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Source: guardian.co.uk Sport

Oct 30, 2009

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• New mark of 4min 15.015sec is fastest under current rules
• Team Sky rider is a contender for time trial in Tour de France

The individual pursuit's status as an Olympic event is in the balance, but it can still bring a crowd to its feet, as Geraint Thomas of Wales found at the World Cup in Manchester when he set the second fastest time ever in competition over the 4,000m distance in qualifying.

Thomas was up against the Lithuanian Gediminas Bagdonas, and overhauled him with some 2,500m covered, going straight past and continuing to set a time of 4min 15.015sec, just inside the Olympic record of 4min 15.031sec set by Bradley Wiggins in Beijing.

The only rider who has gone faster than Wiggins or Thomas is Chris Boardman, who set a time of 4min 11.114sec here in the world championship in 1996, using an aerodynamic stretched out position that has now been banned. Thomas can, therefore, consider himself the fastest rider in the world over the distance under the current rules.

The 23-year-old from South Wales had given a hint of what was coming last week in winning th

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