
Start as you mean to go on, they say, and this was quite some start.
On opening night here in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Britain’s track cyclists wasted no time in striking gold, the women’s team sprint trio of Katy Marchant, Sophie Capewell and the much-hyped Emma Finucane breaking the world record three times in as many hours en route to the podium’s top step.