“We do like the noise, but it will be good to be able to hear yourself think,” says Joanna Rowsell. This was something she could not do three years ago when she, Laura Trott and Dani King delivered the third gold of Super Saturday – in the team pursuit – amid the roar of the velodrome, just moments before the heroics began in the Olympic Stadium.
This week marks a year until the start of Rio 2016, which will, it has to be admitted, be a different experience for Team GB and its supporters. But the track cycling team, which their coach Shane Sutton likes to call “the most successful sports team in British history”, are hoping it will not be too different, even if replicating the successes of London, and Beijing before it, will be intensely difficult.