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Team Sprint - Lap of Honour

uploaded by iainjones1980 August 23, 2008 at 08:19 am
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The top three teams - Scotland (winners), Northwest Region and Yasumitsu Schlaap - making their lap of honour. Olympic Gold Medallist Chris Hoy is front middle.

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Title: Team Sprint - Lap of Honour

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Created: Sat, 08/23/2008 - 8:19am

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iainjones1980

at 08:27 on August 23rd, 2008

I took this photo in October 2007 at the National Championships at Manchester Velodrome. Chris Hoy (front middle) was already an Olympic Gold Medallist at this point, winning the 1km time trial at Athens in 2004. Much more was yet to come - at the 2008 World Championships (also at Manchester), he picked up two Golds (Sprint and Kierin) and one Silver (Team Sprint). And then, of course, came the 2008 Olympics...