Australia's men's sprint cyclists have started life without their track defector Matthew Richardson by winning a world championship team silver medal in Denmark.
On a successful opening night of the championships for the Australian team in Ballerup on Wednesday, the women's trio also took bronze in their team event.
Even without individual triple Olympic medallist Richardson, who caused a post-Paris sensation by announcing he'd be leaving the Australia team to compete for Great Britain, a new-look trio achieved a better result than the team bronze won at the Games.
