KATIE SAVOURS GOLDEN DOUBLE

KATIE ArchIbAld stepped into the role vacated by her Olympic team-mate laura Kenny with two gold medals at the Manchester Track cycling World cup as Great britain were able to put recent controversies behind them.

having won the madison with team-mate Elinor barker on Saturday, Archibald returned yesterday to lead the women’s team pursuit to the gold medal in a time of 4min 16.803sec, their fastest since rio 2016 and nearly five seconds faster than the runner-up Italians.

Since the last Olympics, Kenny has left to have a child while Jo rowsellShand has retired.

Archibald said: ‘It’s cool to have ended on a high and not just the time we’ve set but the way we’ve ridden it. I didn’t expect it to go that well but we’ve won it by quite a margin.’