This summer, the Spanish have already won the European Cup in soccer, Wimbledon and the Tour de France, and today Samuel Sanchez added the gold medal in the men's cycling road race. On a brutally hot and smoggy day in Beijing, Sanchez took advantage of a tremendous performance by the entire Spanish team and capped it off with a strong charge up the final climb to sieze the first cycling gold medal of this olympiad.Spain had sent a cycling "Dream Team" to these Olympics with superstars Carlos Sastre, Alejandro Valverde, Alberto Contador along with Sanchez, and it paid off with one of the best examples of organized teamwork you will ever see from a national team. Sastre and Contador are the last two winners of the Tour de France, and yet there they were in Beijing putting in the tough work of domestiques for Valverde and Sanchez, a remarkable sight. When they managed to get Sanchez into the final break move, he rewarded their hard work with a perfectly timed sprint to seize the gold.
