Cycling sensation Bradley Wiggins is seemingly unstoppable at the moment and he'll have his eyes on three golds in Beijing.
The 28-year-old's rise to the top of track cycling has been explosive ever since his Olympic debut at the Sydney Games in 2000, when he was part of the British Team Pursuit quartet which defeated France in the race-off for bronze.
Back then Wiggins was working his way up in the sport as a successful team player but it wasn't long before he combined these exploits with his formidable performances in the Individual Pursuit - a race in which he's now well and truly regarded as the best in the world.
In 2003 at the Track World Championships in Stuttgart, Wiggins won his first gold although this was nothing compared with the crowning glory which came his way in Athens one year later.
Throughout the Individual Pursuit competition, the Ghent-born Londoner was in supreme form, setting a new Olympic record in the qualifying rounds, and when it came to the crunch he produced the goods once more to beat his great Australian rival Brad McGee in a thrilling final.
He came away from the 2004 Games with a full set of medals having claimed silver in the Team Pursuit and bronze in the Madison with Rob Hayles, becoming the first British athlete since Mary Rand in 1964 to achieve such a feat. He was subsequently awarded with an OBE in the Queen's New Years' Honours List.
Inevitably the expectations are now sky high and the pressure is certainly on him to bring home the gold once again but realistically he could top the podium as many as three times in Beijing.
Indeed, during the 2007 World Championships he claimed two golds from the individual and team pursuits and earlier this year in Manchester he turned the double into a superb treble by not only retaining those two titles but also adding the adding the Madison crown to his collection, with the help of Mark Cavendish.
He'll be aided by the Tour de France star again for the event in Beijing and what a powerful double act it is.
Cavendish was dazzling during this year's Tour, powering his way to four stage triumphs - the most ever won by a Briton in a single edition - to establish himself as one of the hottest sprinters in the world.
The 23-year-old from the Isle of Man pulled out prior to the 15th stage to keep fresh for the Olympics and if he can recharge his batteries to full capacity he'll now doubt be a great boost to Wiggins' monumental dream of three golds at one Games.
