‘We always just stick with 200 psi’ – Behind the now-extinct tyres used to break the Olympic and World Team Sprint records

The Netherlands roared to an Olympic men’s Team Sprint victory last night and scored a new World and Olympic record of 40.949 seconds for the three-lap sprint event along the way.

The collective firepower of Roy van den Berg, Harrie Lavreysen, and Jeffrey Hoogland who have been dominant in sprint events over the past several years was too much for silver medal winners Ed Lowe, Hamish Turnbull and Jack Carlin of Team GB.