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The final day at the velodrome for track cycling at the Rio 2016 Olympics will see three more gold medals up for grabs with Great Britain expected to clean up once again. Join The Roar for live coverage and updates from 5am (AEST).
Heading into the final day on the track, Great Britain have dominated proceedings so far winning four of a possible six gold medals so far and another three silvers.
They are expected to complete what will be a domination of the track cycling programme at Rio today, potentially taking gold in all three events that are being decided.
While there are still morning qualifications to come, they hold the prime spot for more medals and barring a major surprise will go into the evening finals as favourite in two of three events.
The Women’s Omnium has already had the scratch race, individual pursuit and elimination race while the time trial will be completed during the morning session, after the time of writing.
After those three events Laura Trott is absolutely dominating having won the individual pursuit and elimination race, while finishing second to Tatsiana Sharakova in the scratch. It leaves her at the top of the standings by a margin of eight points ahead of Jolien D’Hoore of Belgium who has finished one spot behind her in each event.
The flying lap and points race are not necessarily her biggest strengths and so she may need the lead, but she will still finish consistently at the top end of the field.
The Women’s sprint still has the quarter-finals to come, but Rebecca James qualified with the fastest time in an Olympic Record pace. While Zhong Tianshi of China is the world champion she has to face James, and Kristina Vogel of Germany has also displayed some good form overcoming James will be a different challenge all together.
The Men’s Keirin is hard to get a form read on given the Round 1 heats are in the morning session but World Champion Joachim Eilers will once again go in as favourite.
Jason Kenny has demonstrated he is in excellent form while Matthew Glaetzer also has to be in the medal discussion. New Zealand duo Sam Walker and Edward Dawkins will also be disappointed with their Games so far and want to make amends here.
Prediction
James is on fire in the sprints and won’t be beaten, and given the lead for Trott already she won’t be losing the omnium.
The Keirin is always a tough event and tough to predict but Kenny looks strong. In saying that he won’t be favourite with German Joachim Eilers riding strongly so far and being the world champion in the discipline – he should break the stranglehold of Britain.
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