Brits fight back after French hurl drug insinuations
Thursday, August 21: An insinuation from France's former sprint champion Daniel Morelon, who now coaches the Chinese cycling team, that Britain's medal-winning team
might have been using performance-enhancing drugs, has forced the British to declaim loudly that they have nothing to hide. Morelon said that the British team had… [continued]
The Guardian story about the drugs accusations 
Hoy takes third gold of the Games
Tuesday, August 19: The British cyclist Chris Hoy took his third gold medal of the Beijing Games today with victory over his compatriot Jason Kenny in the men's individual sprint, the final event of the track programme at the Laoshan Velodrome. Hoy became the first Briton… [continued]
More golden glory for Britain at the velodrome
Monday, August 18: Britain added another gold medal this morning, taking the nation's tally to 12 and bettering the mark set in Sydney in 2000. It was won by the men's team pursuit quartet, taking the cycling squad's haul of golds at the velodrome to five, with… [continued]
Britain’s golden weekend continues
Sunday, August 17: Saturday was a record day for Team GB – with four golds and five other medals, it was the country’s best one-day Olympic performance since 1908 – and Sunday was looking just as good. With golds in the two much-delayed sailing events of the Yngling and… [continued]
Cooke claims first British gold
Sunday, August 10: Team GB claimed its first medal of the games - and it was a gold for cyclist Nicole Cooke in a thrilling women's road race. The 25-year-old Welsh rider timed her race to perfection and secured the win with a powerful sprint away from challengers Emma… [continued]
Japan paid $3m for keirin inclusion
Monday, July 28: The haphazard system by which new events are admitted into the Olympics is in the spotlight today after the BBC reported that it had been handed documents which
suggest strongly that the organisers of the keirin, the Japanese cycling event, paid $3m to the Union Cycliste Internationale… [continued]
Full BBC story
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