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Great Britain won their first two gold medals of London 2012 as cyclist Bradley Wiggins took the men’s time trial after rowing pair Heather Stanning and Helen Glover triumphed.
Amid jubilant scenes at Hampton Court, Wiggins became Britain’s most decorated Olympian with seven medals. “I don’t think my sporting career will ever top this now,” said Wiggins.
It came just four hours after Stanning and Glover produced a superb display to win the women’s pair at Eton Dorney.Glover said: “This was for the whole of the team and the whole of the country.” Tour de France winner Wiggins dominated the 44km ride to beat Germany’s Tony Martin by 42 seconds, with Britain’s Chris Froome taking the bronze.
Wiggins moves one medal clear of former rower Sir Steve Redgrave as the most successful British Olympian of all time.“It was phenomenal, the noise was amazing,” said Wiggins, who pretended to conduct the national anthem after receiving the fourth gold medal of his career outside Hampton Court Palace.
“It will never, never get better than that. Incredible. It had to be gold today (Wednesday) or nothing. What’s the point of seven medals if they’re not the right colour? Mainly it’s about the four golds. Now I have to go to Rio and go for five.”
Wiggins and Froome gave Britain their seventh and eighth medals of London 2012, lifting them to 10th in the medal table from 21st overnight. Chris Boardman, who won Olympic cycling gold in Barcelona at the 1992 Olympics, described Wiggins’s performance as “untouchable”.
“His sporting performances this year have been unprecedented. The greatest British cyclist of all time, I have no qualms about saying that. One of the top British sportsmen, also.”
Glover and Stanning led from start to finish to become the first British female rowers to win an Olympic gold.
Culled from The Punch Nigeria.
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