‘It’s on the up’ – Olympic silver gives GB hope of return to males’s sprint glory days

Twenty-year-old Ed Lowe had certainly not been to a championship event sooner than he raced inside the males’s group sprint on the Paris Olympics, and gained a silver medal. 

The youngest member of the trio – by 5 years – he was solely launched onto the elite programme inside British Biking 10 months prior to now. On the time of the ultimate Olympics, he was nonetheless racing inside the junior ranks, with Paris barely a dream in his ideas.