It's no exaggeration to say that Team GB have dominated Beijing's Olympic Laoshan Velodrome, with twelve cycling medals, eight of them being gold. They've smashed world records in the men's and women's indivdual and team sprint and pursuit events and took gold and silver in an exhilerating Keirin final. The men's team pursuit was precision poetry in motion.

Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny, Victoria Pendleton, Rebecca Romero and Bradley Wiggins took home multiple medals. Sadly hotly tipped favourite Cavendish lost out in the Madison and Shanaze Reade took one hard fall after another in the BMX, both will be hungry when 2012 comes round though.

Britain's cyclists are, in the words of Worre the Danish Team Trainer, "like animals on the track". The calibre of Hoy, Wiggins, Romero, Pendleton and the rest are simply astonishing and thanks to them the interest in track cycling, in Britain at least, has never been higher. "GB Cycling has stepped up to a whole new level. They look immaculate, they dominate the arena and they know they can deliver." According to David Brailsford, the British Cycling performance director, there was no specific ingredient or secret and that success has come by way of the “aggregation of marginal gains”. That and some discipline and lottery funding no doubt - bring on 2012.