is an emotional

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ride, and that's why he's so good. The very passionate, and it comes

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out, that authentic character that you see with him. Is it too early to

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make the call now? When will they decide? It will be at the end of the

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omnium. Still more to do. Not looking fantastic at the moment, he

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doesn't just need to finish strongly, he has to start winning

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events. Thursday night added to the memories this venue has produced.

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Laura Trott is already a double Olympic champion here, and has won

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five world titles. She lined up in the mass start 32 riders, 40 lap

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scratch race. The first person over the line wins.

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COMMENTATOR: This race really starting to step up now. The Russian

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has company on the far side. Company from the Hong Kong rider. The

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Belarus rider is also trying to get back into it. Laura Trott has found

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herself on the back foot. Down to the chase and everybody following

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her down. With six laps to go, I think this move has gone for good

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now. It's not coming back and I think she has found herself pinned

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down. I don't think the gap is closable. Up at the front of the

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race, Sierra is there, and they have been joined by the Russian rider and

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the Hong Kong rider. A small opportunity here because they have

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started to back off and think about the sprint a bit early at the front.

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Rolling through but with four laps to go, Laura Trott is closing the

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gap. She's given up thinking of somebody to give her a hand, she is

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cranking up, has them in her sights. She might close them down on her

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own. What a final four Lazio for the women's race in the world scratch

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title. The Cuban, the the Belarus rider, the Russian. They will get

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caught, but I think the winner will still come from that group. They

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charged behind but they still have to close the gap. Stephanie Roorda

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from Canada to close the gap. Stephanie Roorda

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every revolution of the pedals the crowd is roaring because Laura Trott

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is being drawn back into the race. How much has the effort been taken

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from her? Can she keep going? How much has the effort been taken

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has the Belgian on her wheel. Laura Trott back into the first half-dozen

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on the track as the Russian rider takes the bell. Laura Trott

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on the track as the Russian rider the hunt for gold. Stephanie Roorda

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from Canada hits the front. Here comes Laura Trott around the

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outside. The stadium gets to its feet. It's Laura Trott against

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Stephanie Roorda, and its gold for Laura Trott and Great Britain. She

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showed her fight at the front as they came in the finishing straight.

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It was perfect timing, and the perfect left for Great Britain in

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these championships. Laura Trott is a champion of the world for the

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sixth time in her career. She's an exceptional athlete and an

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amazing cyclist, and as Simon said in commentary, it gave the British

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amazing cyclist, and as Simon said team a lift. Laura had been part of

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the pursuit who looked fractured in qualifying. Laura took part of the

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blame, saying she went off to fast. There was a split that happened and

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they couldn't get the rider back on the wheel, so they only qualified

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fifth fastest so a shot at gold was gone. The secret to success in sport

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is learning from your mistakes and recovering. They did that, pulled

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themselves together in a first-round and riding a national record to get

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into the race. And they have these in their hands. You learned lessons

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and went on, and that's the crucial thing. I'm over the moon with my

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first World Championship medal. We fought the entire way. It came back

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from a disappointing qualifying round and we learned a lot of

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valuable lessons from that ride and be executed two for the good rides

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with a really good British record. Joel, -- Jo, this was your bronze

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medal race. We wanted to be the fastest qualifiers and we had senior

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American 's and we went out there to race them. We went out the wrong way

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about it. We got carried away. It's easily done, especially when you

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have the home crowd and it's an Olympic year and you want to get out

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and get on with it. In the final round, feeling in control and

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everybody rode what they were supposed to. Everybody went to plan,

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and it comes together so much easier when that happens and it feels like

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an easier ride. Is there a really important lesson there, looking

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ahead to Rio. The adrenaline can't get to you in qualifying. I think

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so. We stand by the decision to go out and race and try to be the

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fastest qualifiers, but you could go out too fast. The golden rule of

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pursuit is about judgment, not starting to fast in the first

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kilometre. If anything, that getting carried away, it was a sign of what

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good form we were in. The sort of splits we were doing in the first

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kilometre, we hadn't seen those times in training even. We had that

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form to go that fast, just not hold it together for as long as we wanted

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to. A really valuable experience for you and the whole team. Is it

