Chelsea Burns and Rachel Klamer break first on race start.

The speed review:
Team GB dominate. Vicky Holland cleans up for the win. Katie Zaferes claws her way into second to restrict the damage in the rankings.

Heading towards the first mark.

Michelle Flipo and Therese Feuersinger begin the second leg.

Taylor Knibb and Jodie Stimpson lead the front pack.

Lotte Miller at the top of the climb.

Nicola Spirig leading towards the middle of the bike leg.

Michelle Flipo rounds the downhill corner.

Team GB goes tot he front in the final stages of the bike.

Claudio Rivas.

Katie Zaferes runs into second place.

Jo Brown into fourth.

Looking east over St James’s Park Lake from Horseguards.

This serene, inner city scene is in contrast to what was going on behind me at Horseguards. A literal shit-storm as the mounted guards went about their ceremony while their trusty mounts emptied their bowels with free abandon. You know who the star of the show is when there are people around with the sole job of picking up your faeces.