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Richardson aims to add British title to honours list
Australia's Matthew Richardson during the Men's Sprint at the National Velodrome, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, on the twelfth day of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games in France, August 7, 2024
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THREE-TIME Olympic medallist and former world champion Matthew Richardson will try to add something different to his glittering honours list this weekend – a British title.
Days after the end of a Paris Olympics at which he won two silver medals and a bronze, the 25-year-old caused a major stir by announcing a switch of allegiance from Australia to Great Britain – the country of his birth before his family moved when he was nine.
While it is common for elite riders in the British squad to skip the nationals, the new boy is eager to earn his stripes at the Manchester velodrome, where the nationals take place from Friday to Sunday.
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