The week Team GB rode to glory

The Independent’s sport newsletter [View in browser]( [The Independent]( August 06, 2021 [The Independent]( Great Britain's cyclists ride to glory in week two Top stories [Adam Peaty]( Hello and welcome to our Olympics newsletter, the second and final in our special series to highlight some of the biggest news to come from the Tokyo 2020 games. This is a step away from your usual newsletter offering but we hope you will enjoy this bonus email, which is bringing you all the very latest from a Games like no other. Here we go then as we rattle through one of the most extraordinarily news-filled weeks of an Olympics there has been. To keep up to speed with the events over the weekend before the closing ceremony of the Games on Sunday, [click here for the full schedule for the remaining three days of action](. Team GB continue golden streak If week one of Team GB's Olympic Games was about the swimmers making a splash, the second week has been all about the cyclists riding to glory. Duncan Scott won four medals in the Tokyo pool - the first time any British Olympian has ever done that - while Tom Dean and [Adam Peaty]( also dominated in their fields. But Great Britain's success went from breaststroke to BMX with Beth Schriever and Charlotte Worthington taking gold on two wheels in the race and park events. [Kye Whyte and Declan Brooks also took silver and bronze]( in the men's equivalent as the event's first outing at an Olympic Games played out in glittering fashion for Team GB. The cycling success didn't end there though with [Matt Walls taking a superb gold medal inside the velodrome in the men's omnium](, a first success in the multi-discipline event after silver and bronze in previous Games. But the best was still to come with golden girl Laura Kenny returning to the top step of the podium for a fifth time in her career. [Kenny and Katie Archibald produced a near-faultless ride to claim the first-ever women's madison](title as Kenny became the first British female athlete to win golds in three successive Games. For the full list of medals won by Team GB so far at this year’s Olympics [click here]( and for the full medals table [click here.]( [Laura Kenny ]( Laura Kenny becomes most successful GB female Olympian [Laura Kenny]( won her fifth Olympic gold with an historic victory alongside [Katie Archibald]( in the madison at Tokyo 2020. After settling for silver in the team pursuit, the first time Kenny had ever taken anything other than gold in an Olympic event, the 29-year-old returned to the top step of the podium after [dominating the first women’s Madison event in the history of the Games](. It further extends Kenny’s status as Britain’s most successful female Olympian and she has become the first British woman to win gold at three Olympic Games. She now has six Olympics medals – the same number as equestrian’s Charlotte Dujardin. The team pursuit was new to the women’s programme at the London Games. At the time it was a three-rider event across three kilometres in which Laura – then Trott prior to marrying Jason in late 2016 – raced alongside Dani King (now Rowe) and Joanna Rowsell. The trio would dominate from start to finish. Continuing a pattern from pre-Olympic events, they set a new world record in each round of the event – qualifying, the first round and the final – to storm to gold. [Click here]( for a full look back at Kenny's success over the past three Olympics. [Lauren Price]( Great Britain’s boxers set up glorious and maybe golden weekend Lauren Price won a narrow split decision over her bitter rival Nouchka Fontijn to reach Sunday’s middleweight final. Their score is now 4-3 in Fontijn’s favour, seven brawls between the pair and every round a mauling, pulling, pushing slugfest. Price and Fontijn have the greatest and fiercest rivalry in women’s boxing; [Friday morning’s semi-final was simply a continuation of the scraps they have had in New Delhi, Siberia and Minsk over the years](. It is never easy, always tight, always hard; on this occasion, Price won the most complicated of decisions, having lost a point for holding in round two. It was tense, but she deserved it. “It is never easy against her,” Price admitted. “I had to say calm.” She did stay calm, but resisting Fontijn’s physicality is easier said than done. Price was smart, very smart. On Sunday morning she fights China’s Qian Li for gold. Li won a bronze in Rio and was world champion in 2018; Price won the world title in 2019. It will be hard, trust me, but Price has the mobility and skill to win. For more on what to expect from the boxing action over the weekend [click here.]( Video of the week [Bethany Shriever winning gold ]( Belarus sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya 'so happy' to reach safety Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, the Belarusian sprinter who feared being sent home after publicly criticising her coaches at the [Tokyo Olympics](, said she is “so happy” to be in the safety of Poland. Tsimanouskaya held a press conference on Thursday (6 August) where she spoke to reporters in English about her experience at the Games, and how she sought help from Japanese police. The Belarusian athlete [told reporters how she used Google Translate]( to communicate with the police officers at the airport, and ask for help. To watch the video from the press conference [click here]( . For more on the story involving Tsimanouskaya [click here](. 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