Flight upgrade for GB champions

Britain's Olympic stars have earned an upgrade on their flights back home following the startling success of Team GB in Beijing, BBC Sport understands.

Gold and silver medallists will fly back club class on British Airways when they return from the Games on Sunday.

And multi-gold medallists Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy and Rebecca Adlington get to travel in first class.

British Olympic Association chairman Lord Moynihan has given up his own first-class seat to accommodate Hoy.

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At first, it appeared there were only two first-class seats available for the three athletes - and Hoy was set to miss out on the most luxurious of BA's seating options.

That was until Moynihan gallantly offered the champion Scottish cyclist - a winner of three golds in Beijing to go with a previous gold at Athens in 2004 - his own ticket.

Team GB arrive back at Heathrow on Monday.

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