Canada claims first-ever World Cup men's team pursuit gold

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Adam Jamieson, Aidan Caves, Jay Lamoureux and Bayley Simpson of Canada celebrate winning the Men's Team Pursuit F𒐪inal

Team Canada claimed it's first-ever World Cup team pursuit gold medal 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Saturday in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, coming from behind in the final round to beat Belgium into silv𒀰er by more than four seconds. Canada also now moves into the World Cup overall lead after finishiཧng third in the first round.

"We've got five guys here who can execute, so we are using everyone to have some fresh legs for each ride," Simpson said. "This was my first trip with the team, and the first ride I got to do was in Glasgow for the bronze medal. It was nerve-wracking but we executed it that day and then we were able to come here and do it again. I can't even put it into words, really. The time was good; we looked at the past times here when the world 🦩championships were here in 2011 and the winning team was a high 4:01, so we are pretty happy with our time."

"It's actually been a pretty crazy month since Nationals, probably one of the best ever," he said. "We were aware that [Belgium] were probably going to go out hot, but we didn't panic, because we all knew that we were the stronger team. We knew that if we stayed strong that we have consistently had a faster final Kilo than most of the other teams, so that's what we focusse🅘d on; to come back from the little bit they were up on us. It worked out pretty well to plan."