Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Cycling News
Cycling News
Sport
Tom Wieckowski

'We always just stick with 200 psi' - Behind the now-extinct tyres used to break the Olympic and World Team Sprint records

The Dutch men's Olympic team sprinters .

The Netherlands roared to an Olympic men's Team Sprint victory last night and scored a new World and Olympic record of 40.949 seconds for the three-lap sprint event along the way.

The collective firepower of Roy van den Berg, Harrie Lavreysen, and Jeffrey Hoogland who have been dominant in sprint events over the past several years was too much for silver medal winners Ed Lowe, Hamish Turnbull and Jack Carlin of Team GB.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.