Team GB mountain bikers test 2012 course

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Olympic Organising Committee chairman Lord Coe got on a bike at Hadleigh in Essex during a visit to the completed mountain biking course for 2012.

Lord Coe said it would be hard to think of a better backdrop to any Olympic venue he had seen anywhere in the world.

The course was completed on time and on budget. Gareth George reports.

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