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frustrating or exciting that in the medal races you posted a faster time

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than the gold medallists, the USA? It's a combination. Hats off to

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them, they qualified fastest and executed a good, controlled ride

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when they needed to. We learned that lesson the hard way. It shows that

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we are right in the mix with them, having posted the fastest time in

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the final. It's all to play for, Rio. What happens in the next five

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months? We have a week off, a few days to enjoy ourselves. A little

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bit of a holiday. Then it's back to training from next weekend. Five

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months until Rio, so a lot of hard work and miles on the bike, gym

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work, Miles on the track, and a lot of hard work to get to the podium in

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a few months' time. You all work hard and are all extraordinary,

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Laura Trott. Her schedule, she was in the team pursuit with you, she

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won the scratch race. She now competes in the Army. She has three

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events today and three tomorrow. This is what she has done already up

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until Saturday. -- in the omnium. She's extraordinary, and she's

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really nice! It's a hard programme for her, but she has worked that

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kind of programme regularly. She's used to it. Her will to win is

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astonishing, Laura Trott. She rose to stardom in London 2012. Tim Ward

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went off for a ride with her and team-mate Emily Nelson, to see what

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makes it tick. Good morning, please to meet you,

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I'm Tim. Good morning for this? It's a bit fresh. We are going to go

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towards Wilmslow and Chalford and back. I have forgotten or my cycling

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gear. It wasn't dry, I use it so much that it was still wet and in

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the tumble dryer! I will just have to get the car. You can go out and

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have fun. # This girl is on fire...

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# She's walking on fire... I'm certainly no performance coach,

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but I will say that looked quite easy for you two. Pretty much.

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Yesterday was a rest day, so it's good to get out in the fresh air and

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spin your legs back. Pretty easy, yeah. You must come across like a

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lot of people when you are out on the road. Do they sometimes have a

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second glance and think, it's Laura Trott next to me! You do get that.

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There was a guy the other day, there was a headwind riding home and I sat

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on his wheel. He said, I can't race you! View was doing me a favour.

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Just keep going. This morning was a training ride. I guess you would

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have watched this girl on the TV at the Olympics? Isn't that pretty mad?

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A bit starstruck sat here! I used to be. Still am a little bit, but not

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the same now, it's a bit different. Since 2012, my statistics and my

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googling has told me you have never been off the podium in the team

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pursuit or the omnium. How do you keep that up? I didn't know that

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statistic myself! I don't know. I hope it's correct! You have made me

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question it now. I will rephrase the question... You are well good! How

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do you keep that consistency? My coach, we have a great relationship,

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and I would trust Paul with my life. He just seems to get it right. I

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don't tend to question anything. I just trust him to get it right and I

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guess that goes along way. How did it all start for you? It was thanks

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to my mum. She lost eight and a half stone in a year and a half by riding

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and going to spinning classes. It was the fact she chose bike riding.

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One of the other mums suggested to go down too well in Guardian citizen

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and the Velodrome National -- Welwyn Garden City. The quite good phase

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came later. Was your dad telling you to slow down? We used to go to and

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do the track meet on the Friday night. I just started so I was in

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the second group. The top group was on a handicap. We had to catch them

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up. Ireland is somebody pushing me off, a big man, he pushed me and I

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went flying. I didn't have to pedal after that. Ireland winning, and at

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the time I got ?3 for winning the race. -- I ended up winning. It was

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the first race that I won that meant anything. It took off from there.

:27:59.:28:03.

What's it like living with another cyclist? I married him, so I guess

:28:04.:28:09.

I've got to get on with him! At its good. I couldn't imagine not hating

:28:10.:28:14.

another cyclist. Just because he gets it, he understands what I go

:28:15.:28:23.

through. -- not dating. Do you help each other and give each of

:28:24.:28:34.

constructive criticism? Try to? He says I don't do anything at home,

:28:35.:28:40.

but actually, I do everything. We try to do stuff 50-50. Recently he

:28:41.:28:44.

doesn't do the washing up because he has a cut on his hand. I asked him

:28:45.:28:49.

to at least do the hoovering, swap some responsibilities. They do

:28:50.:28:54.

rubber gloves in extra large. I will say that when I get home. If you win

:28:55.:29:01.

gold in Rio, you become the most successful British Olympian of all

:29:02.:29:04.

time. That's pretty good, isn't it? Yeah. Just to keep that pressure on

:29:05.:29:12.

your shoulders. Do you think about things like that? Not really. It

:29:13.:29:16.

sounds weird when you say it to me. When I was growing up I didn't think

:29:17.:29:21.

