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All gold: Powerful pursuit team
Men's team pursuit:
Gold: Ed Clancy/Paul Manning/Geraint Thomas/Bradley Wiggins (GB)
Silver: Casper Joergensen/Jens-Erik Madsen/Michael Moerkoev Christiansen/Alex Nicki Rasmussen (Den)
Bronze: Sam Bewley/Hayden Roulston/Marc Ryan/Jesse Sergent (NZ)
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Great Britain's fearsome cycling pursuit team smashed their own world record as they crushed Denmark to win another gold at the velodrome.
The quartet of Paul Manning, Bradley Wiggins, Ed Clancy and Geraint Thomas set a blistering time of 3:53.314 for the 4km event and finished a whopping 6.7 seconds ahead of the Danes.
A magnificent start from the British team saw them open up a gap of nearly a second after just the opening lap, and it never looked anything other than a world record ride from then on.
It was a second gold for Wiggins after his win in the individual pursuit, and he still has a big chance of a third in the madison with Mark Cavendish.
"We had more in the tank as we showed on the track tonight," said Clancy. "It's great to be part of such a brilliant British team."
New Zealand beat archrival Australia to take the bronze medal.
Sprints
Two more medals could be on the way as Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny, already with a gold in Beijing so far, both made it through to the semi-finals on the men's individual sprint.
Hoy demolished Malaysian Mohd Azizulhasni Awang, while fellow team sprint champion Kenny took the big scalp of Frenchman Kevin Sireau to join the big Scotsman in the last four with both needing just two of the three races to go through.
Team GB will be hoping for an all-British final as Hoy faces Mickael Bourgain of France, while Kenny takes on Germany's Maximilian Levy for a place in the final.
Victoria Pendleton also looks in superb form as she destroyed Lithuania's Simona Krupeckaite to set up a semi-final against Willy Kanis of Holland.
Gold medal pursuiter Rebecca Romero failed to add a second medal as she took on the complicated points race for almost the first time in Beijing.
Rower-turned cyclist Romero made history when winning medals in two different Olympic sports with her individual pursuit gold, but the points race is a different story altogether.
Romero could not handle the sprints and tactical side of the race in what was in reality her first real attempt at a full points race so soon after her pursuit glory.
After some decent efforts at making the break, Romero finished 11th as Holland's Marianne Vos won the gold with ease with 30 points.
