Kaarle McCulloch: 'I gave it everything I had'

Kaarle McCulloch has left the door ajar for her international cycling career to continue, but only after a well-deserved break after she finished her Tokyo campaign in the final's repechage of the women's sprint.

McCulloch was 14th fastest in qualifying with 10.67 seconds then had to fight her way back through the repechages after losing her round of 32 match up against New Zealander Ellesse Andrews.

After winning her three-rider repechage, McCulloch then faced off against Canada's Kelsey Mitchell and China's Olympic champion Tianshi Zhong, who proved too strong in the final's repechage.

"It was really close, I'm happy with how I executed out there, I have done really little prep for this and the bonus thing is I have 15 years of racing the sprint so I felt like I was at home out there," McCulloch said.

"To go toe-to-toe with the Olympic champion was really good.

In other racing, Annette Edmondson and Georgia Baker made history by representing Australia in the first ever women's Madison at the Olympics.

The pair finished the 120-lap race in seventh place, behind gold medallists Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald from Great Britain.

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