I would go to London, so to win gold medals there, and is now to be able

:29:22.:29:25.

to achieve that, it's weird to me. I never thought it would be me who

:29:26.:29:26.

could maybe do that. Laura Trott, revealing an awful lot

:29:27.:29:37.

about her training, her will to win, her relationship with Jason Kenny,

:29:38.:29:41.

and her mother, losing eight and a half stone cycling. Personally, I

:29:42.:29:45.

focused on the housework. I can imagine that battle. Do you do any

:29:46.:29:54.

at home, Chris? No. Laura Trott, she's incredible. She talks about it

:29:55.:30:00.

like it's happening by accident. I remember her first senior event in

:30:01.:30:08.

Delhi in 2010. She had come off the junior Championships that summer,

:30:09.:30:10.

didn't really know what to expect. She just had an amazing time and

:30:11.:30:14.

that was the start. The following year she was in the team pursuit and

:30:15.:30:19.

it took off from there. She was in the omnium challenge this morning

:30:20.:30:22.

and finished third in the scratch racing. It's a great start. She had

:30:23.:30:29.

her big rivals finishing behind, in Serra hammer. It bodes well for the

:30:30.:30:38.

rest of the event. How is it that riders can take on so much at the

:30:39.:30:43.

championships? The key was in the interview. She doesn't think about

:30:44.:30:47.

championships? The key was in the the end result, she thinks about the

:30:48.:30:47.

process. We hear about that a the end result, she thinks about the

:30:48.:30:51.

and it sounds like a clean-shaven she thinks about the job. In that

:30:52.:30:56.

way you don't get overwhelmed. -- sounds like a cliche. She's very

:30:57.:31:03.

good at looking at the tactics in front of her right now, the next two

:31:04.:31:06.

seconds in the race or the next training session, and it's an

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effective way of dealing with this environment. Don't make the problem

:31:10.:31:13.

bigger than it needs to be. And the other thing Laura Trott has, she's

:31:14.:31:17.

not a massive person but she is an aerodynamic and crouches like a

:31:18.:31:21.

jockey, making a shape over the bike. It's not all about power.

:31:22.:31:25.

Being aerodynamic is the key to success in cycling.

:31:26.:31:35.

Aerodynamics has historically been cycling 's elephant in the room. It

:31:36.:31:40.

is hard to stay focused on something you cannot see, feel or directly

:31:41.:31:45.

measure. Or at least you cannot until you come to a place like this.

:31:46.:31:50.

So what kind of changes will affect performance and by how much? Up

:31:51.:31:56.

until the 1980s the emphasis was on weight saving and with the arrival

:31:57.:32:00.

of carbon fibre came the opportunity to reduce mass to ridiculous levels.

:32:01.:32:06.

When the pioneering few realised aerodynamics was more important

:32:07.:32:09.

superlight but boxy bike forms morphed into slippery wing sections.

:32:10.:32:17.

It was when attention was turned away from the machine that things

:32:18.:32:23.

got really interesting. Turbulence in juicing holes in a helmet whilst

:32:24.:32:27.

good for a cooling work creating a lot of resistance so they were

:32:28.:32:31.

filled in and smoothed over. Figure hugging 1-piece garments are now

:32:32.:32:38.

standard even for a long road races. Without the ability to measure air

:32:39.:32:42.

resistance for years positional choices where arrived at by feeling.

:32:43.:32:52.

With the extra information they could weigh up the pros and cons of

:32:53.:32:57.

being more compact, and understand the payoff for being uncomfortable

:32:58.:33:03.

could be world the price. Knowledge is power so it is not surprisingly

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individuals and teams who have invested in understanding this are

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the ones currently out in front. In my opinion there is plenty more

:33:13.:33:15.

marginal gains still to be discovered.

