Carlin is content as he decides it’s time to stop turning the pedals

JACK Carlin was in an Australian gym earlier this year when he began to realise a cycling career which has brought two silver and two bronze Olympic medals was at an end.

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The 28-year-old Scot, who took team sprint silver and individual sprint bronze in both the Tokyo and Paris Games, took time out to go trav-elling after last summer’s Olympics but had stopped at a gym to do some weights and keep himself ticking over.

“Twas just doing a clean in the gym and the thing slipped out of my hands and I dropped it,” Carlin recalled.

“I just looked at it and thought, ‘I don’t need to do this right now: I don’t think I even unracked the weight. I picked up my bag and left.

“That was one point where the cog started turning going, ‘Do I really have this?’ Because the old Jack wouldn’t have done that.”