London 2012 Day 11

As expected in the Triathlon the Brownlee brothers, Alistair and Jonny, delighted the huge crowd gathered in Hyde Park by taking gold and bronze respectively, although Jonny's 15-second penalty for mounting his bike too early in transition cost the brothers a potential one-two.
 
In cycling Britain's Laura Trott won the women's omnium after a nail-biting finale to the six-race event . That was Laura's second gold, her first three days ago in the women's team pursuit. Laura is local to here having ridden for Welwyn Wheelers and our local Gosling Sports Cente was featured on the news - I'll have to find her gold pillar box for a future blip.
 
Sir Chris Hoy claimed a historic sixth gold medal as he won the men's keirin, surpassing the total of five golds won by Sir Steve Redgrave. While Victoria Pendleton said farewell to the track with a silver medal in the women's pursuit losing out to her Australian rival Anna Mears. An unfortunate incident in the first run where Victoria was relegated by officials seemed to me a trifle unfair as it looked like Mears initially leaned on Pendleton. Anyway with that going against her it looked like her concentration was blown in the second run.
 
Down at Weymouth Britain's Nick Dempsey put his Beijing torment behind him to clinch silver in the Olympic RS:X windsurfing class. With Dutchman Dorian van Rijsselberge already taking gold, Dempsey defended second as Poland's Przemyslaw Miarczynski took bronze.
 
In equestrian Great Britain's dressage team of Laura Bechtolsheimer, Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin won gold ahead of Germany. While in the athletics stadium Robbie Grabarz won bronze in the men's high jump final to help Great Britain overhaul the Olympic medal total set at Beijing 2008.