Great Britain's Jason Kenny is confident that the team sprint squad can challenge in this week's Track Cycling World Championships in Paris.

Great Britain have not clinched gold in this tournament since 2005, but the riders claimed team sprint victory in the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Mexico in 2014.

"We need to be there and right behind them, and they need to know, everyone else in the world needs to know, the Germans, who have probably got the fastest team, need to know that if they get it wrong we will be there picking up the pieces," Kenny told British Cycling.

"If we get the most out of ourselves we are going to be there or thereabouts, and we should be in with a shout of a medal for sure."

Kenny was part of the British team, including Callum Skinner and Philip Hindes, who helped end a four-year wait for gold in the World Cup last November.

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Danielle Joynson