Triple Olympic medallist Katie Archibald has announced her retirement from track cycling. Over the course of a 13-year-career the Scot amassed a huge haul of 51 medals at world, Olympic, European and Commonwealth level, including two Olympic, seven world and 21 European titles - the latter an all-time record - to make her one of Great Britain’s most decorated track cyclists. She took up the sport relatively late but was talent-spotted by the Great Britain Cycling Team and brought onto the elite women’s track endurance squad as a 19-year-old in 2013, before going on to spearhead a golden age in British track racing. She said: “The draw of the ‘real world’ has been pulling me for a while, but I’ve been too scared to leave the world I know and love and, ultimately, to let go of something I’m good at. It’s not a very clean answer, but now is the right time simply because I’m not scared anymore.…