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Fascinating. I'm quite excited about the marginal gains still to be

:33:20.:33:26.

discovered. I could tell you but I'd have to kill you! Those places are a

:33:27.:33:33.

nightmare, I went in thinking I would get some cancers, I came out

:33:34.:33:37.

ten years later with some cancers but even more questions. -- would

:33:38.:33:38.

get some answers. It is fascinating. If there was a time when it seemed

:33:39.:33:50.

like Great Britain and Australia were ahead of everyone else, is it a

:33:51.:33:55.

case everyone is level or do Britain still have an advantage? We will

:33:56.:34:01.

find out in Brazil but I think we will still have an advantage. The

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rest of the world has caught up, I was made when we got to 2012, -- I

:34:06.:34:11.

was amazed, they had all polished what we were still doing and since

:34:12.:34:15.

then the have really got their heads around it, you can see it in the

:34:16.:34:19.

positioning, the subtle changes, someone has been thinking about

:34:20.:34:24.

this. A lot of scientific work going into prepare the men's team pursuit,

:34:25.:34:28.

when you see them riding well it looks like all four of them are

:34:29.:34:33.

riding as one unit, sire Bradley Wiggins is the star if you are but

:34:34.:34:37.

everyone has to play their part, and it was an interesting line-up when

:34:38.:34:41.

it came to the gold medal race which Great Britain were up against

:34:42.:34:45.

Australia, and age old rivalry, a young talented Australian team, it

:34:46.:34:50.

almost took the roof of this place. COMMENTATOR: Britain finding it hard

:34:51.:35:00.

to take a bike out of the lead as Ed Clancy goes to the front again. Has

:35:01.:35:05.

just pulled back almost half a second in a single turn. It will all

:35:06.:35:10.

come down to the closing stages of the race. 0.3 of a second between

:35:11.:35:20.

the teams, absolutely nothing. The endurance of Bradley with an all

:35:21.:35:23.

come into play in the last part of the race. Great Britain are honour

:35:24.:35:32.

roll. Jon Dibben comes off the front, down to a final free. It is

:35:33.:35:38.

back up to 0.4 of a second, less than half a second in this

:35:39.:35:42.

concentration, Great Britain against us joy. -- against Australia. The

:35:43.:35:53.

Australians have got the extra man and that can make a difference but

:35:54.:35:57.

the British are on home turf and still fighting. Three laps to go,

:35:58.:36:05.

the gap has come down again, three laps in the race for gold in the

:36:06.:36:13.

men's team pursuit. Bradley Wiggins on the front. Who wants it more, the

:36:14.:36:19.

crowd are on their feet here in the velodrome in London. It will require

:36:20.:36:24.

a big effort, the British trio will have two dead, really deep to try

:36:25.:36:29.

and overhaul the lead Australia have had all the way through. Great

:36:30.:36:36.

Britain for the first time have their noses in front. So close but

:36:37.:36:40.

Britain leading the way in the race for gold in the team pursuit. It

:36:41.:36:46.

will be tight at the end, Britain have lost it right at the end.

:36:47.:36:54.

Australia claim the gold-medal. Great Britain were racing on the

:36:55.:36:58.

edge and just tipped over on the very last lap. But they gave

:36:59.:37:04.

everything and a little bit more in pursuit of that world title. It is

:37:05.:37:12.

Australia who win the day. A silver medal and a strong performance but

:37:13.:37:15.

not the top step of the podium which is what you were gunning for, what

:37:16.:37:22.

is your collection on that? You have summed it up yourself, we are in the

:37:23.:37:28.

ballpark, we have a great chance in Brazil. In the past two cycles we

:37:29.:37:34.

have always gone quicker at the games. It's great to be back on a

:37:35.:37:41.

bike for me personally but for the team it is disappointing to lose out

:37:42.:37:47.

at the last moment, maybe next time? Not much between the teams, the fact

:37:48.:37:51.

that there are six of you collecting medals shows we have some strength,

:37:52.:37:57.

can you make the instrumental gains? Definitely, I will put my house on

:37:58.:38:03.

it, we will win in Brazil. I am confident and I think we will. We

:38:04.:38:09.

have come so far here. Individually, we all work at our efforts, where I

:38:10.:38:14.

was at Christmas compared to now, coming on leaps and bounds. Into the

:38:15.:38:18.

summer now, we can move on again for Brazil. Watching that with me, the

:38:19.:38:26.

confidence of Bradley Wiggins, how much of that is real and how much is

:38:27.:38:31.

mind games? Probably a little bit of mind games but they know within

:38:32.:38:36.

themselves, Ed Clancy came to this very late, only had back surgery in

:38:37.:38:41.

