Sign up for The Torch to receive email updates about all things Olympics - from Team GB and beyond Laura Kenny and Great Britain saw their women’s team pursuit world record fall at the first possible moment but remain confident they can reel in resurgent Germany.
Kenny, Elinor Barker and Katie Archibald - joined by youngster Josie Knight - watched the 4:10.236 record they set in winning gold at Rio 2016 broken by the Germans in qualifying.
Franziska Brausse, Lisa Brennauer, Lisa Klein and Mieke Kroeger smashed it by nearly three seconds with 4:07.307 at the first time of asking.
But the British quartet dipped under their original mark with a clocking of 4:09.022 and Barker was encouraged by a first blast on the boards in Japan. “We knew
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