Canadian track cyclist Kelsey Mitchell to compete for Tokyo Olympic women’s sprint medal

Kelsey Mitchell is in an excellent position to compete for a medal in the track cycling women’s sprint event on Sunday

Kelsey Mitchell advanced to the quarterfinals of the track cycling women’s sprint in the blink of an eye.Mitchell, from Sherwood Park, Alta., edged New Zealand’s Ellesse Andrews by five-thousandths of a second in the 1/8 final Saturday at the Tokyo Games, avoiding the repechage and putting herself in an excellent position to compete for a medal in the event on Sunday’s final day of Olympic competition.

Genest, a bronze medallist in the women’s keirin on Thursday, advanced to the quarterfinal by edging France’s Mathilde Gros — by an even tighter margin of one-thousandth of a second — in a repechage. In the all-Canadian best-of-three quarterfinal, Mitchell beat Genest by margins of .041 seconds and .058 seconds to advance.Genest will compete in a placement race.

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