December and was learning to walk around Christmas. Everything came

:38:42.:38:44.

fast for him and he was the rider who was a bit off the back when they

:38:45.:38:49.

were fanning out to the three. They also lost a rider with about a

:38:50.:38:52.

kilometre to go. They will know where they need to polish things up

:38:53.:38:59.

and they will be able to qualify -- quantify that. Can you see that they

:39:00.:39:09.

can make the changes? Yes, but the Australians also have more to come.

:39:10.:39:17.

I think it will be very, very close. Ed Clancy three months ago was being

:39:18.:39:21.

stretchered from a track in a van because he could not sit upright.

:39:22.:39:27.

Plenty more to come, great to see. I felt for Ed Clancy, but they manage

:39:28.:39:34.

the situation well and that was important. It was a risk putting Ed

:39:35.:39:40.

Clancy into the final but he is so almost there I guess it was a risk

:39:41.:39:45.

they had to take. Some things you only find out in race conditions

:39:46.:39:48.

when you are under pressure, that is what they had been missing, and they

:39:49.:39:52.

have got that information here and I think it looks good. It was close

:39:53.:39:58.

enough that they could have won. Andy Tennant missed out because of

:39:59.:40:01.

the decision and he was in the bronze race for the individual

:40:02.:40:07.

pursuit, up against his team-mate Wayne Gould. This is what happened.

:40:08.:40:17.

-- Owain Doull. COMMENTATOR: Approaching the last

:40:18.:40:30.

minute of racing, it could come down to who can go and Robert and really

:40:31.:40:36.

push it. What a final couple of laps we are going to have in this battle

:40:37.:40:41.

for bronze between the British duo, Andy Tennant leading the way at the

:40:42.:40:45.

moment but it is extremely close between Andy Tennant and Owain

:40:46.:40:51.

Doull. England against Wales, Owain Doull has a lot to do, has to find

:40:52.:40:55.

half a second from somewhere in the last lap. Andy Tennant still looks

:40:56.:41:02.

good, still look strong but Owain Doull is a scrapper, he is a fighter

:41:03.:41:07.

and will push it all the way. In the end it has gone to... Andy Tennant!

:41:08.:41:25.

Andy Tennant takes it, roughly at attend the second between them. What

:41:26.:41:30.

a race did was. -- a 10th of a second.

:41:31.:41:34.

Those guys are pushing each other all the way and coming Brazil

:41:35.:41:40.

selection it will be the fastest five guys who get to go to the team

:41:41.:41:41.

pursuit and the on omnium. I am not sure, Mark Cavendish is

:41:42.:42:05.

capable of performing in this event but it takes a long time to get up

:42:06.:42:10.

to track speed and I am not sure that time is on his side. Good

:42:11.:42:15.

effort but perhaps not good enough, two more events to come for Mark

:42:16.:42:20.

Cavendish. Let's go back to the first day of competition, all hearts

:42:21.:42:24.

with Becky James who has had a long road back to fitness after illness

:42:25.:42:28.

and injury. She was the star of the show three years ago so hearts were

:42:29.:42:34.

very much with her when she rang up in the key ring. -- when she lined

:42:35.:42:39.

up in the keirin. COMMENTATOR: Anna Meares will want

:42:40.:43:02.

to move from the back position. I think she will do that in the next

:43:03.:43:06.

lap or soul as they start to jockey for position.

:43:07.:43:14.

