BERLIN - The Netherlands made a flying start to the UCI world track championships with two gold medals and Germany's women roared to the team sprint title as records tumbled inside Berlin's velodrome on Wednesday .
Lasse Hansen, Julius Johansen, Frederik Madsen and Rasmus Pedersen gave a team pursuit masterclass in the qualifying round, obliterating reigning champion's Australia's previous world record by a whopping 1.4 seconds. Ed Clancy, part of Britain's 2008, 2012 and 2016 winning teams, said Denmark had"moved the goalposts"."When I was a kid I remember watching the Ozzies do a and thought 'wow, incredible' now it's 10 seconds faster."
The Netherlands were joint top of the medals table last year in Poland with six golds and they are on course for a repeat showing if Wednesday is anything to go by.
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