Cycling Australia coach Martin Barras believes that the British track cycling team will be very difficult to stop in Beijing.
'It's like the house is on fire, and we're just trying to save the furniture.'
Barras is responding to the supremacy of the British team at March's track world championships in Manchester when half of the 18 titles went to home riders.
And this after the 2007 worlds when seven golds were secured by Great Britain.
The idea of such sentiments from an Australian mouth would have been fanciful in 2004 when British cyclists were considered a success having won two Olympic golds. Australia had waltzed home from Athens with six.
In 1997, the year Peter Keen initiated what Moore has called the track cycling revolution, the notion would have been considered laughable.
But 11 years on, it is reality - the rest of the cycling world are fighting for our scraps.
Not all of the 10 events in which British cyclists hold world titles will be contested in Beijing but seven of them will be.
Top of the list of probable heroes are Bradley Wiggins and Chris Hoy.
Wiggins achieved a measure of fame in Athens when he became the first British athlete since Mary Rand in 1964 to win three medals in one Games.
Back then, the Londoner won the individual pursuit, took silver as part of the team pursuit effort and bronze in partnership with Rob Hayles in the Madison.
This year he can be reasonably expected to be contending for gold in all three.
He remains just about untouchable in individual pursuiting where the biggest threat to his chances is probably Australian Brad McGee, whom he beat in the Athens final and who is recovering from a broken collarbone.
Life might be tougher in the team pursuit, where Australia - them again - have traditionally held the upper hand.
However, the world record is British thanks to the efforts of Wiggins, Paul Manning, Ed Clancy and Geraint Thomas in Manchester this spring.
Those four are likely to be the quartet which contests the title race in Beijing, although Hayles and Steve Cummings could come in for the qualifying rounds.
The first-choice foursome are a powerful combination of youth and experience.
On the experienced side is Manning, who has won 12 team pursuit medals from major championships since 2000. On the youthful side, Clancy, 23 has been described as the best team pursuiter in the world while Thomas, 22, already has a Tour de France under his belt.
In the Madison - the two-man tag race first raced at Madison Square Gardens - Wiggins will be partnered by Manxman Mark Cavendish, with whom he won the world championship race.
They make odd-looking couple. Wiggins - lanky, hook-nosed and Anglo-Saxon - can sustain long, elegant efforts at the front of the bunch. Cavendish - stocky, curly-haired and Celtic - is all bustling energy and sprinting power.
Together they make a formidable team, whose biggest worry is being marked too closely by the rest of the field.
Hoy - Britain's other gold-medalist from Athens - has had to rebuild his cycling career as the event which brought him success four years ago was deleted from the Olympic programme in 2005.
Such a setback might have ended the careers of lesser athletes but not Hoy's.
The 32-year-old has simply applied his trademark scientific precision to becoming the world's best keirin rider and, almost as a by-product, the world sprint champion.
Winning both events might be too tall an order for the Scot but in the keirin - invented in Japan where it fuels a multi-billion pound betting industry - most of the clever money will be on him.
Hoy will also contest the team sprint but silver is probably a fair expectation because of the phenomenal form of the French.
Victoria Pendleton has won world titles in three events but, unfairly, women sprint cyclists only have one Olympic event - the sprint.
The 27-year-old is a three-time world champion and, on the one occasion in the last three years she did not win, she took gold at the Commonwealth Games.
Meanwhile, Rebecca Romero will look to add cycling gold - in the individual pursuit - to the rowing silver she won in Athens.
Beyond the velodrome, the British favourites are not as thick on the ground but there remains at least one rider who seems a nailed-on cert to win her event.
BMX phenomenon Shanaze Reade is just 19 and has won both world championships since she advanced to the senior ranks last year.
She also won the test event in Beijing with a performance of such strength, it is difficult to imagine anyone getting near her.
Road racing has proved a difficult nut to crack but Nicole Cooke will travel to Beijing with the best British women's team in a while, although she is perhaps not in the best form herself.
In the men's event, the mountainous course will not suit Cavendish's talents as a sprint finisher so a British medal seems unlikely.
Finally, in mountain-biking, Britain possesses two riders in Liam Killeen and Oli Beckingsale who are capable of podium finishes.
