Victoria Pendleton is desperate to become Britain's first ever female Olympic gold medallist in cycling and there's no doubt she's the red hot favourite to win her event.
The 27-year-old from Bedfordshire has topped the podium in three different events at World Championship level but in Beijing there will be no women's team sprint or Keirin.
Therefore Pendleton has one shot at gold but at least it's her favourite event, the sprint, in which she reins supreme having won the world title in 2005, 2007 and 2008.
She didn't exactly have the best of Olympic debuts back in Athens when she finished well outside the top three in both the time trial and the sprint but her fortunes have changed drastically since then.
In 2005 in Los Angeles she became the first British woman to win world sprint gold and just a year later followed this up with victory at the Commonwealth Games, where she also picked up a silver in the 500m time trial.
Her career then took off in spectacular fashion at the Track World Championships in Spain last year as she produced a trio of stylish performances to win individual gold in the sprint and Keirin before completing her treble triumph alongside Shanaze Reade in the team sprint.
On the back of plenty of media exposure and plaudits, Pendleton remained focused on the job and earlier this year at the World Championships in Manchester continued her dominance by capturing gold in the individual and team sprints while also picking up a silver in the Keirin.
Beijing will provide her moment of truth but will she deliver when it truly counts? A whole nation will be behind her.
