More success, our Wiggo, yes Bradley Wiggins has won medal number 8, in the team pursuit, and it's a gold colour. Well done Bradley, along with teammates Ed Clancy, Steven Burke, and Owain Doull. The world record was smashed and yet again, we beat our Aussies cousins hehehe. The UK is a cycling superpower.
Cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton to win eight Olympic medals as GB claimed three golds and three silvers on day seven in Rio.
Wiggins now has five golds, one silver and two bronzes to surpass fellow cyclist Sir Chris Hoy's tally of seven.
The 36-year-old cyclist combined with Ed Clancy, Owain Doull and Steven Burke to complete the 4km race in three minutes 50.265 seconds to secure Britain's seventh gold of the Games.
"When you have guys like that it makes your life easier," said Wiggins.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37062868
It's rowing and boy do I have great news here.
First our lovely girls secured silver in the 8 person team event. Well done Melanie Wilson, Frances Houghton, Polly Swann, Jessica Eddie, Olivia Carnegie-Brown, Karen Bennett and Zoe Lee, you looked great out there!
Great Britain's women's eight won their first Olympic medal, taking silver in the rowing behind the United States.
The crew of Katie Greves, Melanie Wilson, Frances Houghton, Polly Swann, Jessica Eddie, Olivia Carnegie-Brown, Karen Bennett and Zoe Lee held off Romania on the line.
Great Britain were last at the halfway point but moved through the field in the second 1,000 metres.
For Great Britain, urged on by cox Zoe de Toledo, a first Olympic medal comes after a fourth-placed finish at the 2015 World Championships.
"At 500m to go I thought we were going to win," Swann told BBC Sport. "I believed with every stroke we had what it took. It does not take away from this silver, it is incredible.
"These girls are strong, sassy, inspirational and I am so proud of them."
Before the Games there was some speculation that the British eight, the European champions, could have been joined by Katherine Grainger and Vicky Thornley when their double scull boat was dissolved.
However, the existing team went on to win World Cup silver behind the US and each member out-performed Grainger and Thornley at unofficial trials.
That led Grainger and Thornley to revive their double sculls boat - the silver they won on Thursday making
Grainger Great Britain's most decorated female Olympian - with the eight then creating their own piece of history.
They were more than two seconds behind the US, holding off Romania by only 0.12 seconds.
"We have worked so hard to get here," said Eddie. "But it is not just for us it is for everyone who has rowed in the women's eight in the last 20 years.
"They have tried to do this and we have done this for them."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36688098
Back to cycling,
Well done girls, what can I say! You got gold in the women's team pursuit, you broke the world record and you beat the USA, wooooooooh! We are so proud of you.
2012 golden girl
Laura Trott is
Great Britain 's heroine once more after storming to a history-making
third Olympic gold medal in the team pursuit.
Team GB quartet Trott, Joanna Rowsell-Shand, Elinor Barker and Katie Archibald set the world record in qualifying fastest for tonight's final in a blistering 4:12.152 seconds.
But they saved the best for last blitzing the United States in the final to break their own record again blasting round to a new best time of 4.10.236.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/cycling/laura-trott-wins-historic-third-8626355
