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at's! Here they come, up to the line! Are, look at the time! It is

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a new world record! And Great Britain have won the gold medal! A

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faultless display there. They have beaten the Australians emphatically.

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Australia get the silver, and already, the celebrations are

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beginning to unfold. What a rider that was. Not a lot more you can

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ask. A gold medal and a world record, in the final in London. But

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today we are going to remember for that was something special.

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they have taken almost a second off the previous mark. Staggering.

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did rejig the tactics after the first round. AA great job. We have

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to protect Peter a bit more. Super, super strong in this competition.

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Darren Thomas, given the option in the last kilometre or -- deride it

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Thomas. Lagat the celebrations. -- looked at the celebrations. Look at

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the applause a growing around here, or round the arena. Thomas was in

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the team in Beijing, now he wins the Gold Medal again. Ed Clancy was

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also in the squad. They also are members of the winning team. That

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may once again confirm, Great Britain have won the gold medal,

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they are Olympic champions. As the Australians looked dejected,

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it is pure delight and relief for Great Britain. I would expect it

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they might have heard that roar in Manchester at the British Cycling

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Centre! That was incredible. It was the most incredible noise I have

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heard. They broke her own world record, they are dominant, they are

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the 2012 Olympic champions, and did you join us on BBC2 shortly, they

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will get there will earn two gold medals. Congratulations to the

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We have got to get our breath back after that. I knew it was going to

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be something special. But here is a chance to look at a few images of

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the British quartet. Such a well- drilled unit, all the numbers have

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been crunched in the dunes, all the technique perfected, and the final

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training in in Newport, it has all come to fruition. Also, there have

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got to be no egos, I said that several times, it is not about

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doing equal terms, licking the strongest, it takes a lot of

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courage to back off, very important that they do all that they can, not

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the same as everybody else. Thomas missed out on a spot, it could have

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been guaranteed in that Tour de France team, just to concentrate on

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that event. Fantastic to see him get this reward. This possibly

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going to be his last appearance, he wants to concentrate on the road.

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What a way to go out. The Australians have to be happy,

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because they couldn't have done any more today, they rode their hearts

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out. They certainly did. Joanna Rowsell, she is the leader her

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rider as we look at all the biter of a competition, and that is

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You are going off to your medal ceremony, but congratulations, how

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does it feel? Absolutely amazing, it is a team event, but we have to

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take our hats off, they read absolutely amazing. Congratulations,

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a double Olympic champion, I know you are under pressure to go and

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collect a gold, we don't want you to miss that, but tell us about

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that performance? That has been a lot of hard work. Yes, the amount

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of work we have had to put in. In November, we all at the track at

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7:30am, they stopped us going to a concert in November, they have been

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on our backs since then, it has been full on, to finish it off has

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been amazing. I was ill last week, mentally it has been really hard,

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without these boys, we couldn't have done it. The crowds, it was

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just unbelievable. My ears are ringing, it is too loud! Go and

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I think that is the only man in the hall of the Velodrome is thought

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that was too loud. What a remarkable moment for British

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cycling. I am lost for words. to it. You have got to rewind the

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clock, 2003, 2005, I'm talking today Brailsford every year, and

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every year it gets better. Four years ago I thought we would get

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some golds, he is amazing, whatever he is doing, it is just amazing. He

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is producing and producing. Once you create that momentum and that

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belief within the team, they have got the support staff around them,

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the management around it, even the young kids, we had two beginners in

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there, feeding off the senior guys in that team with that belief a. It

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You have got people on the track feeding from what you are doing on

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the road, and people on the road like you are feeding off from what

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people like Chris Hoy and Ed Clancy are doing on the track, it is like

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British cycling is so buoyant! Absolutely. It is just a knock on,

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not on, not on, you keep having to raise the bar, you cannot sit on

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one level. You have to keep pushing, keep pushing, keep getting the

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standards higher. You have both been involved in British Cycling in

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the Dave Brailsford era. These kinds of performances are not by

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luck. No, it is not, it is a lot of hard work. That is where I got my

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biggest improvements, at the end of my career. You break down the nuts

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and bolts of your life, you look at nutrition and dressed and every

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ounce of training and you try to improve all of those little

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elements -- nutrition and sleep. Everyone is perfecting everything.

