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Richardson, who was born in Maidstone, Kent and moved to Western Australia aged nine, won two silver medals and a bronze for Australia last summer before switching his nationality.<\/p>\n
He won a trio of sprint titles at the British Track Championships<\/a> at the start of the year, and followed it with two golds on his Great Britain debut at the Nations Cup<\/a> in March, on the Konya track in Turkey where the new attempts will all take place.<\/p>\n Richardson briefly set a new flying 200m record at the Olympics of 9.091 seconds, before Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen broke it minutes later.<\/p>\n The 26-year-old said he was “confident” going into next week and that the record would fall below nine seconds soon – a feat that requires speeds of more than 80km\/hr.<\/p>\n “I’m pretty confident that I’m in a really good place to get the job done,” he said.<\/p>\n “It’s a bit of a race between Harrie and I to be the first person to do it [break nine seconds]. It’s been on my radar for the last couple of years as the world’s got a bit closer and closer to going below nine.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n