Enjoyed both of today's Commonwealth road races. Brilliant team effort by England throughout the race in the Women's to secure Gold and Silver, and glad GT's puncture with only a few km to go didn't cost him the win in the Men's.
Interesting that the BBC had a story on Brailsford saying he'd had a lot of discussion about setting up a female Team Sky. As Armitstead said after the race, the England team worked superbly and a team based around them with some of the other home nation stars would be formidable. They had a good balance of using the track girls to soften up the peleton and chase down early attacks, with the more endurance based girls to go the distance. Pooley will be missed in that respect, she's been an awesome team player doing much the same role today as she did for Lizzie at London 2012. Glad she got a silver for all her effort today.
Cav's comment about not being able to go back to the track like Wiggo has due to not being with Team Sky made me wonder how Wiggo could move to another team, if speculation is correct? Surely other non-Sky riders do track as well as road?