PURSUITING’S NEW PARADIGM
With the tumbling of world records in the men’s team pursuit at the Track World Championships last month, it is clear to all that the discipline has entered a whole new era of speed.
The Danish team lowered the world record for the men’s four-kilometre pursuit three times in Berlin last month from 3.48.012, set by Australia a year earlier, to 3.44.672 by the end of the World Championships.
It left rival nations all scratching their heads and many further rethinking what is possible in a discipline that’s seen times tumble since the last Olympics. There the British team of Bradley Wiggins, Ed Clancy, Owain Doull and Steven Burke set a World Record of 3.50.265 in the
