Set aside time and money for a vacation, and guard it like gold, Thomas advises.

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For years NovaGold Resources has excited investors, like billionaires George Soros, John Paulson and Thomas Kaplan, who were bullish on gold.

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Wales had three Olympic gold medallists in cyclists Cooke and Geraint Thomas, plus rower Tom James.

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In a bumper year of accolades, Wales had three Olympic gold medallists in cyclists Nicole Cooke and Geraint Thomas, plus rower Tom James.

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In the Olympic two-man test race in February at Sochi, Cory Butner and brakeman Johnny Quinn were the highest-finishing Americans in ninth, more than a second off the gold-medal pace of Beat Hefti and brakeman Thomas Lamparter of Switzerland.

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New York billionaire Thomas Kaplan is chairman of Novagold and has in recent years been a big investor in gold and gold mining stocks.

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Wiggins, who won individual pursuit gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics then added gold in individual and team pursuits in Beijing four years later, joins Geraint Thomas, Ed Clancy, Steven Burke and Andy Tennant for the five-man, four kilometre team pursuit.

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Thomas has improved each year since he turned his focus from the track - which brought him an Olympic team pursuit gold medal - to the road.

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