Katie Archibald will take an unwanted step unto the unknown when the TISSOT UCI Track World Cup returns to Manchester this weekend.
Great Britain’s 23-year-old Olympic and world champion, from Milngavie, Scotland, has demonstrated to all that she is on form this season – but admits she can’t shake her own self-doubt.
Last month she picked up the ninth and tenth European titles of her career before adding the Six Day London women’s title to her palmares for a second time just a week later.
But for Archibald, a complex mixture of self-confidence and self-doubt, she is still unsure of herself going into the first Manchester World Cup since 2013.
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