Olympics Update the Two - Wiggy, Wiggy, Wiggy!!!, on Dispatch from the Razor's Edge

So today was the cycling time trials out at Hampton Court – what they call the 'Race of Truth', because there's nowhere to hide…

Wait a minute, hang on, before I go any further, this needs to be got out: Wiggins and Froome take gold and bronze!!! YEAHHH!!! Team GB!!! Our second gold!

Okay, sorry. Carrying on… And so Ryan, whose family are in Korea at the moment, agreed that we should go! Be part of things! This was particularly amusing and gratifying because of the ole story from the 1996 Olympics that I've told a million times but I don't think ever blogged… Anyway, on with the asskicking Olympic time trials video! And sod the photos, too – I'll just bung the ones I like onto the end of the video (after the music credit)! As you may not know if you've been crushed under a rock, Bradley Wiggins became last month the first Brit EVER to win the Tour de France. And today he became our most prolific Olympic champion on top of it…

Update!: Britain is now FIFTH in the Medal Tables (after being 11th last night) – and the U.S. is making up ground on, and breathing down the neck of, China for the top spot!!!

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