Commonwealth Games: Trott aiming for the medals in final day of track racing

Laura Trott (England) hopes to put behind her the kidney infection that has been plaguing her since the beginning of the Commonwealth Games and take a medal in the points race on Sunday afternoon. The double Olympic champion put in a poor performance in the individual pursuit and struggled in the points race. She revealed later that she had been suffering with the infection, but it wasn’t going to stop her from trying to compete.

Born in Ireland to a cycling family and later moved to the Isle of Man, so there was no surprise when I got into the sport. Studied sports journalism at university before going on to do a Masters in sports broadcast. After university I spent three months interning at Eurosport, where I covered the Tour de France. In 2012 I started at Procycling Magazine, before becoming the deputy editor of Procycling Week. I then joined Cyclingnews, in December 2013.