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Cycling

Gold for Britain

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Chris Hoy anchored Britain's three-man sprint team to victory over France on Friday to claim the first gold medal of the Olympic track cycling programme
After their victory Hoy, Jason Kepny and Jamie Staff put their arms around each bther and stood on the track to greet the cheering crowd.
“We're so happy," said Shane Sutton, one of Britain's coaches. “It's great for Chris, he's going for three golds here.”
“The French have been so dominant for so long,” said Hoy. World champions France have won the last three consecutive world team titles in sprint.
“It's nice to have the top step on the poditim for a change. It's a big thing for us," Hoy added.
Scotsman Hoy is Britain's first world sprint champion in half a century and one of their big Olympic medal hopes. He won gold in the one kilometre time trial in Athens in 2004, an event that is no longer contested at the Olympics.
In addition to the team sprint, Hoy will compete in Beijing in the individual sprint and the keirin, another sprint-oriented race in which cyclists are initially paced by a motorized bike.
Asked if the gold bodes well for 'hist)therevents Hoy said:
"It's the best way to start, but each day is a different day. I'm not thinking beyond my first round tomorrow in the keirin. Anything can happen.”
Defending Olympic champions Germany learned that the hard way. They settled for bronze after edging Australia by a hair in the race for third place. Australia were leading the first two laps until Stefan Nimke powered home for Germany.
Australian Bradley McGee, the
Athens silver medallist in the men's 4000 metre individual pursuit, failed to make it out of the qualifying round, the surprise of the first evening of racing at the Laoshan velodrome.
The Australian, who has won five medals on the track at the last three Olympics, including three in individual pursuit, started off slowly and although he improved his speed in the last few laps he finished ninth of 18.
Only the fastest eight riders’ qualify for the next round of competition on Saturday.
“No Olympic preparation has been perfect," said McGee. “At 32, it's just not happening any more, but so goes life."
“That wasn’t the Bradley McGee I expected to be."
McGee's one-time nemesis, Bradley Wiggins of Britain, broke his own Olympic record in the qualifying round of the individual pursuit to win it witli a race of 4 minutes and 15.031 seconds.