{"id":221242,"date":"2025-10-23T21:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/221242\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T21:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:57:14","slug":"track-cycling-world-championships-2025-live-follow-live-coverage-of-day-two-from-santiago-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/221242\/","title":{"rendered":"Track Cycling World Championships 2025 LIVE: Follow live coverage of Day Two from Santiago, Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who are the British athletes to look out for?published at 09:42 BST<\/p>\n<p>09:42 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753567692_302_c4e98d84-f6d4-49ef-bfc4-9da246773705.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>BBC Sport<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Britain's Emma Finucane celebrates after wining the Women's Sprint - Finals of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8b5bb242-b2bb-4d51-b087-1f979e7d65b0.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Katie Archibald will once again lead Great Britain&#8217;s elite women in the madison and elimination races, while Olympic gold medallist Emma Finucane will be on the hunt for further sprint success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Finucane is the defending champion in the women&#8217;s sprint, beating Dutch rider Hetty van de Wouw to gold last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain are also defending champions in the women&#8217;s team sprint, which features Sophie Capewell and Katy Marchant alongside Finucane. The trio, who were crowned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/cj355n3n521o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olympic champions<\/a> in Paris, dominated the event at last year&#8217;s Championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Great Britain&#8217;s men will be looking to get the better of the Netherlands this time out after missing out on sprint team bronze in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew Richardson will line up in Great Britain colours for the first time, having won three medals for Australia at the Paris Olympics before switching nationalities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michael Gill and Josh Charlton will also be aiming for the individual pursuit gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who are the British athletes to look out for?published at 09:42 BST 09:42 BST BBC Sport Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-221242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}