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The Olympics - bothered?

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  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Whats the Madison all about?...

    ..............

    It's a 50km race/200 laps, one member of each team races, while the other pedals around at the top of the track taking a breather before taking over from his team mate, he then races for a certain number of laps before handing over. Every twenty laps there is a sprint and points are awarded, but you can also lap the field - any team that does that automatically takes the lead.
  • pilchard
    pilchard Posts: 3,763
    the olympics, latin for BORING.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Actually the word is Greek in its origins...
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,539
    Madison didn't quite go to plan - Wiggins too knackered so poor old Mark Cavendish is only member of GB cycling team without a medal.

    Now only the Scotsman can win three golds ;-)

    Interesting stuff re the juniors, Rothko.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    And Victoria Pendleton wins Gold...
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Followed by Chris Hoy winning gold and Jason Kenny takes silver. Chris Hoy is in a different class to everyone else.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,539
    Hoy may be different class, but he's still a big softie in floods of tears...aawww

    And that'll teach 'em to take away his event!
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,813
    and we're probably on for another gold and maybe a silver in the BMX, and a outside chance on the moutain biking.

    If we were allowed a bigger cycling team, we probably would have Rob Hayles to go with Mark Cavendish in the Madison, and enough for another mens pursuit team to wrap up silver.
  • Ledge
    Ledge Posts: 7,179
    chris hoy is a beast.

    as for kenny he will be the Hoy of the 2012 olympics what a talent that lad is.

    i'd lOVE to get those pendleton thighs round my neck i tell thee LOL
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,813
    http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04_01/penglamMOS0504_468x731.jpg

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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,894
    CommentAuthorWeegie Addick CommentTime1 hour ago permalink
    Now only the Scotsman can win three golds ;-)

    There they go again!

    ;o)
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,539
    Said specially for your benefit, Off_It :-)

    (I'm 51% English, by the way...)
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,894
    51%?

    Couldn't you be a little more precise?
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,539
    It's the 1% that means I support england when they play Scotland!

    Back on topic, we (Britain - or virtually Jamaica) have just won silver in the men's high jump.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Germaine Mason has won a silver in the high-jump.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,046
    Whatever they do in the cycling (funding, training etc), i hope that other sports chiefs are sitting up and taking notice as the cycling team clearly know what they're doing and getting results.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,539
    It's worth Googling it and reading an article or two on it, Chris - all about focussing on incremental 1% and self-belief. The guy who was performance director for cycling now has that role for UK Sport, so here's hoping....
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,813
    It's also having the whole set up at the Velodrome in Manchester, and having another high performance centre in Newport. When you add the new Velodromes which are going to built for London 2012 and the Commonwealths in Glasgow, we're going to have a serious cycling set up.

    It's how other sports follow the Cycling set up, say the swimmers all basing themselves out of Sheffield, Athletics in Manchester etc etc
  • Ledge
    Ledge Posts: 7,179
    don't forget Herne Hill LOL
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Christine Ohuruogu wins gold, great run - she was back in third/fourth entering the final strait and won it easily.

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  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,233
    GOLD in the ladies 400m...
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,475
    Will she turn up for the dope test afterwards though??
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    how good was that race she came from what seened miles back
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,539
    Pleased for her...as long as she is clean. She has probably been tested more than anyone now, though.
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    edited August 2008
    She has done really well, but has she been punished suitably - missing three drugs tests doesn't sound like something a clean athlete would do?
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,233
    If it werent for Michael Phelps, we would be one gold behind the US... not bad not bad.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    Probably playing Devil's Advocate here and i know there are arguments between missing tests and being found guilty of drug offences but do we think the "holier than thou" crew of Kelly Holmes, Steve Redgrave, Steve Cram, Steve Backley etc will come out and say she doesnt deserve her medal?
  • kinveachyaddick
    kinveachyaddick Posts: 3,875
    of course she deserves her medal. she's never failed a test and she'll have been tested at least a dozen times this year
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    So if Dwain Chambers missed his test and competed it would be ok then?
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    You have to wonder if she is 'clean' though - imho missing three drugs tests is the same as being found guilty of taking drugs.
    ....................

    There'll always be doubts when someone misses a dope test, let alone three of them but she did have a good excuse for one - that the dope testers turned up at the track where she was training, she had turned up earlier to find it had been double booked and trained elsewhere instead. The dope testers - not finding her there reported her for missing a test. I've no idea what the other excuses were though...

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