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What a day Sunday was for Team GB. Five golds -- and another all but confirmed after Giles Scott took an unassailable lead in the sailing -- were complemented by three silvers.Here is all you need to know about our heroes from Sunday:?GoldEvent: Tennis -- mens singlesName:?Andy MurrayAge:?29Hometown: DunblaneImpress your friends:?Since being knocked out of the Monte-Carlo Masters semifinals by Rafael Nadal in April, Murray has reached the final of every tournament hes played in. Novak Djokovic, in the finals of the Madrid and French Opens, is the only man to have beaten him in that period. On Sunday, Murray became the first tennis player to defend a singles gold medal.Click here for moreEvent: Golf -- mens?Names:?Justin RoseAge: 36Hometown: FleetImpress your friends:?Rose, the biggest cheerleader of golfs return to the Games, hit the first ever Olympics hole-in-one at the par-3 fourth hole during Thursdays first round. For the golf geeks, it was 189 yards with a 7-iron.Click here for moreEvent:?Gymnastics -- mens floor and mens pommel horseName:?Max WhitlockAge: 23Hometown: Hemel HempsteadImpress your friends:?Whitlock has had some Games. On Wednesday he won bronze in the all-around gymnastics, Team GBs first medal in the event for 108 years. Then on Sunday he won gold on the floor -- Britains first gymnast to win individual gold -- then again on the pommel horse barely two hours later. Whats that saying about buses...?Click here for moreEvent: Cycling -- mens sprintName: Jason KennyAge: 28Hometown:?BoltonImpress your friends: Now a five-time Olympic champion (and counting), Kenny is engaged to fellow cyclist Laura Trott, a three-time Olympic champion (and counting). The pair will wed in 2017.Click here for moreSilverEvent: Gymnastics - mens pommel horseName:?Louis SmithAge:?27Hometowns:?PeterboroughImpress your friends:?Smith has many ventures away from gymnastics. In an attempt to launch a singing career, Smith unsuccessfully auditioned for The X Factor in 2008. He then took part in the 2012 edition of Strictly Come Dancing and won alongside dance partner Flavia Cacace. When he retires, Smith plans to launch a television career as well as his own clothing label.Click here for moreEvent: Sailing -- mens RS:XName:?Nick DempseyAge: 36 ?Hometown:?NorwichImpress your friends: Now retired,?Dempsey also won silver in the RS:X in 2012 as well as bronze in the mistral in 2012. He is married to two-time gold medallist Sarah Ayton. The couple live in Weymouth.Click here for moreEvent:?Cycling -- mens sprintName: Callum SkinnerAge: 23Hometown: GlasgowImpress your friends:?Dubbed the next Chris Hoy, Skinner was inspired to take up cycling after watching his fellow Scotsman win gold in Athens in 2004. 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Chris Froome said he had no regrets so often, as he contemplated his bronze-medal finish in the Olympic cycling time trial, it was as if he was trying to convince himself.Not long before, a couple of hundred meters from the finish line, he had shaken his head and looked the picture of disappointment.But it was hard not to admire Froome for his determination to present a brave face after an achievement that would have made most ordinary athletes ecstatic. He even disputed the claim from British Cycling programmes director Andy Harrison that Froome had been suffering from a tight chest.I gave it everything I had, the three-time Tour de France winner said. I was absolutely dead by the finish line. [Winner] Fabian Cancellara was clearly the strongest guy on the road, so congratulations to him.At the end of the day, its been an amazing summer. I wanted to come here and try to back it up. A second medal is pretty special.Froome, 31, took bronze in this event in London four years ago, when British compatriot Bradley Wiggins was the gold-medal winner.The more colourful of the two characters sat on a throne at Hampton Court Palace to celebrate finishing first then, but that sort of thing wouldnt have been Froomes style whatever had happened on Wednesday.He is a quietly spoken, reserved type of guy, the sort of character who thanks his family for hanging in there with him during the time he has spent away, committed to his sport, an athlete who planned to rise early a day after the time trial to fit in a five- or six-hour training ride before leaving Brazil.I want to keep the body ticking over. I have not done any big training rides since I left the Tour, Froome explained.If there was a criticism that could be levelled at the British rider, it was that he spread himself too thinly at these Games. Froome gave his all in the road race last Saturday, and even when it looked like he would come up short, he refused to relax in the saddle.He knew beforehand, too, that the hilly course would make it tough for him to win, and the time trial had seemed the better bet anyway, given how well he had performed in the equivaalent Tour stage.dddddddddddd.Whether it was overconfidence, a sense of duty or his competitive spirit -- another of his admirable qualities -- it wasnt the smartest approach.[There were only] three days between the road race and time trial, Froome said after finishing 1 minute, 2.12 seconds behind Cancellara. I gave it everything in the road, I emptied myself there -- both events. Its not in my nature to try and sit up. I was here to give it everything.Froome proved with his effort how highly he values the Olympics, but as is also the case for golfers and tennis players, the Games do not offer the biggest prize in his sport.The top target for road cyclists, nearly every time, will be the Tour de France, and Cancellara, who pulled out of that early this year to focus on the Olympics, was an exception who proved the rule.Did that give the Swiss a crucial advantage? Potentially, it could have, Froome said. He was stronger than everybody else. Even in the road race, he was going really well. Tom Dumoulin [who took silver], potentially, he dropped out of the Tour with injury. He bounced back pretty well.Its one of the challenges in the cycling world. Given how big the Tour is, that has to stay my No. 1 priority for now.It has been an amazing season, to have won the Tour for a third time, and still come here and medal.Froomes asthma may also have handed his rivals an advantage, with Harrison hinting he had been struggling with a related problem for several days in the buildup to the race.Froome, however, refused to give any excuses for missing out on a hoped-for gold. Its been fine the last few days, he insisted.Hopefully, Ive got another Olympics in me. I know some people may see a bronze as a disappointment, but Im extremely happy to have medalled again.The time for Froome to mentally move on, once his role as a competitor in the Games ended, came pretty quickly. Processing any disappointment as fast as he appeared to left absolutely no room for regrets. Luckily, as he said, he didnt have any. 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