Well done the British cyclists in Beijing

Their wheels on fire, rolling around the ’drome

It made for great live TV, sat watching

The Olympics unfold, off work, at home

Well done to Staff, Kenny and Hoy; that’s some

Achievement, beating the French team to gold

We’ve already done better in our sum

Total of golds than in some Games of old

Talking of which, I remember the Cold

War boycott of Moscow, with Wells winning

The hundred metres, Seb and Steve and Cram

Mary Peters in Munich, when tears rolled

Lasse Viren, and Cuban ‘White Lightning’

Ben Johnson sold his Seoul, the cheating bum!