Ryde, Rob Arnold, 25 Februari 2015
In November 2013, the UCI held a round of the track cycling World Cup in Aguascalientes in Mexico. It proved to be one of the fastest meets in the history of cycling. World records in the 500m TT and ‘kilo’ were set by Anna Meares and François Pervis, respectively: 32.836 sec and 56.303 sec. The sprint times were phenomenally fast and some endurance athletes also benefitted from the conditions in what is arguably the quickest track in the world. It is to be the site of Thomas Dekker’s hour record attempt today (25 February 2015)… and with this in mind, we thought it an appropriate time to publish an online version of the interview with Meares. She explains the nature of the track and offers her thoughts on why it’s so conducive to fast times…
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