Small-sized Izzah can walk tall after missing top eight in keirin

NOTHING much was expected from young track cyclist Nurul Izzah Izzati Mohd Asri (pic) as she was making her Olympic debut.

But the 20-year-old put up a creditable display to give the top cyclists a run for their money in the first round of women’s keirin at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome yesterday.