Cycling defector Matthew Richardson, the athlete who last year won Olympic medals for Australia in Paris before sensationally switching his allegiance to Great Britain, won his first gold medals for his country of birth at the weekend.
But the 25-year-old was stripped of a world record at the UCI Track Nations Cup in Turkey after an investigation found he'd strayed into an out-of-bounds area.
Richardson teamed up with Harry Ledingham-Horn and Harry Radford to set a new national record in the qualifying segment of the men's team sprint, before clinching gold in a showdown against Japan.
Richardson also conquered the men's individual sprint with a 2-0 victory over Ledingham-Horn in the gold-medal match.
However, he posted what was originally accepted as a world record when he clocked 9.041 seconds for 200m in qualifying, before losing the world record when it was deemed he'd ventured beneath the blue band.
Despite having his world record voided, he was allowed to retain the top qualifying spot.
Matthew Richardson with the gold medal he won at the UCI Track Nations Cup in Turkey. Getty
He then proceeded to win 2-0 in each of his finals fixtures: his quarter-final, semi-final and gold-medal match.
"A dream comes true," Richardson said.
"My first official outing for Great Britain here in Konya [a city in Turkey] for the first and only World Cup of the season. A dream of mine for a long time."
Richardson encountered similar misfortune in his pursuit of the sprint world record at the Paris Olympics, clocking 9.091 seconds in qualifying to shatter a mark that had stood for five years only to lose it a few minutes later to the Netherlands' Harrie Lavreysen.
The Dutchman then defeated Richardson 2-0 in the sprint gold-medal match.
Richardson collected Olympic silver medals in the sprint and keirin events as well as a bronze in the team sprint.
The Kent-born star then rocked the Australian cycling fraternity with his shock announcement just days later.
In November, AusCycling banned him from ever representing the country again.
"I thought it was pretty obvious that, by wanting to ride for GB for the rest of my career, that would mean I didn't want to ride for Australia for the rest of my career," Richardson said in a spicy retort.
"It's almost like you leave your job, and three months later, they go, 'Well, you're fired!'.
"It's just words on a piece of paper, really, and they don't really carry much weight for me."