In the end there was no fairytale finish for Great Britain. Perhaps it was being greedy to expect a tenth gold medal.
Victoria Pendleton was edged into second place by USA's Jennie Reed in the final event of the World Track Championships, the women's Keirin.
But it was not to be and so Britain's medal total finishes at nine golds and two silvers from the 18 events in a phenomenal week of racing. They top the table by a mile and will go to Beijing for the Olympics this summer as the track team to beat.
The last time the championships were held at Manchester, in 2000, British fans thought they'd witnessed a successful championships.
That was when the Lottery funding and Peter Keen's vision for the World Class Performance Plan was first felt. Eight years on Britain sits at the top of the tree.
Not only that, but Great Britain's class of 2008 must be considered the most successful track cycling team of all-time.
In the day's other events, Dutch riders Eleonora Van Dijk won the women's scratch race, Teun Mulder took the men's kilometre and Hayden Godfrey of New Zealand won the men's omnium.
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