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Northampton gatecrashed Bristols Aviva Premiership homecoming after three first-half tries set up a comfortable victory at Ashton Gate.George North, number eight Louis Picamoles and Norths fellow wing Ken Pisi all breached Bristols defence during a dominant spell as the west country clubs first Premiership home fixture since 2009 ended in a 32-10 defeat.Saints could even afford to see their England captain Dylan Hartley go off at half-time - it was not immediately clear whether or not he had suffered an injury - and still emerge victorious, with fly-half Stephen Myler kicking two penalties and two conversions and Hartleys replacement Mike Haywood claiming a bonus point-clinching injury-time try that Harry Mallinder converted.Bristol enjoyed a far stronger second-half performance after being brushed aside during the opening 40 minutes, with Ross McMillan touching down and fly-half Tusi Pisi adding a conversion to en earlier penalty, but life is not about to get any easier for them, as their next three games are against Wasps, Exeter and Saracens.Bristol were without Wales international centre Gavin Henson due to a leg injury, so Ben Mosses partnered Will Hurrell in midfield and there was also a call-up for lock Ian Evans. Saints Wales star North, meanwhile, made his first start of the season, with Myler replacing Mallinder.And Northampton enjoyed a flying start, taking an eight-point lead in as many minutes after Myler kicked a penalty and North finished off a slick move that included an impressive defence-splitting pass from Hartley, before Tusi Pisi opened Bristols account with an angled penalty.Bristol, despite the optimism generated by a narrow bonus defeat against Harlequins last weekend, then conceded 17 points in six minutes as Northampton stormed clear, albeit helped by a controversial decision.Referee Craig Maxwell-Keys needed assistance from television match official Graham Hughes before awarding Picamoles a close-range try, but Maxwell-Keys then appeared to get it horribly wrong as Ken Pisi skipped outside Tom Varndells weak challenge and sprinted over, despite looking to have a foot in touch.Another Myler conversion, added to an earlier penalty, meant that Saints led 25-3 and were within sight of a try-scoring bonus point as Bristol battled to cope with the demands of the Premiership following seven years out of English rugbys top flight.Bristol had to absorb further pressure before half-time, yet Saints should have reached 30 points, but Hartley lost possession as he dived over Bristols line following a lineout surge.Bristol, though, had all it to do, trailing by 22 points at the interval and having shown no obvious sign of finding a way back into the contest.Hartley did not reappear for the second period, being replaced by Haywood, before Mallinder went on for George Pisi in midfield as Saints looked to reassert their control and territorial dominance.But Bristol struck first in the second half, capitalising on a strong run by Mosses as former Northampton forward McMillan barged over Saints line for a try that Tusi Pisi converted to give the home side a glimmer of hope.That was as good as it got for Bristol, though, with North going close to posting his second try before Bristol withstood late pressure until Haywood crashed over and Mallinder converted as Saints bounced back after last weekends home defeat against Bath.Balenciaga Speed Trainer Black Sale . 9. 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PETERSBURG, Fla.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 Purnnell, the Cambridge professor who heads up British Cyclings Research and Innovation department.dddddddddddd. 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. Now the devil is in the detail. The marginal gains have never been more marginal and aggregating that together has never been more important. ' ' '