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at's! Here they come, up to the line! Are, look at the time! It is | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
a new world record! And Great Britain have won the gold medal! A | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
faultless display there. They have beaten the Australians emphatically. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
Australia get the silver, and already, the celebrations are | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
beginning to unfold. What a rider that was. Not a lot more you can | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
ask. A gold medal and a world record, in the final in London. But | :02:00. | :02:10. | |
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today we are going to remember for that was something special. | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
they have taken almost a second off the previous mark. Staggering. | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
did rejig the tactics after the first round. AA great job. We have | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
to protect Peter a bit more. Super, super strong in this competition. | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
Darren Thomas, given the option in the last kilometre or -- deride it | :02:39. | :02:49. | |
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Thomas. Lagat the celebrations. -- looked at the celebrations. Look at | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
the applause a growing around here, or round the arena. Thomas was in | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
the team in Beijing, now he wins the Gold Medal again. Ed Clancy was | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
also in the squad. They also are members of the winning team. That | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
may once again confirm, Great Britain have won the gold medal, | :03:09. | :03:19. | |
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they are Olympic champions. As the Australians looked dejected, | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
it is pure delight and relief for Great Britain. I would expect it | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
they might have heard that roar in Manchester at the British Cycling | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
Centre! That was incredible. It was the most incredible noise I have | :03:39. | :03:49. | |
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heard. They broke her own world record, they are dominant, they are | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
the 2012 Olympic champions, and did you join us on BBC2 shortly, they | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
will get there will earn two gold medals. Congratulations to the | :04:12. | :04:22. | |
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We have got to get our breath back after that. I knew it was going to | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
be something special. But here is a chance to look at a few images of | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
the British quartet. Such a well- drilled unit, all the numbers have | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
been crunched in the dunes, all the technique perfected, and the final | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
training in in Newport, it has all come to fruition. Also, there have | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
got to be no egos, I said that several times, it is not about | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
doing equal terms, licking the strongest, it takes a lot of | :05:07. | :05:14. | |
courage to back off, very important that they do all that they can, not | :05:14. | :05:21. | |
the same as everybody else. Thomas missed out on a spot, it could have | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
been guaranteed in that Tour de France team, just to concentrate on | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
that event. Fantastic to see him get this reward. This possibly | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
going to be his last appearance, he wants to concentrate on the road. | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
What a way to go out. The Australians have to be happy, | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
because they couldn't have done any more today, they rode their hearts | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
out. They certainly did. Joanna Rowsell, she is the leader her | :05:51. | :06:01. | |
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rider as we look at all the biter of a competition, and that is | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
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You are going off to your medal ceremony, but congratulations, how | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
does it feel? Absolutely amazing, it is a team event, but we have to | :06:29. | :06:38. | |
take our hats off, they read absolutely amazing. Congratulations, | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
a double Olympic champion, I know you are under pressure to go and | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
collect a gold, we don't want you to miss that, but tell us about | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
that performance? That has been a lot of hard work. Yes, the amount | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
of work we have had to put in. In November, we all at the track at | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
7:30am, they stopped us going to a concert in November, they have been | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
on our backs since then, it has been full on, to finish it off has | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
been amazing. I was ill last week, mentally it has been really hard, | :07:10. | :07:18. | |
without these boys, we couldn't have done it. The crowds, it was | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
just unbelievable. My ears are ringing, it is too loud! Go and | :07:22. | :07:31. | |
I think that is the only man in the hall of the Velodrome is thought | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
that was too loud. What a remarkable moment for British | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
cycling. I am lost for words. to it. You have got to rewind the | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
clock, 2003, 2005, I'm talking today Brailsford every year, and | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
every year it gets better. Four years ago I thought we would get | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
some golds, he is amazing, whatever he is doing, it is just amazing. He | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
is producing and producing. Once you create that momentum and that | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
belief within the team, they have got the support staff around them, | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
the management around it, even the young kids, we had two beginners in | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
there, feeding off the senior guys in that team with that belief a. It | :08:23. | :08:33. | |
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You have got people on the track feeding from what you are doing on | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
the road, and people on the road like you are feeding off from what | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
people like Chris Hoy and Ed Clancy are doing on the track, it is like | :08:43. | :08:52. | |
British cycling is so buoyant! Absolutely. It is just a knock on, | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
not on, not on, you keep having to raise the bar, you cannot sit on | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
one level. You have to keep pushing, keep pushing, keep getting the | :09:02. | :09:10. | |
