berlin sixtime olympic champion jason kenny says he is dead happy with the health of britains mens sprint squad ahead of the tokyo olympics despite a disappointing showing at the world championships this weekkenny who won the sprint team sprint and keirin in rio four years ago did not even make it through to the last eight of the individual sprint in berlin while team mate jack carlin was eliminated in round onethe 31yearold kenny along with carlin and ryan owens were wellbeaten by the flying dutchman in the team sprint final the silver one of only two medals for powerhouse track nation britain after three days of competitionbritish cycling has traditionally kept its new kit under wraps at world championships prior to an olympics but the squad faces a race against time to close the gap on the dutchkenny requiring one more gold medal to move ahead of chris hoy as britains most successful olympian said he is not about to hit the panic buttoni can only look at my own squad i dont really know whats going on in the others you get rumblings obviously but youd be better asking them about that kenny said of britains lean showing so far at the world championshipsas far as the sprint squad goes we are dead happy we made a big step forward about half a second in the team sprint in the last six months which is a massive gainwe stepped up in the 200 today we were a bit more in the mix and in the keirin we were right up in the fight even if we are not the strongest in there at the minutekenny can point to the fact that the mens sprinters did not medal at last years world championshipshowever at the last world championships before an olympics in london in 2016 britain topped the medals table with five golds including kennys victory in the sprintwhile the worlds are seen as a steeping stone to tokyo the dutch have nailed their colours to the mast in impressive fashion with a new world record in the mens team sprintasked if britain were losing the fear factor kenny modestly said they never had one anywayeveryones doing the same thing and trying to maximise what theyve got said kenny whose wife laura crashed heavily in the omnium the previous day we are no differentworlds are important to us obviously and we want to do well we have to assume everyone else will turn up better in six months too hopefully we will be right at the sharp end