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 travelling after last summer’s Olympics but had stopped at a gym to do some weights and keep himself ticking over.

“I was 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.”