two bronze medals in Birmingham<\/a> four years ago but has since won 16 medals at the Olympics, World and European Championships.<\/p>\nThe Welsh star says she is targeting “the top step” on the podium in Glasgow. <\/p>\n
“I haven’t actually stood on the top step at the Commonwealth Games,” Finucane told BBC Sport Wales.<\/p>\n
“That’s something I’d love to achieve this time round.<\/p>\n
“I feel like I’m a different person four years on and I can’t wait to show what I can do on the track.”<\/p>\n
The Carmarthenshire native credits the Birmingham 2022 Games as the “springboard” to where she is today.<\/p>\n
“I would not be where I am today without the Commonwealth Games,” she said.<\/p>\n
“The first time I was pretty young, pretty naive to the sport of sprint cycling. <\/p>\n
“It was a very overwhelming experience, whereas this time round I feel like I’m more of an established rider.” <\/p>\n
She added: “I was 19 [in Birmingham] and the year after I won my first world title, which was crazy for me.<\/p>\n
“I think it gave me the confidence I needed as an athlete to develop in my career, and get to where I am so quickly.<\/p>\n
“We became Olympic champions two years ago, and I actually don’t even know how that happened.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic champion cyclist Emma Finucane insists she has “nothing to prove” at the Commonwealth Games despite her ambitions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-835430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}