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Smoked implies a substantial margin of victory, which was not what your A-Team had over our development squad.
Meares and Mcculloch undoubtedly did great rides in the team sprint, and would probably have won it even if the prime GB lead out rider hadn't been out playing on her toy bike.
Dropping into the 32s bracket was, leaving jovial nationalism aside for a moment, one of the true highlights of the week, which is not a plaudit one could really apply to any of the pursuit titles. Mulder's Kilo in 1:00.341 was maybe an even greater achievement, showing that there is progress in the event despite the rank stupidity of the UCI/IOC. If I understand physics properly, the Ballerup track, whose long straights made for some much more exciting match sprinting than we've been used to at the more circular tracks, should not produce fast time trials.
Clearly the conditions, if not the track, favoured the sprint time trials, but even so Ed Clancy pulling a completely unnecessary PB and a time good enough for a top 10 finish in the Kilo competition at the end of the Omnium showed not only great athleticism but huge confidence and control. Going off in the last race, he would have known that whatever Leigh Howard did, a 1:03.5 would secure gold, but he still went all out to win it in style. (Pointy) Hats off to the plucky lad from Huddersfield. Finally, once again, Bauge going sub 10s in a match sprint; Hoy would have had his work cut out to stay with that kind of form even without the tactical errors in the early rounds.