Team GB and Team USA already have a slew of medals under their belt, but as these adorable photographs show, each and every one of our Olympians had to start somewhere.

Britain's most decorated female Olympian Laura Trott, 24, slept with her gold medal after her volodrome heroics last night in Rio and found it this morning to realise it wasn't all just a dream.

Their haul of medals makes them equals on the bike, but off the track it is a different story for British cycling’s golden couple Jason Kenny and Laura Trott - at least when it comes to money.

MATT LAWTON IN RIO: Trott moved a step closer to reducing the gap between herself and her fiance in the gold-medal count, leading the women's omnium after day one.

When Laura Trott, and her fiancé Jason Kenny, step on the plane back from Rio this week, they'll bring with them a record-breaking five gold medals to their Cheshire home.

MATT LAWTON IN RIO: Little more than an hour after Trott, re-established herself as Great Britain’s most successful female Olympian, Kenny stood shoulder to shoulder with Sir Chris Hoy.

Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain today, Emma Trott, the older sister of four-time Olympic gold medallist Laura seemed underwhelmed by her 24-year-old sibling’s achievements.

The sister of Olympian Laura Trott has stood by her comments that saw her branded 'bitter' and 'jealous' of her sibling's success, insisting the backlash was 'a lot of fuss made over nothing'.

It has been a memorable week for Team GB at the Rio Olympics after they took their golden tally to 24 with 58 medals overall with stellar performances from the likes of Laura Trott and Jason Kenny.

Over the last two weeks the Olympics have provided moments of brilliance, joy and excitement across 28 sports in Rio. Sportsmail brings you the best 50 images from the games...

MARTIN SAMUEL: Towards land they came, the two British sailors on a furious course. The official Olympic event commentators were quite unnerved by this sight.

MARTHA KELNER: After winning Wimbledon, Olympic gold and becoming world No 1, Murray could make history again by becoming the first person to win the SPOTY trophy three times.

The Scot won his second Wimbledon title, took gold at the Olympic Games in Rio in August and achieved world No 1 status for the first time while also becoming a father.

Real Madrid and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo has had his sensational 2016 recognised once again after being nominated for Laureus World Sportsman of the Year.

For Katie Archibald, what happened next was foremost in her mind even before her dream summer at the Rio Olympics. Four national gold medals recently suggest she needn't have worried.

Great Britain claimed their first gold medal of the 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships with victory in the men's team pursuit on Thursday.

Laura Kenny's dream of winning three gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics is in doubt after she was declared only fit enough to race in one event at next week's track cycling World Championships. 

EXCLUSIVE: The elite French police officer spoke of his despair after the death of seven-year-old hero dog Diesel in Paris last month, a victim of a dramatic shoot-out with holed up ISIS terrorists.

Paris Hilton was seen wiping away a tear as she visited the Bataclan theatre in the French capital to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the terror attack almost a month ago.

A security guard at the United Nations in Geneva told said Swiss authorities were searching for 'four guys' believed to be in the area.

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton has learned the hard way that even the best intentions can be woefully misconstrued. She made a sombre visit to France's capital this week to pay her respects.

The Prime Minister will also demand more extensive sharing of ballistics data and action to take more firearms out of circulation in the Western Balkans.

A eyewitness said they saw Abdelhamid Abaaoud standing in a doorway shouting down his phone for around an hour on November 13 - the night 90 people were slaughtered in Paris's Bataclan theatre.

Screenwriter and producer Alex Gansa has shed light on the source of some of the eerie similarities between the tragic real-life events of recent months, specifically the Paris attacks.

ISIS (left) has released propaganda videos threatening to invade Rome and Pope Francis is considered a specific target. But the pontiff (pictured right) says he's 'not afraid'.

Michael O'Connor, 30, from South Shields, who survived the terror attack on the Bataclan theatre in Paris last month, claims he must wait three months to speak to a counsellor on the NHS in Britain.

Police stopped the most wanted terrorist in Europe three times a few hours after the Paris attacks - but he was let free every time, it emerged today. Salah Abdeslam remains at large after evading police.

More than 250 mourners attended the funeral of Nick Alexander at St Andrew's Parish Church in Weeley, near Colchester, Essex, today following his death at the Bataclan concert hall last month.

ISIS fighters inside the Bataclan theatre were heard shouting 'Where's the singer? Where are the Yanks?' just moments after the Eagles of Death Metal band had fled the stage, before the slaughter.

Charaffe al Mouadan, a French Syrian-based ISIS leader with 'direct link' to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man behind the Paris attacks was killed in an air strike on Christmas Eve.

Six more people have been detained over an alleged plot to strike Brussels. Two other men have already been formally charged with terrorism-related offences.

The French official said the 2015 attacks in Paris 'was nothing', and that terrorists are planning 'simultaneous attacks on the same day in several countries, several places' in Europe in the next year.

CCTV footage shows Salah Abdeslam and his friend Hamza Attou, who later admitted they had spent the morning smoking marijuana, near the Belgian border on November 14.

EXCLUSIVE: Every single window at Old Trafford is being covered in clear anti-shatter film to protect players, staff and fans in the event of an explosion in or around the ground.

ISIS have released a barbaric propaganda video showing the Paris attackers beheading prisoners and training with weapons before they carried out the city massacre which left 130 people dead.

The Belgian Shepherd was killed as police stormed a flat in Paris, France, on November 18 - three days after ISIS extremists had murdered 130 people in the city.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud's behavior after the carnage on November 13 will be of concern to those allowing thousands of foreign down-and-outs, including many Roma gypsies, into Paris.

The unnamed senior European counterterrorism source also revealed that intelligence agencies are concerned ISIS may attempt a an even more ambitious attack in the coming months.

They not only killed Diesel, a seven-year-old Belgian Shepherd, but wounded innocent neighbours and threatened at least five other policemen with their reckless shooting during the Paris gun battle.

Investigators probing last year's terror attacks in Paris have found footage of a senior Belgian nuclear official shot outside a house in Flanders, indicating that the terrorist were spying on them.

They've been nominated for the International Group BRIT Award and Eagles Of Death Metal singer Jesse Hughes looked thrilled to be at the event at London's 02 arena on Wednesday night.

Nick Alexander, from Weeley, Essex, was killed alongside 88 others at the Bataclan during a series of co-ordinated terror attacks in Paris in November. An inquest will be held at 'the end of May'.

Hughes said he was suspicious of the behaviour of guards at the Paris venue ahead of the band's concert on November 13 during which ISIS terrorists massacred 89 music fans.

Jesse Hughes (pictured), 43, was playing at the Bataclan with his band when terrorists stormed the concert hall in a series of attacks that left 130 dead on November 13 last year.

Apple and other tech companies have been accused of not doing enough to help French security services access two phones which belonged to suicide bombers from the Paris attacks.

The explosions come just a day after the Belgium Interior Minister warned of possible revenge attacks after the arrest of Paris massacre suspect Salah Abdeslam in the city last week.

The group unveiled its so-called 'Op Brussels' today in which it vowed to continue 'hacking their websites, shutting down their Twitter accounts and stealing their Bitcoins'

French national Reda Kriket has been charged with membership of a terror organisation, after police discovered a cache of assault rifles, handguns and explosives at his home in Paris.

Muhammad Ghani Usman (pictured), linked to the Mumbai attacks that killed 164 people, and suspected Algerian Isis fighter Adel Haddadi were detained at a refugee centre near Salzburg, Austria.

Having terrified the world with its fierce initial momentum, Islamic State briefly consolidated its sprawling caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria. Two years on, how have things changed?