Olympics blog

Chris Hoy said it would take a "special ride" to beat the British Sprint Team in Beijing and boy was he right! No-one was equal to the efforts of Messrs Staff, Kenny and Hoy over three laps of the track as the British cycling revolution rolled on.

I was slightly less confident than Hoy at the start of the evening after listening to the French broadcasters next to us talk up their own team's chances. The French had been half a second faster than the British trio (with Ross Edgar instead of Kenny) at the World Championships in Manchester.

But Hoy knew how the team were performing in the run-up to these Games and was less surprised than the rest of the velodrome when they smashed the world's best time in qualifying.

Jamie Staff has devoted the last two years to perfecting the opening lap and gives the British team such a wonderful platform and Jason Kenny is living the dream after storming into this sprint line-up.

Kenny looked like an old pro as he stuck to Staff's wheel (well, almost) and gave Hoy the lead out he needed to bring home the gold. The Scot conceded that he too struggled to keep with the pace but his immense power was equal to the challenge and the Brits in the velodrome went wild.

I had barely recovered from their incredible qualifying time of 42.950. It stunned the rest of the field and completely silenced the French media beside us.

But it didn't silence the Hoy family who I caught up with after the evening's excitement. They are such wonderful, dedicated bike fans and have travelled all over the world supporting Chris and the rest of the team and have become great friends since we all made the expedition to Bolivia last year to see Chris attempt the world kilo record.

I received a fantastic email from Chris's dad David this morning with footage of the rest of the clan back in Edinburgh watching the cycling yesterday. It looked like quite a party so I guess, if you can't be here tonight, then I guess that's the next best place to be when he goes for his second gold of the Games in the keirin and Bradley Wiggins defends his pursuit crown.