Jack's all right with sprint silver

FLYING DUTCHMEN JUST TOO STRONG FOR GB TRIO

- Neil McLeman

JACK CARLIN said silver was "the best we could have done" after a trio of flying Dutchmen twice broke the world record to retain their sprint title.

Carlin, Hamish Turnbull and Ed Lowe set a British record but the Dutch were simply unstoppable in a repeat of the Tokyo final.

Roy van den Berg, Harrie Lavreysen and Jeffrey Hoogland became the first team to smash the 41-second barrier, with their time of 40.949 in the final beating the British by almost a second.

They are the best Dutch sporting trio since Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard and Marco van Basten ruled European football in the Eighties.