Last word on cycling. I promise (honest)

My first movie edit...

I hope that it loads properly (and that the internet faithful will forgive my rather 'gauche' presentation).

Grazie

Arise, Sir Christopher. Incredible

Sir Chris Hoy replete with Olympic gold medal haul (photo ©Telegraph.co.uk)

I'm really thrilled about Chris Hoy's knighthood.

I know that it's 'not cricket' ...

(it is definitely about cycling - the one thing that I really wanted to do but never got to because my Dad wouldn't get me a bike)

...but I was quite taken with the cycling, if not the Olympics as a whole - Nicole Cooke bum-rushing the show in the rain, then Hoy racing round the track, then him and two of his pals getting it on for more of the gold stuff - quite distracting, really. A change from the pampered, preening, 'modern-day slaves' that predominate in today's soccer Premiership (for example).

All in all an incredible year for the Edinburgh cyclist and his family.

God bless him.