Gold: Lasse Hansen (Denmark)

Silver: Bryan Coquard (France)

Bronze: Ed Clancy (Great Britain)

One of very few people in the velodrome today who seems to understand the finer points of the omnium.

The Briton's time trial was enough to elevate him from fifth to third - he takes the bronze for Great Britain, behind Bryan Coquard of France who takes silver and Lasse Hansen of Denmark, who takes gold.

The medals are still very much up for grabs with the leading five riders, including Clancy, still in with a shout. A lot will depend on this match-up: Hansen clocks in and immediately knows he's won gold.

The German placed third and the Frenchman in a three-way tie for gold first place set off in comparatively eerie silence. Coquard posts a time of 103.078, Kluge 103.144. That was a phenomenal ride by Clancy who must be shattered after the previous five events over 24 hours.

With New Zealand's Shane Archbold having posted the fastest time of the 12 riders to go out so far with 103.290, Ed Clancy and Glenn O'Shea take to the boards. Roared on by a ridiculously partisan crowd, Clancy smashes Archbold's time, stamping his card at 1:00.513 to go quickest in the time trial.

The overall leaders after five events

1. Lasse Hansen (Den) 25 points

2. Elia Viviani (Ita) 25 points

3. Bryan Coquard (Fra) 25

4. Roger Kluge (Ger) 28

5. Edward Clancy (GB) 29

6. Glenn O'Shea (Aus) 31

On Day One we had Prince William and Kate, yesterday we had Paul McCartney and today's special guest is ... retired cricketer and TalkSport host Darren Gough.

"Just once, I would love to see one of the sprinters go for it straight
from the start; particularly one of the underdogs," writes Ewan Benson from Dunblane. "The shock value alone must be worth a second or two. Or have I just turned into one of those quadrennial, sprint cycling, pseudo experts? Oh, and congrats to Andy Murray - the first Olympic gold medalist from my home town!"

Am not so sure about tennis as an Olympic sport. I think that any sport where the winner would happily swap his or her gold medal for a win in some other competition instead shouldn't be in the Olympics.

The 18 riders complete their kilometres (four laps of the track) against the clock two at a time, starting at opposite sides of the track. We don't need to concern ourselves with anyone other than the final four pairings. In the menatime, Will Fotheringham's discovered that it might all be about to kick off between the Brits and the French over the former's alleged use of what the latter suspect might be "magic wheels". You can read all about it here.

"Are the organisers trying to subtly raise our intelligence?" he asks. "First we had the plain, simple individual pursuit (just try and catch the other fella). Then they replaced it with the omnium (do a whole load of more complicated stuff). What's the plan for Rio? The combination sprint/quantum physics exam? Time trials followed by a phd dissertation? At least it's disproving the Daily Mail. Things are getting harder. Definitely."

This is astonishing. After a hard day's racing, Victoria Pendleton has now put on her Great Britain tracksuit top, replacied her scarlet red aerodynamic helmet with a bogstandard street-riding equivalent and slung a red rucksack full of her cycling chattels on to her back and is now sitting on her bike, presumably ready to ride back to the Olympic village. Astonishing stuff.

Kristina Vogel (Ger) beat Lyubov Shulika (Ukr), Simona Krupeckaite (LTU) beat Olga Panarina (BLR) and Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez beat Wai Sze Lee (HKG).

Pendleton, Meares, Guo, Vogel, Krupeckaite and Rodriguez go through to the quarter-finals. The losers go into the repechages.

She's down in the Aussies pits, pedalling a stationary bike. I'm no safety expert, but surely she should be conserving her energy? Besides, are her and Pendleton not both done for the day? [Sifts through increasingly large mound of bits of paper on press box desk] I think they just really like pedalling ... which I suppose is a bonus when you're in their line of work.

She's down in the pits, sitting in her usual chair, swigging from a bottle of water.

With one event, the one kilometre time trial to go, Ed Clancy currently lies in fifth place but is not entirely without hope of getting on the podium, according to my omnium-knowing colleague Will Fotheringham. “If everything goes to form he might scrape a bronze, maybe even a silver,” muses Will, adding: “It could all go to a count-back which even I don't understand.” Wow, I did not think that event could get more complicated but it appears I was wrong.

Shunag wins and joins Meares and Pendleton in the quarter-finals. Hansen drops into the repechages. You wouldn't want to be in a rush anywhere if you were entered in this competition and not very good at cycling. It's damned difficult to get eliminated.

Pendleton's great Australian rival takes on Monique Sullivan from Canada. Meares draws the short straw and is forced to lead out from the start and pedals her way round two entire laps of the track without once looking in front of her to see where she's going. The Canadian tries to swoop down the baking and pass on her inside in the home straight on the second lap, but Meares shuts the door and goes on to win the sprint on lap three by a bike-length.

