Brailsford to keep the wheels turning in Rio Dave Brailsford was the mastermind behind British Cycling's successes at the Beijing and London Olympics and is now committed to continuing on to Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Brailsford has two roles - British Cycling performance director and Team Sky principal - and suggested around the London 2012 Games that he was prepared to take a step back from the national governing body and concentrate on the road with Bradley Wiggins" squad. The 48-year-old, however, is keen to remain with British Cycling and continue the jobs he has been doing for the past four years. He even ignored outside approaches from the worlds of sport and business. The aim, should Brailsford say his goodbyes at the end of the 2016 Games, before or afterwards, is for a seamless transition to a new era. "I'm not sure that I was ever going to let go and walk away (completely)," said Brailsford, following the Track World Cup at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow at the weekend. "In my mind I like to think that there was a safety valve where you can just go "Okay, let's look at where we are going." We might structure it slightly differently, we might think about longer-term succession planning. I'd like to think we're building something which is sustainable; coming up to Rio if I just disappeared off sideways nobody would really notice and it would just carry on. Brailsford predicts the turnover of British Cycling staff will be higher post-London than previously, but he would only join them if his desire dipped. "If I wake up and I'm not excited by it, I will step aside, because somebody else should be doing it," he added. Brailsford has conducted post-Olympic reviews previously, but the London 2012 review has been led by Peter King, the former British Cycling chief executive and now executive director, who also holds roles at British Judo, Sport Wales and English Athletics. The review saw King interview over 40 members of the British Cycling set-up, who had anonymity, with his findings and recommendations to be made in a report to the organisation's board imminently. In terms of medals, London was as successful as Beijing for Britain's cyclists, with seven out of 10 track titles and Wiggins" road time-trial crown adding an eighth gold. King said: "There were some interesting views, interesting perceptions and some of the conclusions, I think, will prove to be quite interesting. The priority really is to make sure that British Cycling, in its GB cycling team, has the best structure going forward to Rio to make sure we deliver the maximum number of medals in the next Olympics. I think it's been a positive experience and in the implementation will be a positive step. Whatever comes of the review, it appears British Cycling is in rude health and the riders" succession planning, with Victoria Pendleton now retired and Sir Chris Hoy taking a season off, going to plan. A young British team won three gold medals in three days in Glasgow, with 20-year-old double Olympic and world champion Laura Trott triumphing twice, including the omnium on the final day. Trott's team pursuit win on day one came alongside Elinor Barker, an 18-year-old A Level student from Cardiff. Barker's performance was as good a debut as Brailsford can remember. "That's Laura Trott territory breaking through," he said. Very, very exciting. Brailsford was pleased with the impact of the rest of his team, with two-time Olympic team pursuit champion Ed Clancy's experiment in the team sprint an intriguing one. Clancy, filling Hoy's berth in the Olympic-winning team sprint line-up, combined with Philip Hindes and Jason Kenny to place second in a respectable time. The 2014 Commonwealth Games were also a key consideration of the weekend. Hoy, 37 in March, was present in a spectating capacity at the arena which bares his name, but it is his body that will determine whether he competes in two years" time, with a decision likely next spring. Brailsford added: "I think he would continue if he thought he could perform. It's not about age, it's about performance.