BERLIN: Denmark's men's team pursuit squad installed themselves as hot favourites for the Tokyo Olympics as they powered to gold at the world championships with a third world record in little over 24 hours on Thursday.
Only a smattering of their countrymen were in the velodrome to witness Denmark's first team pursuit world title since 2009, but they should have been forgiven belting out the old soccer classic"we are red, we are white, we are Danish dynamite." To put their exploits in Berlin into perspective, Britain's gold-medal winning time at the Rio Games four years ago was 3:50.265, almost six seconds slower.
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