Simon Brotherton, BBC commentator 

I'm just getting my breath back after another special day at the Laoshan velodrome that will stay with me for a very long time.

Every rider in the British team to appear on the track so far has managed to win a medal, but leading the way on the first two days of competition has been the unofficial leader of the team, Chris Hoy.

Hoy has now become Scotland's most successful Olympic athlete ever, after winning his second gold of these Games and his third in total.

Hoy won the gold in the kilometer time trial in Athens and at that point thought his career in individual events was all but over. Since then he's totally re-invented himself in the match sprint and the keirin, becoming world champion in both.

One thing I do know, there can be few better ambassadors for British sport anywhere.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/simon-brotherton/

(China Daily 08/18/2008 page27)