Hoy performs to packed house

Chris Hoy, Great Britain's 1 kilometre time-trial world champion, was set to ride in front of a packed house when the track cycling got underway inside the newlyroofed Olympic Velodrome today.

While other sports have struggled to draw the crowds, all six days of the cycling at the 3,638-seater venue are sold out. Not that Hoy was particularly excited about that.

The Flying Scot insisted: "It will be the same as every other event with the same riders and the same size track. There's nothing different about it and the important thing is not to get it out of proportion.

"The Olympic Games are what you've been training towards for four years and if you think about it too much it can get to you."

Hoy was lucky to escape injury earlier in the week when he fell off his bike overtaking a bus.