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Wednesday, 31 July, 2002, 18:46 GMT 19:46 UK
Double joy for Mears
England's Victoria Pendleton and Australian sisters Kerrie and Anna Meares had little trouble in booking their semi-final places in the women's sprint semi-finals on Wednesday.
Kerrie, who is almost a year to the day older than sister Anna, did not even need to put a foot on the pedals to qualify.
Her opponent, Malaysia's Hsu Min Chung, decided to pull out of the best-of-three contest.
Pendleton clocked the fastest time of the round to beat fellow English cyclist Melanie Szubrycht.
The three winners now join Canada's Lori-Ann Muenzer in Thursday's semi-finals here at the National Cycling Centre.
Muenzer clocked a Commonwealth Games record time of 11.452 seconds in the morning qualifiers to give early notice of her ability.
The 36-year-old bronze medallist at the Kuala Lumpur Games four years ago was given a bye in the quarter-final because two of the scheduled competitors pulled out of the first round.
"When I woke up this morning I knew I had good legs," Muenzer said. "I knew they were there, clean, fresh and ready to rip up the track."
The Meares sisters have avoided facing each other in the semi-finals. Anna takes on Muenzer while Kerrie faces Pendleton.
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