Theo Bos returned to the track at the end of last season as a way of changing up his training and improving his sprint. The sojourn onto the boards went so well – he claimed Dutch national titles in the sprint and the kilometre – that he is now about to ride at next month’s UCI Track World Championships in London.
Since his surprise performance at the national championships last November, Bos has gone on to ride the final round of the World Cup in Hong Kong and at the Revolution series in the UK. However, this will be his first opportunity to measure himself against some of his toughest competitors.
“I’m really looking forward to racing in London. I’m really excited,” he told Cyclingnews. “I have no idea where I stand now internationally. For the kilometre, I don’t know what the competition is doing and what I can do. I am curious to see where I stand. Of course, you hope the best but I can only say after the Worlds.”
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Bos is a five-time world champion on the track but it has been eight years since he competed at the World Championships. The most recent of his five titles came in the individual sprint in 2007, when he was still just 23. His recent progress has seen him come close to what he was able to do back in his heydey but he now knows that he will need to improve on that if he wants to achieve what he has set out to in 2016.
“I was already close to my old shape and my old times from 8 years ago. Those times are not fast enough for the moment so I have to make a step from Revolution, which was January 23, until now,” he explained. “I have to make a step to compete internationally. I’m working really hard on that at the moment.
“It is going well and I’m really happy with the progress. I’m excited and I’m looking forward to see where I stand. I think I made a little progress after the Revolution. I don’t know what it is worth at the moment.”
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