Team GB’s sprinters took a hard-fought silver medal in the Olympic velodrome, but were unable to prevent Harrie Lavreysen leading the Netherlands to the men’s team sprint title
Netherlands break world record to seal gold in velodromeTeam GB’s sprinters took a hard-fought silver medal in the Olympic Velodrome, but were unable to prevent Harrie Lavreysen leading the Netherlands to the men’s team sprint title with a world record time.
Carlin was first to acknowledge the scale of Team GB’s achievement against the world’s best sprint team. “As a team, we came and delivered,” he said, before adding that silver was “probably the best we could have done on the day”. “We could really enjoy it, soak up the crowd and show everyone what we could do without really any pressure on our backs.”But taking silver did not tell the whole story. Carlin’s presence in Paris had been threatened by injury. The 27-year-old broke his ankle in April, when one of the cranks on his bike snapped, and faced a race against time to get fit enough for Paris.
But the scale of their task was quickly evident, as the Dutch, spearheaded by Lavreysen, broke the world record for the first time, beating Canada, with a time of 41.191.Carlin, who won silver and bronze medals in Tokyo, had already appeared on the podium in the Olympic Velodrome, in 2016, when he won silver in the team sprint in the European championships, with Ryan Owens and Joseph Truman.
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