Racing and a team update

Racing started out with a bang on the first day of racing for us kiwi's. We had two amazing teams who gained a bronze and Hayden who worked for the majority of the men's scratch race in a break and ended up in 4th place. The boys team pursuit team qualified 3rd to go to the ride off for bronze where they beat Germany who last year beat them in exactly the same situation, and the team sprint girls won their ride off for bronze.

The boys getting their bronze medals.

The second day was us girls turn to take to the track. It was qualifying in the morning where we managed to get 3rd, just 0.300 of a second ahead of the Italians. We worked hard together but felt like we had more that we could give in the afternoons session, so we had a few plan changes that we came up with. Then in the final after one false start we were away we started down on the Italian team and although we bridged the gap the race finished just one lap to early for us to be able to beat them so they took the bronze with us in fourth just half a second behind. The Australians who qualified in second position managed to beat the Russians and their home advantage to win them selves another title. Understandably we were disappointed with our placing being so close to a medal but it has made us all even more hungry for the podium and like they say there is always next year and there is still many more races to come.

Cassie, Georgia and me working our way into the TP

Sophie had her points race last night where she had a superb ride and managed to pick up the third of New Zealand's bronze medals. She rode a smart race and remained calm through the race despite a few crashes (which she wasn't in). An Italian rider had a great ride, taking a lap from the field to get herself 20 points and the gold and it was a Mexican who took out the sliver.
Alex also raced the kilo last night finishing in 11th place.
Steph quailfied 1st in the sprints just 0.011seconds of the junior world record and has made her way to the quarter finals which are on tonight along with the final.
Up tonight along with Steph we have Sophie and Dylan in the omnium and Cassie racing the scratch. So it should be a good nights racing with hopefully more medals to come.