The race distance is three laps and Queen Vic of Great Britain is taking on Willy Kanis of the Netherlands. The Dutch girl sets off in front and the pair inch their way around the first lap, with the Kanis looking over her right shoulder at Pendleton. Up to the top of the banking they go at the start of the last lap and Pendleton makes her move on the back straight, speeding past Kanis to win by three or four bike-lengths.

The Trinidadian takes on the Russian with a one-leg lead and gets a huge roar of approval as he turns on his afterburners to roughly take his man from behind, so to speak. There was a bit of argy-bargy in the back straight, so there may be a stewards inquiry, but it looked like six of one and half-a-dozen of the other to my untrained eye.

It's Australia v USA as Shane Perkins and Jimmy Watkins pedal off to the far side of the track with the Australian in front on the track and the scoreboard, peering over his shoulder. There are roars of support for both riders and Perkins is first to go. He holds his lead and proceeds to the semi-finals, winning the best of three tie 2-0. If Nicholas Phillip can beat Denis Dmitriev in the next race, it could be an early night for everyone here at the Velodrome.

"I feel my Maths GCSE is not sufficient preparation for viewing the omnium," she writes ... and who could argue?

France's Gregory Bauge takes on Germany's Robert Forstemann and on the first lap, the pair almost come to a standstill on the far side of the track. Forstemannmoves first, giving it full gas at the start of the second lap. He shot his bolt too early, though and Bauge passes him in the home straight on Lap Three, and pips him by half a bike-length. The Frenchman joins Kenny in the semi-finals.

Great Britain's Jason Kenny goes out against Splinter Awang with a one-race lead and wraps up the tie with a comfortable win, completing his flying 200 in 10.030sec. He goes through to tomorrow's semi-finals.

... it's hypnotic. Zachary Bell from Canada (eighth overall) wins, Eloy Teruel Rovira from Spain (11th overall) is second, Bryan Coquard France, fifth) finishes third, Roger Kluge (Germany, sixth) is fourth, Elia Viviani (Italy, fourth) is fifth and Lasse Norman Hansen (Denmark, fifth) is fifth. Ed Clacny finished 10th overall and drops to fifth overall. I'll bring you the overall placings as soon as some helpful, smiling volunteer hands me the relevant sheet of paper.

Ed Clancy is in the second one, While Elia Viviani is in the lead one. Lasses Hansen is caught in no-man's land between the two, chasing the lead group. This isn't grewat for Clancy but there are 26 laps to go.

The starting gun cracks and the 18 riders set off. The current standings in the omnium (remember, the lower the score the better)

1. Glenn O'Shea (AUS) 17 points

2. Ed Clancy (GBR) 19 points

3. Lasse Norman Hansen (DEN) 19 points

4. Elia Viiviani (ITA) 20 points

5. Bryan Coquard (FRA) 22 points

And so to the penultimate event of the men's omnium, in which Britain's Ed Clancy currrently occupies the silver medal position. This is a straightforward race over 16 km and the first rider to cross the line wins.

As the repechages for the women's sprint conclude - Willy Kanis (NED), Monique Sullivan (CAN) and Natasha Hansen (NZL) go through to the last eight - it's difficult to avoid the feeling that compared to the crowds in here over the past couple of days, today's crowd is getting the bum's rush.

OK, yes ... they'll get to say they saw Victoria Pendleton in action, but the only other events on today are the omnium, a convoluted event the average Joe probably doesn't understand and the men's sprint, which has been rendered utterly farcical by the ridiculous rule that only one rider per country is allowed to enter, which means lots of athletes who are good enough to win it are left twiddling their thumbs on the sidelines, while lots of athletes who quite clearly aren't good enough to win it are allowed to compete in it, lose and then compete agains in seemingly endless repechages.

These contests are best of three. At the end of the first round of matches ...

Jason Kenny (GBR) 1-0 Azizulhasni Awang (MAL)

Gregory Bauge (Fra) 1-0 Robert Forstemann (Ger)

Shane Perkins (Aus) 1-0 Jimmy Watkins (USA)

Nicholas Phillip (Tri) 1-0 Denis Dmitriev

The winner of each heat qualifies for the semi-finals. The losers go on to race for fifth to eighth place.

Jason Kenny wins his opening race against Malaysia's Azizulhasni Awang, who remains best known in cycling for this ...

And the women who advance to the second round are, in order of the quickest ...

Wai Sze Lee (HK) 11.300

Shuang Guo (CN) 11.371

Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (CUB) 11.390

Simona Krupeckaite (LTU) 11.528

Kristina Vogel (GER) 11.605

Olga Panarina (BLR) 11.608

Victoria Pendleton (GBR) 11.775

Anna Meares (AUS) 11.800

Lyuobov Shulika (UKR) 11.808

The nine losers go into the first round repechages ...

Thunder was rumbling and it was spilling down with rain when I arrived at the Velodrome earlier, a state of affairs which prompted no little amusement when I saw this missive from the Guardian's Olympic correspondent Owen Gibson doing the rounds.

