GLASGOW GAMES 2026

Riding for gold. Claudia and Alyssa reflect on their games experience.

Fresh from Glasgow, Pedla riders Claudia Marcks and Alyssa Polites sit down to unpack Australia's gold in the Women's Team Pursuit, the racing, the moments around it, what happened afterwards and the return to life beyond the velodrome.

They came home with three medals between them.

• Team Pursuit, gold. Claudia and Alyssa
• Elimination race, gold. Alyssa
• 1km time trial, silver. Claudia, in an Australian record

Watch below as they cover the start gate, reading the other camp before the final, and the two seconds that decided it. Then the quieter things either side. What you eat the night before. The first meal off the plane. The families that got them on a bike in the first place.

A series of conversations from inside the experience, told by two riders who shared it.