BRITAIN’S cyclists continued their domination at the Laoshan Velodrome by winning another gold and setting themselves up for two more.

The medal went to the men’s pursuit team of Paul Manning, Bradley Wiggins, Ed Clancy and Geraint Thomas, who smashed their own world record by three seconds to beat Denmark in the final to secure gold.

It was Wiggins’, who lives in Parbold, second of the Games and he now has the chance to make it a hat-trick today when he teams up with Mark Cavendish in the Madison.

Chris Hoy also has a chance of a third gold today when he and team-mate Jason Staff compete in the individual sprint after both reached the semi-finals in impressive style yesterday.

Also going for gold today is Victoria Pendleton, who continues to head the women’s sprint field ahead of the semi-finals.

But Rebecca Romero failed to add her second medal after finishing 11th in the points race.

There was also more success for Britain in Qingdao where the 470 of Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield won Britain’s third sailing medal of the Games.

The duo needed to beat France by two places or the Netherlands by three to get a spot on the podium after starting the medal race fourth, and they managed both, finishing third with the French sixth and Dutch seventh to win silver for the second Olympics running.

Christina Bassadone and Saskia Clark finished sixth overall in the women’s 470, but it looks likely that Paul Goodison will win gold today.

Goodison was first, fourth and six in the three races in the Laser class yesterday, opening up an 18-point lead to guarantee himself at least a bronze, and ensure that any finish in the top eight in the medal race will see him win gold.

Nick Dempsey lies second in the men’s RS:X with just one preliminary race to go, while Bryony Shaw is up to fourth in the women’s event.

Things also went well in the Star class for Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson, who jumped up to first place, one point ahead of Sweden after finishing eighth, sixth and first in their three races but Ireland’s Peter O’Leary and Stephen Milne are down in 14th.

But Penny Clark barely scraped into the Laser Radial medal race in 10th place after finishing 18th, 23rd and 13th and Ireland’s Ciara Peelo missed out by finishing 20th.

Leigh McMillan and Will Howden struggled in the Tornado class, placing 14th, seventh and seventh to remain 11th in the standings.

Ireland's Paul Hession produced a notable performance in the second round of the men’s 200metres as he qualified for the semi-finals by winning his heat.

The 25-year-old ran a time of 20.32 to see off the challenge of the USA’s Wallace Spearmon and Trinidad & Tobago’s Rondell Sorillo, who finished fourth having beaten 100m champion Usain Bolt in his morning heat.

And Hession said: “I think I got a relatively easy quarter-final so I am not getting carried away.

“I am going to be in the mix with the big boys. It is wonderful. What more can I ask for?

“I tried to conserve energy this morning in the hope it would pay off this evening and it has done.”

Phillips Idowu laid down the marker in the triple jump with an effort of 17.44m at his first attempt – the furthest jump in qualifying. He will be joined in the final by Larry Achike after his 17.18m effort, but Nathan Douglas missed out with a best of 16.72m.

Martyn Rooney and Andrew Steele both impressed as they sailed through to the 400m semi-finals.

Rooney continued his fine form with a run of 45.00 seconds to win his semi-final, while Steele went even quicker, winning heat six in 44.94s, beating his previous best by 0.37, but Ireland’s David Gillick failed to qualify, finishing fourth in his heat and not being one of the fastest losers to go through.

Andrew Turner and Allan Scott both ran 13.56s to progress in the 110m hurdles but Zoe Derham failed to qualify for the hammer final with her best throw of 64.74m leaving her 19th in the heat and 67.66m was not enough for Ireland’s Eileen O’Keeffe to make the cut either.

Tim Brabants coasted through his heat in the 1000m K1 kayak event, winning by almost two seconds and ensuring he skipped the semi-finals and went straight into gold medal contention.

There was disappointment in the triathlon where world champion Helen Tucker was 21st, while team-mate Hollie Avil failed to finish because of a stomach upset.

Benjamin Swain failed to reach the final of the men’s 3m springboard final after finishing 26th in qualifying with a score of 390.30, 125.20 behind best qualifier He Chong.

And Britain’s first foray into synchronised swimming for 16 years saw Olivia Allison and Jenna Randall 14th after the first day of the preliminaries.

Britain’s Beijing 2008 medal heroes are to get a victory parade, it was confirmed yesterday.

It will be to congratulate the Team GB stars who are currently on track to record one of the nation’s greatest medal haul at an Olympic Games. They will be given a heroes parade through London on October 16, the London Mayor Boris Johnson, the British Olympic Association (BOA) and the British Paralympic Association have confirmed.

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