Just over a lap to go now before the race begins. Tension builds with

:43:15.:43:25.

every passing a lap, the calm before the storm in the women's final. Just

:43:26.:43:33.

starting to look back and think tactically now. But Becky James in a

:43:34.:43:39.

beautiful possession but she will have to defend it, boxed in at the

:43:40.:43:45.

moment. The bike disappears, two and a half laps to go. Anna Meares has

:43:46.:43:52.

been assertive. The Korean on the shoulder of Anna Meares. Becky James

:43:53.:44:00.

bringing up the rear at the moment, with work to do, they will take the

:44:01.:44:02.

bell next time around. Anna Meares in the middle of the

:44:03.:44:14.

track with the green helmet, but it is still Christina Vogel leading

:44:15.:44:17.

from the front and trying to stay, Becky James coming through to get a

:44:18.:44:23.

medal. Christina Vogel takes the gold ahead of Anna Meares and it is

:44:24.:44:27.

a bronze medal for Becky James of Great Britain.

:44:28.:44:30.

That lifted the whole team, they had missed Becky James. They had, she is

:44:31.:44:39.

a bubbly character, so lovely to have around. To have her back and

:44:40.:44:45.

firing on almost also wonders was brilliant. Everyone was there to

:44:46.:44:49.

congratulate her after. Missing her so much, she could not play a full

:44:50.:44:53.

part in the team sprint qualification so the women's team

:44:54.:44:57.

have not qualified for the Olympics. I think she is one of the casualties

:44:58.:45:03.

of them not quite making the grade to get the selection because she

:45:04.:45:07.

could have made the difference. She has time, she has performed better

:45:08.:45:11.

than she expected here so she would have slotted in and the whole unit

:45:12.:45:15.

probably would have been faster. But that is the way it goes. Quick

:45:16.:45:20.

mention of road racing, big news for Lizzie Armitstead this morning. Yes,

:45:21.:45:26.

also for Nikki Harris, coming back off of the season and is now in

:45:27.:45:35.

Lizzie Armitstead's team, the first women's World Tour road event of the

:45:36.:45:39.

year ever, absolutely amazing for Lizzie Armitstead. Fantastic.

:45:40.:45:45.

Tonight we will see the medals decided in the men's sprint,

:45:46.:45:48.

hopefully Jason Kenny day will have a chance -- Jason Kenny.

:45:49.:45:54.

Being aerodynamic is the key to success in cycling.

:45:55.:45:57.

Dawkins gave him a lot of rope in this race. It could have been a

:45:58.:46:06.

tactical mistake. But Callum Skinner did fantastic to beat quality

:46:07.:46:10.

opposition. He beat Gregory Bauge, the defending champion and one of

:46:11.:46:15.

the biggest names in sprinting. It was a real scalp for him. He can be

:46:16.:46:20.

very proud of his ride. Did very well and kept the Frenchman guessing

:46:21.:46:24.

all the way. Kept a bit extra for the final acceleration down the back

:46:25.:46:28.

straight and Bauge couldn't get back on terms in time. It was a real

:46:29.:46:34.

boost for the sprint squad. They still have rounds to come, but

:46:35.:46:38.

hopefully one of them will be in a gold medal race. Hopefully Callum

:46:39.:46:42.

Skinner will be there too. Closing the event tomorrow will be the

:46:43.:46:45.

Madison where you have two riders who need to understand each other.

:46:46.:46:50.

They need to literally hold each other's hands. Representing Great

:46:51.:46:53.

Britain will be served Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish. A good

:46:54.:46:58.

thing they have known each other a long time and know each other well.

:46:59.:47:02.

Good the Blacks without referring to good musicians. Jedward. They are

:47:03.:47:16.

musicians. Are they? Cheers lad. Can't do impressions. He's a dancer.

:47:17.:47:22.

He could be the fat one. We have always got on and share the

:47:23.:47:36.

same sense of humour, which is always a good starting point. I

:47:37.:47:42.

always remember back to when Mark was on the Academy. I always treated

:47:43.:47:46.

him with respect, even back then. That goes along way in how you form

:47:47.:47:50.

opinions of each other when you get older. You never forget when you are

:47:51.:48:04.

how people treat you. We were in Colne near Blackburn, and I was

:48:05.:48:07.

pro-then, came second and won a box of energy gel will stop Mark was 19

:48:08.:48:14.

at the time and I gave them to him because I got them for nothing. He

:48:15.:48:19.

was so happy, cheers, lad. We have to buy these ourselves! He's never

:48:20.:48:23.

forgotten that. Things like that go a long way, and even the year after

:48:24.:48:28.

that, we did the national championships. I led him out. I

:48:29.:48:36.

thought it would be nice to see him, and it meant a lot for him to win a

:48:37.:48:40.

national title at that age. Three years later we were on the same team

:48:41.:48:44.

together, racing round Italy together, the World Championships.

