Team GB’s Jack Carlin facing monster challenge in track sprint at Paris 2024

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As the Olympics is nearing, a look at Team GB’s Jack Carlin and how he faces a monster task of beating one of the best track sprinters of all time, Dutchman Harry Lavreysen.

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00:00Team GB's Jack Carlin has a problem. To win Olympic gold he has to get the better of the

00:07man who he describes as probably the best track sprinter of all time.

00:12Dutchman Harry Laverson, the defending champion in the team and individual sprint, has become

00:17close to unbeatable in recent years. Close to, but not yet invincible.

00:23Everyone's beatable, Carlin told BBC Sport. Even the best make mistakes.

00:29The man who did get the better of Laverson, winner of the last five men's sprint world

00:33titles in Tokyo three years ago, is Jason Kenney.

00:38Great Britain's most successful Olympian claimed the last and most unexpected of his seven

00:43gold medals. He is now in Carlin's corner as a coach.

00:47Which he added, I've learned more from watching him during the Olympics than actually now

00:51as a coach. Hopefully our good work can continue to get

00:55the very best out of our chances in Paris.

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