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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Great Britain have dominated the track cycling for the third Games running with the success put down to hard work, technological innovation and a quadrennial schedule geared towards Olympic success.However, theres a sense of bewilderment, and in some cases suspicion, among the other teams at just how dominant Britain have been on the track after some mixed performances in the intervening years.Our performance at the worlds wasnt too shabby, British Cycling head coach Iain Dyer said in response to some of the queries over Great Britains form. Weve won 12 world titles since London 2012. If that makes us cannon fodder coming into the Olympics then so be it.If you look at some of the times that have been done here, some of the teams simply havent shown up. Thats the bottom line. I dont want to cite specific examples but you can all trawl through the times for World Cups and World Championships. Some of the people here are not even performing at the level of World Championships.Earlier in the week Laurent Gane, the French sprint coach, questioned the British success, saying rhetorically: You have to ask how they do it.His comments were followed by Australias 2012 gold medallist Anna Meares thoughts.The British are just phenomenal when it comes to the Olympic Games, and were all just scratching our heads going, How do they lift so much when in so many events they have not even been in contention in the World Championships? said Meares, who later clarified her comments in a tweet.?Theyve got it together, and to be honest Im not exactly sure what theyve got together.A broad stroke response would be to point to the prioritisation of the Olympics in the four-year cycle where performance at the Games affects UK Sport funding. The Games are put at the head of the queue and with new, innovative equipment saved for the quadrennial bonanza.Former Team GB cyclist Chris Boardman, who won gold at the Barcelona Olympics, told ESPN: The funding for the Team GB team is all about lottery funding. Its all about this one event, the Olympics. It is the biggest prize for track cycling.They put all their eggs in one basket and it gives them a sense of urgency once every four years that they dont have for the World Championships. The World Champs are a big competition, where you try hard, but it isnt life or death in a sporting sense.You have coaches here who are so experienced. The other thing is the Olympics are in the summer while the World Champs are in the winter. Its difficult to peak twice and they seem to have perfected the art of that across the different disciplines.Coupled with this prioritisation are the marginal gains, former British Cycling performance director Sir David Brailsfords credo looking at any small advantages in tweaking equipment, clothing and tactics. Under Brailsford, Boardman headed up the Secret Squirrel Club, a department looking at finding marginal gains across the board, before then stepping away in 2012.Boardmans post is now held by Tony Purnell, the Cambridge professor who heads up British Cyclings Research and Innovation department. Purnell is using some of his Masters students to focus on GB cyclings technology.The Secret Squirrel Club has now been replaced by Room X, the brains trust behind the athletes new skin suits -- complete with raised ribbed strips -- and the athlete-tailored Cervélo T5GB bikes they have ridden to glory here in the velodrome.I think what we have got to bear in mind is over the last 16 years since weve just tried really, really hard to maximise our medal effectiveness in the Olympics, Dyer said. And the staff that weve built and the structure and the culture that weve built have been instrumental to bring us to this position throughout Athens and Beijing and London and now here.I think if you look at the last couple of years as an example, when Shane [Sutton] became technical director he made quite a few tweaks to our structure. So if you compare the staff who were working in London with the staff who were working here, theres a reasonable amount of change thats gone here.If you look at this fresh blood coming in and these changes a lot of the back room staff remain the same, performance analysts the bio mechanists and physiologists.These are PhDs in what they do and they are really, really bright people and they do a super, super job and these guys have remained a constant throughout this process. And its that, thats the heart of our success here. Its not sexy, it probably doesnt sell newspapers Im sorry. But thats the bottom line.Weve got a really, really great team of people doing a fantastic job and who will go to the ends of the earth looking for that final marginal gain. Its all about marginal gains, isnt it? Thats what we have become famous for.For the riders, the technology and the feeling of intensity and excitement around the