standards higher. You have both been involved in British Cycling in | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
the Dave Brailsford era. These kinds of performances are not by | :09:13. | :09:21. | |
luck. No, it is not, it is a lot of hard work. That is where I got my | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
biggest improvements, at the end of my career. You break down the nuts | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
and bolts of your life, you look at nutrition and dressed and every | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
ounce of training and you try to improve all of those little | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
elements -- nutrition and sleep. Everyone is perfecting everything. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
They are coming up with advances and technology as well, advances in | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
coaching techniques which is moving us along. It was not that many | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
years ago you would have gone below four in a pursuit, and look at it | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
now, 3.5! I am not going to guess how it will be in the future, let's | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
just keep getting better. If you were watching it and thinking, I | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
was excited but surely Mark Cavendish, Sports Personality of | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
the Year, who has won stages from the Tour de France, surely he did | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
not get excited. Trust me, he was on his feet and shouting at the top | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
of his voice. You were so impressed with Ed Clancy. Incredible, in the | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
last kilometre. Like Peter Kennaugh said before, Steven Burke and Ed | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
Clancy, they were all there to the last 500m. They were so it drilled | :10:40. | :10:48. | |
tonight, they looked release moves. Ed Clancy is the most experienced, | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
probably the best in the team pursuit in the world. Steven Burke | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
missed out in Beijing and it is an incredible ride and I am super, | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
super proud of them. Australia obviously lost a man at this point, | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
but Great Britain making it look easy. Take us inside the body of a | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
rider. Explain how much it would have been hurting. The first time | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
it feels kind of easy. It is an event where you don't look for the | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
effort, the effort comes to you and it can continue in a moment or | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
gradually eased into you. You feel it in the last kilometres. I am | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
sure with the crowd, you will feel that a lot less today because they | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
were incredible. They only lost a man in the last 500m and held it, | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
they held the world record the whole way through, bang on. It | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
shows how a dedicated they have been this year. It shows had | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
dedicated the coach has been. They have got it absolutely spot on | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
perfect. As you walk into this corner of the velodrome, there is a | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
huge banner that says "inspired a generation" and it is these | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
performances that are doing just that. Absolutely. When I was | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
grubbing up looking at Steve Reed Drake and Daley Thompson -- Steve | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
Redgrave. And now it is cycling. I never would have thought that. I | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
hope it produces more cyclists in the future. At home, you might see | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
these guys are achieving this excess but we still need in flux | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
and people coming in. Get on your bike, basically! You could be | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
Britain's future hopes! Give Mark a couple of more years though! Don't | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
worry, you are fast enough! It is not just about inspiring a | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
generation and people at home, it is about inspiring the rest of | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
British sport. We have spoken about marginal gains. They have the | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
secret squirrel Club working on every tiny thing to do with the | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
technology on the bike and the helmet and the outfits and that is | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
it really important part of this excess. Yes, it is structured | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
almost like a business. Every detail is seen to. A lot of the | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
other performers directors in other sports come to see Dave, he is | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
probably the most in-demand performance director in the country. | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
He is a great motivational talk of. I was speaking to Chris Boardman | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
before, he spent so much time away from his family working with his | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
bikes, the guys he was working with, the mechanics learning how to fix | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
them and put them together. The staff are incredible. They work so | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
hard. I imagine Chris Boardman was a rather emotional man during that. | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
He knows what it is like to write during this sort of thing. Special | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
scenes. As emotional as it was for Chris Hoy last night, but we are | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
not done for the evening. We still have got Victoria Pendleton to come | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
in the keirin. It keeps on rolling. It does. Hopefully Victoria can | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
keep the wheels rolling and we can bring another medal home. She will | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
take them energy from what these guys have just done. It will instil | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
a bit of extra belief in Victoria. I am sure she is super-confident | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
right now. The coaches will have reflected on her last performance. | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
They will let her know that she is on form and ready to go, and bring | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
it on. At this point you just want to keep it over and get it over. | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
The carpenters have banked 300,000 nails into the floorboards to build | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
this, and they did a good job. Congratulations once again to Team | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
GB. We are about to stand for the national anthem. The medals will be | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