:48:45.:48:50.

Brad won the Tour, and one of the proudest moments of my career was

:48:51.:48:53.

coming up the Champs-Elysees with him. He won the yellow jersey, and

:48:54.:49:00.

then the World Championships on the road. It would be nice to tell my

:49:01.:49:05.

son in the years to come that I was there when Cav won his first chavvy

:49:06.:49:11.

chips, Copenhagen, the first British world title since Tommy Simpsons. It

:49:12.:49:15.

was special for all of us there. Riding at the front. The road race

:49:16.:49:20.

at the Olympics in London. The Champs-Elysees moment will never

:49:21.:49:24.

happen again, ever. I would put my name to that. When are you ever

:49:25.:49:29.

going to get a British rider in the yellow jersey at the Tour de France,

:49:30.:49:35.

leading out the British world road race champion, who wins on the

:49:36.:49:37.

Champs-Elysees? All those things coming together for that to happen.

:49:38.:49:45.

A British world road champion, a British leader and winner of the

:49:46.:49:48.

Tour, then somebody who can win on the Champs-Elysees as well. Those

:49:49.:49:52.

things are one office. We have been through a lot. Those things bind you

:49:53.:50:00.

together. -- one offs and everyone else sharing with you, you share

:50:01.:50:06.

those road experiences. For all of us at Copenhagen in the worlds, we

:50:07.:50:12.

will remember it, we had that game plan and we all executed. Even the

:50:13.:50:16.

Olympic road race, we didn't win, but we put our heart and soul into

:50:17.:50:20.

it. You were the strongest man in the group. It's those experiences.

:50:21.:50:25.

We fall out at times, we are like brothers. There was a time when you

:50:26.:50:32.

were in a strop on Tour in 2009. We had to chase somebody down. Was that

:50:33.:50:42.

you? (BLEEP) we didn't talk the next day. Did you chasing? No. It was my

:50:43.:50:51.

swansong on the track at the World Championships. To do an Olympic year

:50:52.:50:58.

in London, it would be my last World Track Championships, but my first

:50:59.:51:03.

was 18 years ago. Not a bad run. I don't think I've ever seen you?

:51:04.:51:08.

Nobody has, it you dissed this appear. -- you just disappear.

:51:09.:51:15.

How important are they in terms of their status? They reach outside the

:51:16.:51:23.

sport and the bubble Kuster I have used the word before. -- bobble? You

:51:24.:51:32.

get some real character and we like to see it. You never know what you

:51:33.:51:37.

will get, particularly with Bradley. When you put them together it's a

:51:38.:51:40.

double act, so it's ironic they write the Madison together. They won

:51:41.:51:47.

the World Championships in 2008 in Manchester, but I remember being in

:51:48.:51:49.

the velodrome at Beijing where it didn't go well for them. They didn't

:51:50.:51:54.

deal with that well. Cav was very emotional about it afterwards. He

:51:55.:51:58.

had committed to that one event but Bradley had other irons in the fire.

:51:59.:52:02.

That's the nature of their relationship. It's a bit like a

:52:03.:52:12.

marriage without sex. You went expecting that to come out! Hugh

:52:13.:52:17.

Dennis, you love your cycling. You will be taking part in some of it

:52:18.:52:21.

for Sport Relief. Before I ask you about that, what's the appeal of

:52:22.:52:26.

