Talk about cleaning up!! The British team won a record number of medals at this weekends World Championships in Manchester. For more on all that follow this link here.

I just want to say how great it was to see our sport get so much television coverage. Sure Eurosport were doing their usual excellent bit with tons of coverage but to see live cycling on terestrial BBC channels was a suprise but a joy. I don’t know how many people tuned in but it no doubt looked a sucess with the amount of success the team were having on the track. Even Saturday’s prime-time Grandstand show had hours worth of track coverage.

The sinister people amoung us, including myself at times, will say that the BBC are getting on baord now because they know this is were most of our Olympic success will be in Beijing. That is true, I mean Britain will struggle to win medals in most other areas so why wouldn’t the BBC use this as a chance to get the viewing public on board in time for the Olympics. Fair enough I say. I may not be for the Olympics being in China and I still hope to see a boycott but if we do end up there and competing it would be great to see the coverage of cycling and the media attention it would gain if it did indeed produce about 90% of our total medal haul.

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