A summary of the New Zealanders in action and their race times on the first day of Olympic Track Cycling racing at London's Velodrome, starting at 3am Friday morning.

New Zealand will send a team of six under-19 road cyclists to the Netherlands next month for the UCI Road World Championships. BikeNZ Road and Track announced the final squad today, comprising five men and one woman.

I am sometimes prone to hyperbole. Being in a sporting organization that delivers a huge number of top class events and showcases some of the south’s finest athletes in every age group, you can excuse the odd moment of exaggeration writes CEO Nick Jeffrey.