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Hoy: Impressive hat-trick
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Men's sprint
Gold: C Hoy (GB)
Silver: J Kenny (GB)
Bronze: M Bourgain (Fra)
Men's madison
Gold: Argentina
Silver: Spain
Bronze: Russia
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Chris Hoy became the first Brit in 100 years to win three golds at the same Olympics when he dominated the men's sprint final.
The flying Scotsman triumphed 2-0 over team-mate Jason Kenny to add to his previous successes in the team sprint and the keirin.
Hoy's latest victory gives Britain's cycling team a seventh gold in 10 events in the velodrome, while their 15th overall in Beijing.
He had destroyed Mickael Bourgain of France in the semi-finals on his way to his fourth career gold having won the kilometre time trial in Athens four years ago.
Unbelievable feeling
"It's the most unbelievable feeling," said Hoy, now Scotland's most successful Olympian ever.
"You cross the line and all the pressure and expectation evaporates and it's like nothing else you've ever felt.
"It's about the process and the performance, breaking it down to the technical elements. That's why the emotions come out at the end, it just erupts out of you."
The only other British athlete to have finished with three golds from a single Olympic Games was swimmer Henry Taylor at London in 1908.
Despite the disappointment of defeat, Kenny could settle for a well-deserved silver to add to his gold from the team sprint.
The 20-year-old from Bolton tried his best to upset the odds, twice leading out Hoy only to see his colleague come roaring past in the closing metres.
"He (Hoy) is really hard to beat," said Kenny. "I gave it my best shot. On the second run I got it down perfectly but he had the legs. That's just the way it is."
Madison misery
Bradley Wiggins fell at the last in his attempts to win three gold medals in Beijing, he and team-mate Mark Cavendish finishing a disappointing eighth in the Madison event.
The reigning world champions were marked men by the rest of the field and failed to ever get clear of their rivals in the 50km race.
They did manage to pick up points in the second, fifth and ninth sprint laps, though any attempts they made to break away and gain a lap were soon covered.
In the end gold went to Argentina, the pairing of Juan Esteban Curuchet, Walter Fernando Perez underpinning their success by gaining a lap early on.
Spain's Juan Llaneras ended his illustrious career with a silver alongside compatriot Antonio Tauler, while the bronze went to Mikhail Ignatyev and Alexey Markov of Russia.
