Winning never gets boring!

Sue Powell - World Champion. Kieran Modra and Scott McPhee - World Champions and world record holders. Jayme Paris - winner. Alex Green - bronze medallist. Bryce Lindores and Sean Finning - bronze medallists. Those are the latest results from the rest of today's racing.

And of course, here's the photographic evidence.

That's Sue and Alex after receiving their medals...

...and the two men's tandem teams after receiving theirs.

I think the highlight of today's racing was Alex's bronze medal in the women's C4 pursuit. Alex hasn't yet developed a blindingly fast first lap and the Chinese had obviously done their homework after the qualifying ride - Alex was racing a Chinese woman who had qualified 2 seconds slower than her for the bronze. It just so happens that this Chinese rider holds the world record for the 500m time trial. The Chinese strategy turned out to be to get their rider to essentially ride a 500m time trial and catch Alex within the first two laps, which would have been the end of the race, bronze to China, 4th to Alex. In the strangest pursuit I've ever seen, the Chinese rider made it to literally within about a metre and a half of Alex's back wheel as Alex gave her all to get up to race pace. At almost exactly two laps, the Chinese rider blew up, Alex kept going and then caught the Chinese rider at about lap 7, securing her first World Championships medal in the process.

Now I did promise to introduce Peter Day, the Head Coach of the team, but he's so busy orchestrating all of the successes I've been reporting on that I can't get him to stand still for long enough to take a clear photo, so I'll keep trying, but tomorrow's another busy day, so I'm not holding my breath!

It's funny the things you notice at this type of event. Like all the cars, trucks, vans etc in the parking lot with an amazing array of sponsors' logos all over them, but the following really took my fancy so I had to share -

I found it quite entertaining to have a VW van emblazoned with advertising for Skoda! And yes, for all you purists out there, they are part of the same motor group, but it's still pretty funny. Or maybe I got up too early this morning!

Now, for anyone who hasn't been keeping count, here's a summary of the results to date.
Gold - 4
World Records - 3 (even though Andrew's only lasted a moment!)
Silver - 1
Bronze - 2
First place - 1 (because Jayme doesn't have any to race against, she can't be awarded a medal, but she's still a winner to us)
PBs - 5

Tomorrow is the final day of competition and we have the women's tandem pursuit, the mixed team sprint, the men's tandem sprint and the 500m time trials for Sue, Alex and Jayme.