Af­ter a suc­cess­ful stint at the just-con­clud­ed UCI Na­tions Cup, cy­clist Nicholas Paul will be head­ing back to the UCI Train­ing Cen­tre this week where he will con­tin­ue his prepa­ra­tions ahead of the World Cham­pi­onships in France next month.

The event will take place at the Velo­drome Cou­vert Re­gion­al Jean-Sta­blin­s­ki in Roubaix, France. It was orig­i­nal­ly sched­uled to be held in Ash­ga­bat, Turk­menistan.

Paul shook off an un­for­tu­nate spell at the Tokyo, Japan Olympic Games in Ju­ly/Au­gust, to blos­som at the Na­tions Cup, claim­ing a triple gold medal in the Kilo­me­tre Time Tri­al, the keirin event and the much-fan­cied match-sprint.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia Sports on Mon­day, a hum­ble Paul, said he was grate­ful to the Almighty God, with­out whom his achieve­ments could not be pos­si­ble. " It's al­ways a plea­sure to win gold and see your hard work pay off, so com­ing here to Cali, Colom­bia was an­oth­er event. I came and I ex­e­cut­ed, so I was hap­py with my per­for­mance. It's all a step-by-step process. I think that I ticked cer­tain box­es that I need­ed to clean up from the Olympics and oth­er stuff that I learnt."

Paul, 22, who has set on fo­cus on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, progress has been a wel­come one to add to the mul­ti-tal­ent­ed Njisane Phillip, who will re­turn to the T&T team soon. Paul is cur­rent­ly the world record hold­er in the fly­ing 200 me­tres which he set in 2019 with a light­ning-quick time of 9.100 sec­onds.

At the Olympic Games, he al­so forced the world to recog­nise his God-giv­en tal­ent by qual­i­fy­ing for the quar­ter­fi­nals of both the match sprint and keirin events, and was al­so a qual­i­fi­er for the semi­fi­nal of the keirin.

For Paul though, his ac­com­plish­ments at the just con­clud­ed meet was not an easy one: "It was a bit hard be­cause I had some rest pe­ri­od af­ter the Olympics and it was just about a week of train­ing to come in­to this meet, so it was a bit hard and chal­leng­ing, but I still came away with the vic­to­ry, so I am proud of my­self. Every com­pe­ti­tion is of a high lev­el be­cause you could nev­er know what could hap­pen, you can nev­er know what stage of the pro­gramme your op­po­nents are at, so yes, every com­pe­ti­tion is an­oth­er chal­lenge," said Paul.