Olympic cycling coach Dan Hunt, who helped his women's team to two gold medals, is putting his feet up after two weeks of glory in Beijing.

Hunt, 31, of Curzon Park, Calne, coached cyclists Nicole Cooke, Rebecca Romero, Wendy Houven-aghel and Emma Pooley to their Olympic success.

The 31-year-old, who has been working with the team for three years, said: It has been an absolutely amazing experience. When the results came in it was brilliant. Watching the women picking up their medals was great, it is the accumulation of so much hard work and was a very proud moment.

Although the job seems quite glamorous it is pretty mundane at times. As well as physically training the cyclists we have to deal with the anxiety the athletes face as the race becomes closer.'' Cooke won gold in the road race, Great Britain's first of the games. Romero became the first British woman to win Olympic medals in two sports -rowing and cycling.

Pooley rode the race of her life to win a bronze medal in the women's time-trial and Houvenaghel won silver in the 3000m individual pursuit final on Sunday.

Hunt, who is married to Pamela and will be working with the cycling team for the 2012 Olympics and the Commonwealth games, lives in Manchester during the week to train.

He said life in China had been equally as gruelling.

In a typical training day in Beijing we would get up around 7. 30am, eat then go to the track to practice,'' he said.

Then we would come back and eat again and there might be a second training session or some physio. In the evening we would just be resting and storing up energy for the race.

We didn't really have time to sightsee or relax, it was all work.

Because this is such a fantastic opportunity everyone is focused on doing the job well.

I had the time of my life but it was brilliant to come home.''