VP seems glad to have retired now.Sprinting is tough though there used to be more elbow bashing than that

Well done Mears and well done VP for dignified interview.

No! That’s not fair – Meares leant on VP – she was bound to lean back or fall off.

VP has the moral high ground, Meares cheated.

Er, are you watching the same race??

She came out at least 3 times… 😐

Issues with the sport being its bloody hard to dedicate yourself to years of punishing training ? Sacrificing having a normal life ,kids maybe and all the other stuff young people do.

Edric+1

Gutted, that means Australia now have 2 Golds (still behind NZ hahahaha)

Interview with Pendleton….hmmm, girl has issues with this sport doesnt she?

A sport that’s treated her very well and quite badly too, she has reasons to be angry with it.

OK, lets see if Sir Hoy can improve the evening.

Edric+1

Probably also nice to think she can go for a proper bike ride 😉

Australia now have 2 Golds

Think its 3 now

Probably also nice to think she can go for a proper bike ride

In this weather ?

av it

Machine.

Wow. The. Man.

Done!

Normal order is resumed

Brilliant.

Interview with Pendleton….hmmm, girl has issues with this sport doesnt she?….seems relieved (as opposed to sad) to be retiring.

I’d imagine at her level the dedication required is mentally high, trying to live a normal life our planning a family would be near impossible.

Legend, absolute legend.

😀

Chris hoy seem like an all round top bloke.Goes quite quickly too!!!!

A truly Great sportsman,

I don’t know if its just my perception, but there seems to be much more happy celebrations of victory all round at these Olympics than I recall in previous ones, rather than the hateful arrogant posturing and pouting.

Oh and I can also add that as well as thinking VP was robbed, the German commentators also think sir Hoy is an all round great guy.

And he cries too. A real man…

Gods, I’m almost in tears here! Well done Sir Chris – and VP and Laura Trott too. Well done.

now it just remains for us to dominate in the BMX and XC..

Incredible. I thought he’d gone far too early. Anyone else would have effectively lead out and got swamped at the end. But not Chris Hoy.

Chris Hoy crying was enough to bring a tear to a glass eye. 😥

Don’t ever say third place does not count. Teun celebrated as if he’d won gold!

I remember Chris Hoy was at my Uni Hall of residence during 1st year. We’d roll in smashed at 7am on a saturday morning, and couldn’t work out why some lad was going out for a bike ride…

Makes sense now….

🙂

What Gold potential is left.

Reede in the BMX – maybe, a bit unpredictable
Skelton in the Show Jumping- great position
Payne in the 10km Swim marathon- tough race but possible

Outsiders
Dayley in the diving
mens & womens 470 class sailing

That must be it…

So what will the UCI do at the next games to try and prevent GB domination? 😀

That must be it?

Mo Farrah in the 5000m?

oh yes, that’s also a pretty good chance. Any more?

edit – apparently indvidual dressage is look great too

Boxing?

What Gold potential is left.

What about :

Farah in 5000 meters
At least 3 of our boxers

edit…beaten to it on both fronts!

There’s a few boxers through with guaranteed medals, just don’t know the colour.

If they show the highlights of the track again,I will have no tears left.
What a way to finish off.

It was the quivering bottom lip that did it for me..

TOOUNNERD!

Other gold potential? Well, there’s the show jumping, boxing (as above), canoeing, BMX, hockey, pentathlon, etc.

Lots, really!