If there were an emoji to describe Wednesday's first day of the UCI Track Cycling Championships, it would be "heart-hand." The German women's Team Pursuit athletes noticed that a relatively new Nigerian team was competing in this event with mass start bars, and after the race they were presented with aero bars for all their bikes.

One of the athletes, Yekine Oyetayo Tawakalt, took to Instagram (opens in new tab) to thank Franziska Brause and Mieke Krager after they presented her with their new gear.

"@franzibrausseと@mieke.kroeger, thank you so much for today.

The four-woman Nigerian team qualified for the Cali (Colombia) round of the UCI Track Nations Cup and will make their world championship debut in 2021. Grace Ayuba, Oyetayo, Mary Samuel, and Ese Ukpeselae will represent their country at the World Championships in France this week, where they will compete in both endurance and sprint events: team pursuit, team sprint, elimination race, and 500m time trial. The team will compete in both endurance and sprint events: team pursuit, team sprint, elimination race, and 500m time trial.

As a developing team, the girls in green and white are still making progress in technique and fitness, but one notable difference between them and their rivals is the lack of aerodynamic equipment.

Blause and Kroeger told Radsport-news.com on Thursday that they had privately conspired to prepare a gift for the Nigerian team.

"We first saw them running with mass start handlebars at the Roubaix World Championships last year. At that time we thought: at that moment, we thought: 'This is what we're going to do, we're going to do this, we're going to do this.'

"Exactly," added Krager.

"Exactly: we had to get a time trial handlebar, and we tried to get an old time trial handlebar through the NRW regional association, but it wasn't UCI compliant anymore."

The idea simmered for a while, but a few weeks before the World Championships, Brause scoured the Internet for a bar that could be adjusted to fit the Nigerian's bike. But we told our supplier what we were planning, so we could get them for cheap. So we ordered them and brought them here," she said.

Krager said she had planned to give them the bars at a training session before the competition started, but couldn't find them, so she gave them to them after the individual Pursuit on Wednesday." I was very happy that they were so happy with it."

She added that she was "very happy that they were so happy with it.

She also offered to help give the athletes tips when they have open track time this weekend.

"Yeah, I'll probably be here Sunday too. And if we still have track time and the riders are interested, I'll go out to the track with them again and give them some tips. Especially with the standing start, because some of the riders are still sitting out there. I may still be able to give them some tips there. But in general, I think they are very brave