Im Chae-bin, the dominant rider in Korean keirin, was beaten today for only the second time this year. His main rival, Jeong Jong-Jin (in black) held on for the win in the Special Final at Gwangmyeong.

Can Sato retain the rainbow jersey, and defend the world title in Japan's signature cycling event? She is just one ride away! #Santiago2025 📷 swpix

Yes, Nakazawa clearly down on the blue, to get round the wall in front of her. Allowed in Japan, but you can't do that under UCI rules. #Santiago2025

HE'S DONE IT AGAIN?! Image on Emma Finucane's Instagram story a few mins ago suggests Matthew Richardson has just done 8.857, beating yesterday's new flying 200 world record! Not yet clear whether it's all official...

The official timing website has finally updated, so we guess that's confirmed: Matthew Richardson 🇬🇧 is the first man to go under 9 seconds for the flying 200 metres! He records a time of 8.941 in Konya today, beating Lavreysen's previous record of 9.088.

News today of a Super-League for British road racing, apparently driven by Rapha but with the endorsement of British Cycling.

Not to be confused with the Lloyds (Bank) Track Super League mentioned in British Cycling's recent strategy document.

Is that a different angle of Richardson's invalid flying 200 at Konya, slipped into Harry Ledingham-Horn's latest vlog? youtu.be/u9zi6rsK9QQ?...

Result of the IOC vote for its next president: Coventry ran away with it. Only 4 votes for UCI's Lappartient.

Bit awkward. (TissotTiming website)

We note with some relief that company CEO James Pope has included DerbyWheel on a list of projects he is working on (present tense) in 2025, in a LinkedIn update last week.

Professional wrestling matches between keirin races this weekend, at the always-innovative Pist6. https://buff.ly/41tIquk

Keirin draw at British track nationals done using playing cards, not an iPad. Global Keirin wholeheartedly endorses this.

Full house in Manchester for British nationals. Fair play.

Women's final at GB track nationals this evening. Quite the lineup.

And yes, we built it to handle the kinds of madness that track cycling can throw at you - including nationality changes, race meetings being aborted, etc etc... https://buff.ly/41bjPdE

This is what our new statistics component looks like, when it all comes together. The result, with video if we can find it - and each rider is clickable, to see all the results we have for them (not a lot right now). All dependent on access to the data, of course.

Will you make your international debut one day?, she asks her father. Maybe, he replies.