It was once her Achilles heel but yesterday Laura Trott spoke about how she is beginning to prove a point in the points race.

The 22-year-old is a double Olympic champion, winning gold at London 2012 in the team pursuit and the six-discipline omnium, but the points race has continually proved a problem in the past.

The discipline, which features sprints every 10 laps to accumulate points, should suit Trott’s characteristics but she has had to work on her tactical awareness with British Cycling endurance coach Chris Newton, an Olympic bronze medallist in the event in 2008.

With no omnium at Glasgow 2014, Trott’s individual focus fell on the points race and she emerged with Commonwealth Games gold.

“I was a bit worried about it,” Trott said.

“You want to win a Commonwealth Games medal and I was a bit nervous. I really wanted a medal and I’d chosen my weakest event to try to achieve it in.

“I was super happy it all paid off in the end. After winning the Commonwealth Games it gave me a lot of confidence that I could perform on the international stage.

“I’d always been pretty good, winning nationals or whatever, but when it came to a World Cup or the World Championships, it’s always been the one (discipline) which has let me down.”

The points race is even more important now after the UCI, cycling’s world governing body, reshuffled the order of the omnium disciplines.

Instead of aiming to collect the fewest points and finishing with the 500 metres time-trial — a strong event for Trott — the new target is now to collect the most points.

Forty points are on offer for the winner of each of the first five disciplines and the riders add to their totals in the concluding points race.

It could lead to rivals watching each other, but, theoretically, the whole field could win.

Trott, who won the European title in Guadeloupe in the revised format, added: “All the events are still just as important. If you go into the points race winning all you have to do is follow.

“It could mean the points race is a bit neutralised but it will be interesting to see how it pans out.”

The Cheshunt rider has had a dual track-road focus in the last two years while riding for Wiggle-Honda, but for 2015 she has switched to the British Matrix Fitness-Vulpine squad, with the velodrome the main goal.

“I want to knuckle down now and concentrate fully on track and know I’m giving 100 per cent to that,” she said.