presented by his Royal Highness, crowns Prince Frederik of Denmark. | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
We are almost ready to have the medals presented. Prince Frederik | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
of Denmark will be giving the medals. The flowers will be | :15:25. | :15:35. | |
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presented by the vice-president. Of The winners of the bronze medal of | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
a team of New Zealand. They replicate their finishing position | :15:50. | :16:00. | |
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Their winning time of for the bronze medal, a 3.50 9.52. They | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
also third in the world championships earlier this year in | :16:12. | :16:21. | |
Melbourne. It was a very, very good contest indeed between New Zealand | :16:21. | :16:31. | |
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and Russia for that third place on So New Zealander are crowned the | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
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The winners of the silver medal of a team of Australia. -- are the | :17:07. | :17:17. | |
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Try as they might, they had no answer to the flying British team. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
In the World Cup earlier this year on the boards, they beat Great | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
Britain, we went to the World Championships in Melbourne in April, | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
and Great Britain turned the tables to win at the Crown. 0.1 of a | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
second separated them. And now Australia have been beaten again | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
into the silver medal position. The margin of difference here is much | :17:46. | :17:56. | |
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Australia, winners of the silver The gold medal winners and Olympic | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
champions are the team of Great Britain! Ed Clancy, Steven Burke, | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
Geraint Thomas and Peter Kennaugh. And the first man to receive his | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
gold medal is Ed Clancy, the start off Rider, second time he has | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
received two the gold medal for this event and the second time for | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
Geraint Thomas as well, they are the surviving two from the squad | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
from Beijing. Steven Burke got a bronze in Beijing, now he gets a | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
cold to the team pursuit, and finally, the Manx man, Peter | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
Kennaugh, get his gold as well. Let me remind you, it was a world | :18:51. | :18:59. | |
record, astonishing time. Three minutes, 51.59 seconds. Now the | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
flowers being presented to conclude the official part of the | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
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Great Britain, gold medal winners Ladies and gentlemen, please stand | :19:24. | :19:33. | |
for the national anthem of Great British National Anthem - "God Save | :19:33. | :19:43. | |
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Olympic medallists! So great Britain | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
conquer the opposition it in a riveting contest. They personifies | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
the ultimate class throughout all three rounds. Stellar performance, | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
well done, boys. Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Steven Burke and Peter | :20:40. | :20:50. | |
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Kennaugh. So Britain's fruit Paul Hall continues. Just wondering how | :20:52. | :21:02. | |
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many gold medals we are finally A full house, and we have still got | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
another final to go, where Victoria Pendleton will be out to try and | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
achieve the same podium position as these four lads. Come on, lads, | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
give us a smile! The Aussies are trying to give us a smile. What a | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
pity the individual pursuit was taken out, the blue Riband event | :21:36. | :21:46. | |
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So they leave the podium, the Kiwis leading off it. The gold medal | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
winners, Great Britain, in the middle, I'm sure there might be a | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
slight celebration tonight. Australia with the silver. The | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
enthralling contest lived up to its reputation, and it was the Great | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
Britain with its emphatic display that won the gold medal in a new | :22:09. | :22:19. | |
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Well done indeed, they should be proud indeed of those gold medals, | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
which I am sure will be put somewhere very special. | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
Congratulations to Australia, really bring the fight to Great | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
Britain, but just falling short. Once again the Velodrome a | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
reverberating to the national anthem. We have asked a question, | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
how much faster can you go? They will be saying, I want to go faster, | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
harder why do that? Are it is a very good question. I think it is | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
just beliefs. If you believe you can go faster, you work hard enough, | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
you will do it. Obviously, with advances in technology and training, | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
but you have got to believe in it, too. Give us your thoughts, if you | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
were to return to the track and return to the Olympics in Rio, team | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
pursuit would be the events you have to ride in. Is this not | :23:16. | :23:26. | |
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persuading you? Absolutely, it is an incredible thing on the track, a | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
great family, to be part of that, we just inspire each other, build | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
on the confidence. I thought maybe we would see a sub 3.50 ride it | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
this games, but I guess we will have to wait for Rio! Will not have | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
to wait too much longer, will we? Let's just take a look at these | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
scenes, I have to let you know we are about to be joined by viewers | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
on BBC One, they will be joining us to see a Victoria Pendleton ride | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
for gold in the keirin final against her long term it nemesis, | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
Anna Meares. Please do tune across now and join us on BBC One, where | :24:08. | :24:18. | |
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Welcome to the Olympic Velodrome here, you may have -- it may have | :24:22. | :24:26. |