Zhong using Rio letdown as motivation for Tokyo

Regrouped and recharged, Olympic champion cyclist Zhong Tianshi is back on track to fight for an individual breakthrough at Tokyo 2020.

Zhong and Gong Jinjie brought home China's first Olympic gold medal in cycling when they won the team sprint at the 2016 Rio Games, but the 27-year-old knows she could have done even better.

"Our emotions were too high after the team victory and everybody celebrated as if the Olympics had finished," Zhong recalled of the historic night she and Gong set a world record of 31.928sec in the qualifying round before beating a Russian duo in the final.