Radley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish? Have they influenced your decision

:52:27.:52:31.

to want to try this? I think they are both fantastic, actually. I was

:52:32.:52:38.

watching the coverage yesterday, watching Bradley Wiggins, and I

:52:39.:52:42.

thought, who is the most tattooed sportsmen in Britain, and it's

:52:43.:52:46.

probably Radley Wiggins. He's fantastic. He's a rock star on a

:52:47.:52:52.

bike. You have done something I think is very brave. Explain. I'm

:52:53.:52:57.

doing the Sport Relief elimination race here, round this lot. Chris

:52:58.:53:06.

Boardman's face! LAUGHTER There are only six of us doing it.

:53:07.:53:10.

Not as hard as the one we saw yesterday. The other five? Team

:53:11.:53:19.

Redgrave. Steve Redgrave, me and Dan Snow, the historian. Hard for him to

:53:20.:53:24.

the aerodynamic because he's so tall. But he can bounce people out

:53:25.:53:31.

of the way. And then Freddie Flintoff, Harry Dunn, and Mark

:53:32.:53:37.

Wright from the only way is Essex. I think I might be a laminated first.

:53:38.:53:42.

I think Harry Dunn and Freddie Flintoff have a combined age of 70.

:53:43.:53:47.

Me and Steve Redgrave, combined age of 107. Do we still have the

:53:48.:53:53.

muscles? What you have the experience. Let's see you in

:53:54.:53:58.

training. Chris, SS this. Look at the balance. -- assess. You are low,

:53:59.:54:08.

aerodynamic, going in the right direction. How difficult is it to

:54:09.:54:12.

ride on the track? I've never done it before until filming. When you

:54:13.:54:18.

start you feel like you are going around the inside of a Bath. Good

:54:19.:54:25.

description. You think if you get fast enough you will be OK and won't

:54:26.:54:30.

fall off the wall of death. In the end, you are fine, whizzing around

:54:31.:54:34.

and not thinking about it. It will be in front of an audience, we hope.

:54:35.:54:39.

You can get tickets, if you would like to see this extraordinary

:54:40.:54:42.

elimination race. Go to the BBC sport website, the Sport Relief

:54:43.:54:49.

section, and you can get details of how to get tickets. It would be

:54:50.:54:52.

sensational. People should come and support. The speed involved will be

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quite astonishing! Chris, with all your wisdom and experience and

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knowledge of track site, what's your advice to Hugh Dennis? The key is,

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if you find yourself scared, don't close your eyes. He said before, go

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straight, turn left, goes straight, turn left, until somebody says stop.

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That's all you need to know. If you fall off, get back on and get on the

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race. There was the Dutchman last night. Proper hard men. Keeping you

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up-to-date on the time trial. Mark Cavendish has been in action. He's

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seventh after four events. Chris Boardman, two events to go. What are

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the chances of him winning a medal? 38 point gap to the leader, that's a

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fair old job. But the way it's weighted in the points race, you can

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get 20 points in one hit. It could all go down to the last lap. All the

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riders can be defensive. It's a challenge, still doable, but a

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challenge. He has the flying lap next. Should be good for him. He's a

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spent athlete, so should be good for Mark Cavendish. -- sprint athlete.

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This championship is something of a recovery for British cycling.

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Britain are at the top of the medal table, mission almost complete. We

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have to remember they are not in Olympic disciplines, but the form is

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there and they are competitive in everything. We keep talking about

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Rio, but they are in good shape for Rio, and they can make the jump.

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We've had the big confidence boost here, but they still have to do more

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to win. Who is the start of the show so far? I think Owain Doull really

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proved himself to be one of the riders who will be there for the

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future. He really helped them. Him and Bradley were the main men. We

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will be on air from 7pm on the red button. If you join us then you will

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see Laura Trott starting her omnium challenge and Mark Cavendish

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finishing his. Sprint medals being decided with Jason Kenny, and Emily

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Nelson as well. 2pm tomorrow for the final session which includes Bradley

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Wiggins and Mark Cavendish in the Madison. More sport coming up on the

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BBC with Great Britain against Japan in the doubles rubber in the Davis

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Cup. 1-1 at the moment with Great Britain defending their Davis Cup

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title. And triathlon, the first cup edition of the season with Helen

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Jenkins and trying to claim a spot on the British team from 1pm. We

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will hear more from Chris Boardman later. Join us on the red button

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from 7pm for more brilliant cycling to come.

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