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They are coming up with advances and technology as well, advances in

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coaching techniques which is moving us along. It was not that many

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years ago you would have gone below four in a pursuit, and look at it

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now, 3.5! I am not going to guess how it will be in the future, let's

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just keep getting better. If you were watching it and thinking, I

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was excited but surely Mark Cavendish, Sports Personality of

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the Year, who has won stages from the Tour de France, surely he did

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not get excited. Trust me, he was on his feet and shouting at the top

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of his voice. You were so impressed with Ed Clancy. Incredible, in the

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last kilometre. Like Peter Kennaugh said before, Steven Burke and Ed

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Clancy, they were all there to the last 500m. They were so it drilled

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tonight, they looked release moves. Ed Clancy is the most experienced,

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probably the best in the team pursuit in the world. Steven Burke

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missed out in Beijing and it is an incredible ride and I am super,

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super proud of them. Australia obviously lost a man at this point,

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but Great Britain making it look easy. Take us inside the body of a

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rider. Explain how much it would have been hurting. The first time

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it feels kind of easy. It is an event where you don't look for the

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effort, the effort comes to you and it can continue in a moment or

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gradually eased into you. You feel it in the last kilometres. I am

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sure with the crowd, you will feel that a lot less today because they

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were incredible. They only lost a man in the last 500m and held it,

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they held the world record the whole way through, bang on. It

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shows how a dedicated they have been this year. It shows had

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dedicated the coach has been. They have got it absolutely spot on

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perfect. As you walk into this corner of the velodrome, there is a

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huge banner that says "inspired a generation" and it is these

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performances that are doing just that. Absolutely. When I was

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grubbing up looking at Steve Reed Drake and Daley Thompson -- Steve

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Redgrave. And now it is cycling. I never would have thought that. I

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hope it produces more cyclists in the future. At home, you might see

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these guys are achieving this excess but we still need in flux

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and people coming in. Get on your bike, basically! You could be

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Britain's future hopes! Give Mark a couple of more years though! Don't

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worry, you are fast enough! It is not just about inspiring a

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generation and people at home, it is about inspiring the rest of

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British sport. We have spoken about marginal gains. They have the

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secret squirrel Club working on every tiny thing to do with the

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technology on the bike and the helmet and the outfits and that is

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it really important part of this excess. Yes, it is structured

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almost like a business. Every detail is seen to. A lot of the

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other performers directors in other sports come to see Dave, he is

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probably the most in-demand performance director in the country.

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He is a great motivational talk of. I was speaking to Chris Boardman

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before, he spent so much time away from his family working with his

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bikes, the guys he was working with, the mechanics learning how to fix

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them and put them together. The staff are incredible. They work so

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hard. I imagine Chris Boardman was a rather emotional man during that.

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He knows what it is like to write during this sort of thing. Special

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scenes. As emotional as it was for Chris Hoy last night, but we are

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not done for the evening. We still have got Victoria Pendleton to come

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in the keirin. It keeps on rolling. It does. Hopefully Victoria can

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keep the wheels rolling and we can bring another medal home. She will

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take them energy from what these guys have just done. It will instil

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a bit of extra belief in Victoria. I am sure she is super-confident

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right now. The coaches will have reflected on her last performance.

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They will let her know that she is on form and ready to go, and bring

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it on. At this point you just want to keep it over and get it over.

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The carpenters have banked 300,000 nails into the floorboards to build

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this, and they did a good job. Congratulations once again to Team

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GB. We are about to stand for the national anthem. The medals will be

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presented by his Royal Highness, crowns Prince Frederik of Denmark.

