- Team sprint trio starts with third best time
The German women's sprint team got off to a slow start in the Olympic track cycling events, posting the third-fastest time in qualifying and dampening their gold medal hopes. Pauline Grabosch, Emma Hinze, and Lea Sophie Friedrich clocked in at 45.644 seconds, trailing behind Britain and New Zealand. The British trio even set a new world record with a time of 45.472 seconds.
The German team will now have to step up their game in the next round (6:55 PM) to advance to the final. They'll need to improve on their performance, as they've won the World Championships four times in a row. In the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Hinze and Friedrich lost to the Chinese team in the final, a competition that was then contested by two riders each.
The German team will likely analyze the strategies used by the Chinese team in their previous encounter, hoping to gain an edge in their rematch. Despite their recent World Championship dominance, they've faced challenges against China in high-stakes competitions.
