Earlier Cornwall's Wendy Houvenhagel beat Yvonne McGregor's 10-year record to reach the women's pursuit final.

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Britain's Rob Hayles and Paul Manning qualified second and third fastest for the individual pursuit final, also on Thursday.

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The "Colne Cyclone" has twice been part of a world-record breaking team this year - in the team pursuit final at the Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne and on Thursday, as part of the Great Britain Olympic team, setting a new world-record time during the men's team pursuit track cycling qualifier.

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Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit.

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The home side, needing 104 more runs on the final day for victory, stuttered in pursuit of their total.

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ATHENS, Greece -- Bradley Wiggins earned Britain's second Olympic cycling gold medal by beating Australia's Brad McGee in the final of the men's four-kilometer individual pursuit.

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