Queally holds London hope

Queally: Shock return?

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Sydney Olympic champion Jason Queally is targeting a place in Great Britain's team pursuit squad at London 2012 - and could even compete in the discipline at this month's Track Cycling World Championships.

The 39-year-old, who won the one-kilometre time-trial event at the Sydney Games in 2000, has reportedly decided to resume competition after retiring following his failure to make the 2008 Olympic team.

Queally has turned his back on his role as a tandem pilot rider for the British Paralympic team and is poised to bid to help Britain to success in the four-man, four-kilometres team pursuit in 2012, but he could yet ride in the event in Copenhagen later this month.

The Lancastrian, who will be 42 in London, said in The Guardian: "It's going to be really tough, because there are riders like Geraint Thomas and Bradley Wiggins who are not in contention for places at present (the pair are focusing on their road careers with Team Sky) and guys like Andy Tennant are going faster all the time.

"I was certain that my full international career was over, and I had no regrets. My wife and I have a young son, there were other things I was doing, I felt I had moved on.

"But I began training with the team pursuiters as the pursuit was a discipline I was going to do with the Paralympians and people began saying I had a potential future there.

"It kept niggling, niggling at me. I spoke to my wife and she said I should go for it. It will be tough, but London is a once in a lifetime opportunity."