British women’s sprint squad breaks world record, wins gold in track cycling at the Paris Olympics
Associated PressMONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France — Track cyclists from Britain have become accustomed to standing on the top step of the podium at the Olympics. “It takes a world record to become an Olympic champion.” The two fastest winning teams from head-to-head heats advanced to race for gold. In other events on the opening night of track cycling, the defending champion Dutch men’s sprint team of Roy van den Berg, Harrie Lavreysen and Jeffrey Hoogland broke their own Olympic record with a time of 41.279 seconds in qualifying. In the men’s team pursuit, the British squad that had its streak of three consecutive Olympic gold medals stopped by Italy and Denmark at the Tokyo Games sent a warning shot toward their biggest rivals in qualifying. The only team to surpass them were the Australians, who surprisingly led qualifying in 3:42.958 — not far off Italy’s world record set in Tokyo.
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