Team GB bosses confident of golden Tokyo games

Preparations already under way to go big in Japan

- Richard Abraham

After an Olympic Games where Team GB’s success exceeded all expectations, the team’s track bosses are confident of continuing the country’s dominance in the velodrome into the next Olympics in Tokyo.

Every British rider that took to the boards in Rio won a medal, with golden couple Laura Trott and Jason Kenny rounding off Britain’s dominant six days in the Rio Olympic Velodrome with their second and third of the Games respectively.

Cyclists won six golds, four silvers and two bronze, accounting for 18 per cent of Britain’s tally of 67 medals.

Six golds in Rio was one less than London and two less than Beijing but with its Tokyo strategy submitted to UK Sport and the promise of continued lottery funding thanks to the success in Rio, bosses at British Cycling are optimistic ahead of the next Olympic cycle.