Hero cyclist wins his second gold to set new record at the Games
Scotland basked in Olympic glory last night after the cyclist Chris Hoy won his second gold medal in Beijing.
Hoy, 32, from Edinburgh, powered to victory in the men’s keirin event just ahead of his Scots teammate, Ross Edgar, who won silver.
The win brought Hoy’s Olympic gold medal tally to three, making him Scotland’s greatest Olympian. He is now on course to become the first Briton to come away from a single Games with three golds, if he can win the men’s sprint event later this week.
Commenting on his record-breaking medal tally, Hoy said: “You don’t think about these things. When you get to the start line, you’re not thinking about the podium, medals, nothing — it’s just about the process. It’s about the event.”
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