Dave Brailsford backing Brits

Dave Brailsford believes Great Britain's track cycling team are on course for a bumper haul of medals at this summer's Olympics. Britain won half the available gold medals in Olympic events at the Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne. "We've got more to come," said Brailsford, whose team won seven out of 10 Olympic titles in Beijing. "There's no reason why we can't step up again, but then again everybody else is going to be improve. Form's going to decide what happens at the Olympics now." Of the 10 Olympic events on the World Championships programme in Melbourne, Britain won five - both team pursuits, Victoria Pendleton in the women's sprint, Laura Trott in the omnium and Sir Chris Hoy in the keirin - with Australia taking three titles and France and Germany one apiece. Selection Brailsford now has a selection headache, particularly in the men's sprint where Sir Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny are in a battle for the one available place. Kenny beat Hoy in Melbourne, but the great Scot has won three of their last five meetings. The decision does not need to be made until noon on August 3, the day before the competition begins, but Hoy would prefer to know sooner if he is to be denied the opportunity to defend one of his Olympic titles. Brailsford said: "The dilemma is that if you select now the riders know what they are doing and can train a little bit more specifically. "The downside is that in 16 weeks anyone's form might not to be the same. That is the conundrum: late for form, but early for clarity of purpose." "Selecting that team is very difficult," Brailsford added. "It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - being Sir Chris Hoy doesn't give you a tenth (of a second). Our job is to pick the fastest guy."