It was hard to tell what sounded more deafening: Britain's Jason Kenny winning an Olympic sprint gold medal or Victoria Pendleton moving one step closer to doing the same thing. The home nation's dominance of the London Velodrome continued
of cycling at the Olympics, and Sir Chris Hoy , Victoria Pendleton and the rest of the powerhouse British team are ..... Jason Kenny , Britain Women's sprint Gold: Victoria Pendleton , Britain Silver: Anna Meares , Australia Bronze
Australian cyclist of the year Friday. Meares has not trained seriously since London, where she beat British rival Victoria Pendleton to win the sprint gold medal. Meares also combined with Kaarle McCulloch to win bronze in the team sprint at London
sales have surged since Bradley Wiggins in July became the first Briton to win the Tour de France and Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton helped the country win multiple gold medals at the Olympics. Halfords said its cycling division saw same-store
in the velodrome, where Chris Hoy added two more gold medals to run his total to six, and the tearful adieu by Victoria Pendleton to professional cycling when she won gold in the keirin and silver in the sprint. There were the crashes over the
Most-decorated Olympian Michael Phelps, 27, is thinking about improving his golf game and traveling. Gold medalist Victoria Pendleton , 31, is looking forward to getting married and doing ''normal stuff.'' Misty Elizabeth May-Treanor, 35
I'm a bit behind compared to the British athlete as he has the public behind him, but we will see tomorrow.'' Victoria Pendleton and Anna Meares also looked strong in their return to the track. Pendleton, who won gold for Britain in the keirin
world record in the space of a minute in Thursday's opening race of the six-day competition. Home favorites Victoria Pendleton and Jessica Varnish of Britain clocked 32.526 seconds over the two laps during qualifying to improve on the mark
Australia. The world record helped assuage a home crowd upset by the disqualification of the British sprint team of Victoria Pendleton and Jessica Varnish. The team would have raced for gold against China had it not made an illegal changeover in
and training that, in ''a hundredth of a second, a blink of an eye,'' were either tossed away or rewarded. Victoria Pendleton choked out those words. For Britons, the Olympic hosts, she is one of the faces of their games. Feisty, fast