"Locog has confirmed that there were 'a couple of very minor leaks' in the roof of the £93m velodrome following a downpour earlier," he wrote. "'It won't have any impact on the competition and will be easily fixed,' said a spokeswoman. Still a bit embarrassing given the deserved plaudits that have, er, rained down on the venue's design. Perhaps it will be renamed the soggy pringle if the problem reoccurs."

Owen Gibson, ladies and gentlemen. He's here all week. Try the IOC-approved chicken and don't forget to tip your volunteer.

Kristina Vogel advances to the next round with a flying 200 of 11.605, while France's Virginie Cueff goes into the repechages, as will all the other losers in this round. Only five more of these match-ups to go - it's not the most exciting event in the world in its infant stages, it must be said.

Shuang Guo wins for China, against Daniela Larreal from Venezuela. I saw Guo at a press conference a few days ago, being asked a question by a journalist that she clearly took exception to. If looks or monosyllabic answers could kill ...

Australia's Anna Meares, a fierce rival of Pendleton's who's been having a torrid time of it in these Olympics, takes on Japan's Kayono Maeda and beats her comfortably, clocking 11.800.

Having flipped over No2 on the tray bearing two numbers face down proferred to her by an official, Pendleton starts on the outside and lets Gnidenko set off in front. She lurks behind the Russian for the first two laps before cutting down the banking and sprinting up her inside on the bell for the final lap. Pendleton leaves the 19-year-old Russian in her dust as she clocks a time of 11.775 for her flying 200.

Victoria Pendleton has her big red helmet on and is sitting in the pre-race holding area with eyes front, looking very focused indeed. She's up against Ekaterina Gnidenko in the first round proper and starts on the outside.

See An Idiot's Guide To The Men's Sprint and ... well, if you can't figure it out from there, then this might not be the rolling report for you.

The men's sprint takes place over three days at the Velodrome, with this being day two. The tournament is single-elimination, after seeding via time trial which took place yesterday. Each match pits two cyclists against each other in a best-of-three races match (it's best of three from last eight on). Each race is three laps of the track with side-by-side starts. It's that one where they start off very slowly, going up and down the bank looking at each other suspiciously before somebody cracks and makes their move.

The omnium is like the heptathlon for track cyclists, except there's six events instead of seven.

• Flying lap: this is a race against the clock.

• Points race 30 km for men and 20 km for women: riders score points for sprints which occur every 10 laps during the race, and for lapping the field.

• Elimination race: a bunch race with an intermediate sprint every two laps; the last rider each time is eliminated. It's the track cycling equivalent of Musical Chairs.

• Individual pursuit: (4,000m for men, 3,000m for women): two riders start at opposite sides of the track and race against the clock.

• Scratch race: This is a straightforward race over 16 km for men and 10 km for women. The first rider to cross the line wins.

• Time trial (1 km for men, 500m for women): each competitor rides the course aiming for the fastest time.

In each event the winner gets one point, the second placed rider gets two points, the third three points, and so on. At the end of all six events the rider with the lowest total score is the winner. Britain's Ed Clancy is currently in second place in this event with just two events to go.

When I arrived at the track earlier this afternoon, Vicky was sitting in her usual chair, then went to warm up on her stationary bike (see if you can pick her out in the rubbish photo below) and now she's sitting in the chair again. She seems quite animated, mind and is looking around chatting to various people. Sometimes she sits there motionless, wearing shades and headphones, staring straight ahead of her in full-on "do not disturb" mode.

While you were catching an extra couple of hours in bed, scratching yourself and possibly watching that cookery show with Tim Lovejoy on it, Victoria Pendleton was busy smashing Olympic records. In the women's team sprint, she set a world's fastest time at sea level in qualifying with 10.724seconds to set up a match against Russia's Ekaterina Gnidenko, which will kick off this afternoon's bout of cycling entertainment.

Meanwhile in the men's omnium, Ed Clancy moved into the silver medal slot with just the scratch race and time trial to go, thanks to a fine ride in the 4000m individual pursuit. With the men's sprint due to conlcde tomorrow and the women's on Tuesday, the men's omnium is the only event being staged that will produce a winner this afternoon.

4:00pm: Women's sprint 1/16 finals

4:35pm: Men's sprint quarter-finals race one

4:50pm: Women's sprint 1/16 repechages

5:00pm: Men's omnium 15-kilometre scratch race:

5:20pm: Men's sprint quarter-finals race two

5:35pm: Women's sprint 1/8 final

5:55pm: Men's sprint quarter-finals race three

6:05pm: Women's spring 1/8 finals repechages

6:10pm: Men's omnium one-kilometre time trial

6:45pm: Men's sprint finals race for fifth-eighth places

6:50pm: Women's sprint finals race for ninth-12th places

6:55pm: Men's omnium victory ceremony