Archibald eyes golden horizon in Los Angeles

LONDON :In the high-octane world of track cycling Katie Archibald has reached the age at which riders usually consider hanging up their race helmets, but the 31-year-old Scot is already mapping out her path to glory in Los Angeles in 2028.

In the week that fellow Scot Jack Carlin called time on his track cycling career, aged 28, Archibald was preparing to fly off to Chile as part of the British squad for the UCI track cycling championships in Santiago starting next week.

She will take part in the elimination race and the Madison alongside Maddie Leech, but will not be in the team pursuit squad, although that is the discipline that she concedes she is still 'obsessed with greatness' in.

Archibald, who is now coached by her brother John, missed the Paris Olympics after falling in her garden and breaking two bones in her leg and tearing ligaments weeks before.

That deprived her of the chance to add a third Olympic gold medal to the team pursuit and Madison titles she earned in 2016 and 2020. She returned this time last year to win her sixth world title in Denmark, in the team pursuit, and is now fixated on the path to Los Angeles, beginning in Santiago.

"I do now feel very settled, very motivated, and like I've really found something that, I don't necessarily think will come out in this worlds," Archibald, who also has a record 20 European titles, told reporters on a conference call.

"It feels like a slightly perverse thing to say, but the sense of structure that I've found - working with my brother, I'm based up in Glasgow these days - and I have this imagined future that if things keep going as well as they're going, my career's fine after all.

"I've got a nice imagined future on the horizon, which in a sense starts with this