Ed Clancy not worried about poor World Championship showing
BySportsbeat
Updated 04/03/2015 at 12:35 GMT
While Britain's cyclists might have come away from Paris' World Track Championships without a gold medal to their name, Ed Clancy insists he is not overly worried, with the bigger picture his main priority.
Ed Clancy, Olympic Velodrome (Reuters)
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For the first time since 2001, the squad failed to bring home gold – instead ending the Championships with three silver medals to their name.
With the Olympics edging ever closer Britain's failures in the French capital do not bode well for their bid to retain their status as the world's dominant track nation.
But Clancy remains calm ahead of Rio and doesn't believe last month's championships will have any bearing on what happens in Brazil.
"It's an Olympic programme, as much as we'd enjoy picking up a load of gold medals, it's not really that important," said Clancy who is gearing up for next month’s Good Friday Meeting.
"Of course we want to win, but the whole squad not getting a gold, that's probably something management and the coaches are more concerned about than I am.
"I just look at what I'm doing and focus on what I'm trying to achieve and that went all right.
"We're making good progress, but we've got to keep making it. We can take confidence from that."
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