Sir Bradley Wiggins, Mark Cavendish and Laura Trott win world titles

Sir Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish teamed up to win the madison as Britain claimed a fifth gold medal at the Track World Championships in London.

The duo, who won gold the last time they competed in this race in 2008, were roared on to victory by a partisan crowd, beating France into second.
Laura Trott also pleased the Lee Valley VeloPark fans, winning the omnium to claim her second gold of the week.
GB topped the medal table with five golds, one silver and three bronze.

The boys are back

The appearance of Wiggins and Cavendish ensured the championships ended with an electrifying finale.
Thin Lizzy's 'The Boys are Back in Town' boomed out around the velodrome as the fans celebrated what is likely to be 35-year-old Wiggins' last world track title.
The duo remarkably dragged themselves into contention 168 laps into the 200-lap relay race, knowing they were leading on points but needing to match the lap gained by France, Switzerland and Colombia earlier in the race.
Wiggins launched an attack that Cavendish continued and they formed an alliance with Spain, using each other's slipstream, to slowly catch the back of the peloton and gain the crucial lap.
Wiggins and Cavendish worked well, tagging each other into the race every lap or so but it took them 18 circuits to gain the lap.
Then, with 11 laps to go, Cavendish came off his bike but the Manxman returned to the saddle despite later admitting to feeling dizzy.
So unassailable was their lead, though, that the Manxman could raise his arms aloft before Wiggins crossed the finish line to celebrate his third madison world title.
"When we went we had to give everything," said Cavendish. "I hit my head hard so I was a bit dizzy, but I just wanted to get back on and finish with Brad. It could be my last one (Track World Championships) so it's just perfect to go out like this with Brad."
 


Former Tour de France champion Wiggins, who is aiming to win a sixth Olympic title in Rio, described the victory as "incredible".
"You couldn't have written a better script," he said. "It's so nice to be world champion again."
"It was like deja vu from eight years ago. We went on to conquer the world in those eight years, like (American president) Barack Obama.
"We've had a good term in presidency. Come back, full circle and won it again."
The pair finished eighth in the madison at the Beijing Olympics, when they were favourites to secure gold, but that disappointment is now merely a footnote in the careers of two cycling greats.
Cavendish is still trying to make amends for previous Olympic failures and is hoping he has done enough this week to merit an opportunity to win a first gold at the Games.
His chances of competing for Britain this summer are in the balance after he finished sixth in the omnium, outside the top-three target he was told he needed to be considered for selection, but his gritty display in the madison will have helped his cause

"It's emotional. It's hard to put into words what that means to the crowd, to them as athletes. They've achieved so much individually, but this will mean so much to them. Cav had to bounce back after a disappointing omnium and that will have done him no harm in his quest for the Olympic Games."

Trott supreme once again

Trott, the reigning Olympic and European champion in the six-event discipline, improved on the second places at the last three world championships to regain the rainbow jersey she wore in Melbourne four years ago.
She led the standings by 12 points after five events, finishing third in both Sunday morning's 500m time trial and the flying lap, and was supreme in the points race.