Evans and Georgi still recovering from madison madness

By Will Jennings in Munich Neah Evans and Pfeiffer Georgi admit nothing could have prepared them for an hour of madison madness in Munich. Ad Scottish star Evans, 32, joined forces with Georgi, 21, for the final women's cycling event at the multi-sport European Championships and missed out on a medal by the skin of her teeth. Cycling‘I’m super happy to be racing again’ – Bernal on return to cycling2 HOURS AGO The duo, competing together for the first time in the event, finished fourth behind Denmark as a slender two-point margin denied them a place on the podium.

The madison is a unique, idiosyncratic and action-packed event that sees riders compete as a pair and swap in and out bidding to gain laps on their opponents. Evans and Georgi finished behind Italy, France and Denmark on Tuesday but reckon they've learned a lifetime's worth of lessons from a chaotic encounter in Germany. Evans, a team pursuit Olympic silver medallist in Tokyo last summer, said: «We've never done the madison before we got here.

»There were a lot of new learnings and in the madison, even when you do loads of training together, there's nothing quite like a race. «Even when you're resting, there's just so much going on the whole time and there's riders all over the place. »So to come in to a race having so little experience together was going to be a huge ask.

«We put in a really good effort — there were a lot of strong pairings today and it wasn't quite enough for a medal. »But we gave it everything we've done to be here — it was a really solid performance and we've got to be happy with that." British Cycling have experienced a turbulent week in Munich involving multiple medals but even more near misses. The men's team pursuit and sprint stars