Irish trio ready to take on the world

Cycling Ireland High Performance coach Brian Nugent is upbeat ahead of this week’s UCI World Track Championships in Cali, Colombia and believes he has medal-winning form in the three-person Irish team of Martyn Irvine, Caroline Ryan and debutant at this level, Ryan Mullen.

The latter two have been in camp in Cali just over a week now since they flew straight from a previous camp in Majorca, while Irvine joined the Irish team from a training camp in LA at the weekend, where he worked with renowned track coach, Andy Sparks.

Nugent explained that entering these championships with Ryan as the world’s number one at her favoured discipline, the Individual Pursuit, and Irvine as reigning champion in the Scratch race, has raised expectations.