Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Is track cycling Britain's biggest Olympic hope?


It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say there's been a revolution in British cycling; track cycling.

GB won only three golds at major championships during the 1990s. Yet since the Millennium, they have won 15 golds.

There are five main reasons for this:

1) the advent of lottery funding in the late 1990s
2) the building of the Manchester velodrome
3) excellent leadership from Peter Keen and then Dave Brailsford
4) a superb structure
5) top-class coaches and support staff

Things are so good that an official from British Cycling told the BBC they expect to win five gold medals at Beijing 2008, with an outside chance of a further five.

Credit to BBC