Romero comes out on top in all-British final to secure unique double

Rebecca Romero won Olympic cycling gold in the women's pursuit at the Laoshan
Velodrome, beating fellow Briton Wendy Houvenaghel in the final.

Romero becomes the first British woman to win two medals in two different summer Olympic sports.

The 28-year-old from Surrey was over three seconds quicker than 33-year-old Houvenaghel who was born in Northern Ireland but represented England in the last
Commonwealth Games.

'To have done what I've done - to become an Olympic champion puts you on a
different level to everyone else,' she said.

'I was thinking in the Olympic village - when you're one of the best athletes
in the country, it feels like you're good at something.

'But then you go and mix it up with 6000 of the best athletes in the world and
you're nothing unless you become Olympic champion.'

Romero is the fifth British cyclist to win a gold medal and the 10th to win a
medal of any colour.

Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny made it safely through to the next round of the
sprint.

Hoy, aiming to win his third gold medal of these games, comfortably saw off the
challenge of Russia's Denis Dmitriev.

And Kenny, a gold medallist with Hoy in the team sprint, had little trouble
against Lukasz Kwiatkowski of Poland.

The two Britons had been the two fastest in qualifying with first Kenny then
Hoy lowering the record the flying 200 metres used to seed the sprints.

And there were further golds for Britain as Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson claimed victory for Britain in the Yngling medal race at the Olympic sailing regatta.

In what amounted to a two-horse race for the gold against the Netherlands in
the Yngling class, Team GB came home in first place for the first time in the
regatta with the Dutch trailing in fifth in heavy conditions on the Yellow Sea.

And there was another golden moment for Britain as Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase won the lightweight men's double sculls in the rowing.