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Meares' gold in a packed velodrome came just four months after she won the world championship in Melbourne.
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According to a report in the Financial Times last February HSBC has been in advanced talks to move Chris Meares, the global head of its private bank, to Hong Kong from London.
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Meanwhile, Australia's Anna Meares set a world record to win the women's 500m time trial in a race she might well have missed had it not been for an injury to her older sister.
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Meares' sister Kerrie had been favourite to take Australia's berth in the race but complications arising from a fall she had in Russia two years ago meant she had to have surgery which ruled her out of the Athens Games.
CNN: Time trial wins for Hoy and Meares