Games helps take them to their next level, fulfilling potential.A lot of the [British] team are working purely towards the Olympics. The last 12 months coming up to the Games you start getting that feeling and you start getting all that momentum, five time gold medallist Jason Kenny said.And you get the nice new shiny stuff coming out and all of a sudden you see the guys you havent seen for four years come out of the woodwork and push us on that last fraction.I think its just that last nudge over the line that really pushes us and brings it together.And all this alongside their wonderful world-beating athletes. It all adds up to their unparalleled cocktail of success.The low hanging fruit disappeared years ago, Dyer said. There was a lot of talk of people catching up because they just saw the gains that we had started to make was stuff they could copy and emulate. 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WASHINGTON -- If the Colorado Rockies faced contenders like the Washington Nationals more often, they might also be in the playoff race.Nolan Arenado went 4 for 4, including his 35th home run and a triple, and drove in three runs as the Rockies beat the Nationals 5-3 on Sunday.Arenado and David Dahl hit back-to-back home runs in the third inning off Nationals rookie Lucas Giolito.Colorado took two of three from Washington and won the season series 4-2.Since August 12, the Rockies have won three of five series with the victories coming over the NL East-leading Nationals and the Chicago Cubs, owners of the best record in the majors. Yet those gains were offset by three game sweeps by Philadelphia and Milwaukee.Its weird the way were playing, Arenado said. When we face the good teams, the best teams, we take it to another notch. ... When play bad teams, it feels like we get kind of complacent. We have to change that. Every game counts now for us.Bryce Harper, Trea Turner and Wilson Ramos went deep for Washington.Giolito (0-1) allowed four runs and six hits in five innings. Washington has dropped six of eight.Chad Bettis (11-7) allowed two runs, both on solo homers, and five hits with six strikeouts over seven innings in his longest start since April 10.The right-hander induced Ben Revere into an inning-ending double play with two runners on in the fifth to preserve a 4-1 lead.He used his entire pitch mix well, but especially his changeup, Rockies manager Walt Weiss said of his starter. The double play he got in the fifth was big. That was a game-changer.Adam Ottavino recorded the final three outs for his second save after Harper homered off Boone Logan leading off the ninth.The Nationals officially recalled Giolito from Triple-A Syracuse before the start of Sundays game and sent infielder Wilmer Difo to Double-A Harrisburg. Washingtons top prospect allowed three of the first four batters to reach as Arenados RBI single put Colorado up 1-0.They definitely jumped on the fastball, and when I wasnt able to locate it, they kind of made me pay, Giolitoo said.dddddddddddd.Turner immediately tied it in the bottom of the first with a leadoff homer.In third, Arenados liner cleared the fence in left for a two-run blast and Dahl followed with a drive for a 4-1 lead. All three runs in the third came with two outs.Its that one bad inning that does you in, Nationals manager Dusty Baker said of Giolitos outing. That was the one bad inning.Arenados fifth-inning triple was initially scored a three-base error on Harper misjudged a fly ball hit to sunny right field.The third baseman now has 32 RBI in August. In his last seven games, he is batting .552 (16 for 29) with five homers and 13 RBI. Arenado also two, four-hit games in that stretch.Harper went 1 for 4 a day after he was ejected in the 10th inning of Washingtons 9-4 loss for arguing a called third strike.WILD ONEWashington reliever Koda Glovers wild pitch landed flush on the left shoulder of home plate umpire Mike Muchlinksi in the eighth. As Nationals catcher Ramos simultaneously searched for the ball and checked on the crumpled umpire, Daniel Descalso scored from second base for a 5-2 lead. Muchlinksi remained in the game.AUGUST HEATArenados 32 RBI in August is one shy of the franchise record set by Andres Galarraga in 1996.TRAINERS ROOMRockies: RHP Tyler Chatwood (10-8, 3.75), on the disabled list with a mid-back strain since Aug. 16, will have a rehab start Monday for Double-A Hartford at Richmond. Chatwood is expected to go five innings or about 75 pitches.Nationals: RHP Joe Ross (right shoulder inflammation) allowed one run on three hits in one inning Sunday in his first rehab appearance with Triple-A Syracuse.UP NEXTRockies: Colorado returns home to begin a three-game series against the Dodgers. RHP Jon Gray (8-6, 4.61 gets the nod for the Rockies.Nationals: RHP Tanner Roark (13-7, 2.99 ERA) faces Phillies rookie Jake Thompson (1-3, 9.78) in the first of 22 straight games for Washington against NL East opponents. ' ' '