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We are almost ready to have the medals presented. Prince Frederik

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of Denmark will be giving the medals. The flowers will be

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presented by the vice-president. Of The winners of the bronze medal of

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a team of New Zealand. They replicate their finishing position

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Their winning time of for the bronze medal, a 3.50 9.52. They

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also third in the world championships earlier this year in

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Melbourne. It was a very, very good contest indeed between New Zealand

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and Russia for that third place on So New Zealander are crowned the

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The winners of the silver medal of a team of Australia. -- are the

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Try as they might, they had no answer to the flying British team.

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In the World Cup earlier this year on the boards, they beat Great

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Britain, we went to the World Championships in Melbourne in April,

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and Great Britain turned the tables to win at the Crown. 0.1 of a

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second separated them. And now Australia have been beaten again

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into the silver medal position. The margin of difference here is much

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Australia, winners of the silver The gold medal winners and Olympic

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champions are the team of Great Britain! Ed Clancy, Steven Burke,

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Geraint Thomas and Peter Kennaugh. And the first man to receive his

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gold medal is Ed Clancy, the start off Rider, second time he has

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received two the gold medal for this event and the second time for

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Geraint Thomas as well, they are the surviving two from the squad

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from Beijing. Steven Burke got a bronze in Beijing, now he gets a

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cold to the team pursuit, and finally, the Manx man, Peter

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Kennaugh, get his gold as well. Let me remind you, it was a world

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record, astonishing time. Three minutes, 51.59 seconds. Now the

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flowers being presented to conclude the official part of the

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Great Britain, gold medal winners Ladies and gentlemen, please stand

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for the national anthem of Great British National Anthem - "God Save

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Olympic medallists! So great Britain

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conquer the opposition it in a riveting contest. They personifies

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the ultimate class throughout all three rounds. Stellar performance,

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well done, boys. Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Steven Burke and Peter

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Kennaugh. So Britain's fruit Paul Hall continues. Just wondering how

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many gold medals we are finally A full house, and we have still got

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another final to go, where Victoria Pendleton will be out to try and

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achieve the same podium position as these four lads. Come on, lads,

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give us a smile! The Aussies are trying to give us a smile. What a

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pity the individual pursuit was taken out, the blue Riband event

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So they leave the podium, the Kiwis leading off it. The gold medal

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winners, Great Britain, in the middle, I'm sure there might be a

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slight celebration tonight. Australia with the silver. The

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enthralling contest lived up to its reputation, and it was the Great

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Britain with its emphatic display that won the gold medal in a new

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Well done indeed, they should be proud indeed of those gold medals,

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which I am sure will be put somewhere very special.

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Congratulations to Australia, really bring the fight to Great

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Britain, but just falling short. Once again the Velodrome a

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reverberating to the national anthem. We have asked a question,

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how much faster can you go? They will be saying, I want to go faster,

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harder why do that? Are it is a very good question. I think it is

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just beliefs. If you believe you can go faster, you work hard enough,

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you will do it. Obviously, with advances in technology and training,

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but you have got to believe in it, too. Give us your thoughts, if you

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were to return to the track and return to the Olympics in Rio, team

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pursuit would be the events you have to ride in. Is this not

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persuading you? Absolutely, it is an incredible thing on the track, a

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great family, to be part of that, we just inspire each other, build

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on the confidence. I thought maybe we would see a sub 3.50 ride it

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this games, but I guess we will have to wait for Rio! Will not have

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to wait too much longer, will we? Let's just take a look at these

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scenes, I have to let you know we are about to be joined by viewers

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on BBC One, they will be joining us to see a Victoria Pendleton ride

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for gold in the keirin final against her long term it nemesis,

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Anna Meares. Please do tune across now and join us on BBC One, where

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Welcome to the Olympic Velodrome here, you may have -- it may have

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