Owain Doull is convinced that Great Britain can set a new world record in the team pursuit at the 2016 Rio Olympics despite a poor result at the recent World Cup in Cali, Colombia.
The young Welsh rider is part of Team Wiggins and talked about the emotions of sharing a room with his team captain during the Tour of Britain in his latest blog on Skysports.com.
Doull is currently in Tenerife for a Great Britain training camp and revealed that Mark Cavendish is also with the squad as they prepare for the winter season and especially the track World Championships in London in March. Cavendish is keen to fight for a place in the Great Britain team pursuit squad and perhaps ride the multi-discipline Omnium event in Rio.
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Doull said that Cavendish had “blended in seamlessly and is just one of the lads. The team bond is really strong and he has only added to it.”
Great Britain won gold in the European track championships but then failed to qualify for the medal finals in Cali, Colombia. However Doull found solace in the team's world-class time in the ride-off for fifth place.
“The first phase of the 2015/16 track cycling season is now over and it’s fair to say we’ve had a couple of ups and downs in the men’s team pursuit,” Doull said.
“There's no escaping it: finishing fifth was a disappointment. However, if you look closely at our performances and results, it's easy to see where we went wrong and realise that, despite the outcome, we were possibly the fastest team there,” he explained.
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