Two of T&T's top rid­ers Nicholas Paul and Ak­ile Camp­bell are plan­ning to put their best feet for­ward and ex­e­cute when the World Cham­pi­onships are held in Roubaix, France from Wednes­day to next Mon­day (Oc­to­ber 20-24).

Both men shone bright­ly at the re­cent UCI (In­ter­na­tion­al Cy­cling Union) Na­tions Cup in Cali, Colom­bia last month, with Paul claim­ing gold medals in the Kilo­me­tre Time Tri­al, the keirin and the match-sprint events, while Camp­bell paved the way for en­durance rid­ing in T&T by clinch­ing the gold medal at the Elim­i­na­tion Race.

The duo was sin­gled out by the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion to com­pete at in­di­vid­ual events, though the coun­try re­ceived eight spots from the sport's world gov­ern­ing body for the World Cham­pi­onships, which apart from the in­di­vid­ual events, en­tails com­pet­ing at team events in­clu­sive of sprints and en­durance rides.

The ac­counts from both rid­ers though are that both rid­ers are ea­ger­ly await­ing com­pe­ti­tion at the end of the month.

"I'm look­ing for­ward to the games, I just want to go and do my best. No ex­pec­ta­tions re­al­ly, just to go out there and give it my all," Camp­bell said. "It will be the first World Cham­pi­onships that I'm go­ing to and it has been a lot of first for me this year, so re­al­ly and tru­ly, I'm just ex­cit­ed to go there and see where I am at against the world."

Paul, on the oth­er hand, said: "I'm anx­ious­ly wait­ing to go to the World Cham­pi­onships in France to see what the legs are say­ing again, so I can't wait to get back on the boards and start rac­ing again.

"Com­ing out of the Olympics I had some down­time, al­most like two weeks and then I had one week prep, to get back ac­cus­tomed to the tracks in Cou­va. Then it was off to Colom­bia where it end­ed up that I came out with three golds so I am re­al­ly hap­py with the re­sult.

"Af­ter the Olympics, it's the World Cham­pi­onships so it's an­oth­er big race for me, to go out there and ex­e­cute as I al­ways say and put my best foot for­ward. It would be a hard race as usu­al be­cause at the World Cham­pi­onships every coun­try would be com­ing to rep­re­sent and do their best so it's just to wait on the day and see how it all un­folds."

Paul is the world record-hold­er in the fly­ing 200 me­tres, with a time of 9.100 at the Elite Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in Cochabam­ba, Bo­livia in 2019.

Be­sides his dom­i­nance in the sprints, Paul has suc­cess­ful­ly shown su­pe­ri­or­i­ty at the kilo­me­tre time tri­al which he re­vealed re­cent­ly, is al­so a pet event of his.

He said: "When I start­ed sprint­ing I used to do the ki­lo at spec­i­fied events. Some­times you can't do the ki­lo but it is one of my pet events and I love it. It is al­so a love-hate re­la­tion­ship be­cause of the pain you get from it, but at the end of the day, it is still an event I like."

In spite of the com­ing World Cham­pi­onship, Paul told Guardian Me­dia Sports he has his eyes fixed on the Olympic Games in France in 2024 and he has been back at the draw­ing board at­tempt­ing to im­prove in ar­eas he took from his first Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Camp­bell's feat at the Na­tions Cup came sur­pris­ing­ly in spite of a crash that sent him to the ground, how­ev­er, at the World Cham­pi­onship he is ex­pect­ing a dif­fer­ent race.

"I think it will be re­al­ly chal­leng­ing, you're talk­ing about the best cy­clists in the world go­ing at the World Cham­pi­onship, so I ex­pect the com­pe­ti­tion to be re­al­ly tough, the tough­est I've ever been to ac­tu­al­ly but as I said I'm just go­ing to do my best."