Golden opportunity

Hail his Hoyness. He started competing on his BMX bike at the age of seven and never looked back. Yesterday Chris Hoy pedalled his way into the Olympic record books when success in the men's cycling sprint won him his third gold medal. Even two golds made him Scotland's greatest Olympian and, together with the silver medals scooped by fellow cyclist Ross Edgar, rower Katherine Grainger and canoeist David Florence, this marks an extraordinary achievement from the tartan contingent of Team GB. We salute them all.