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Olympics: Track Cycling
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1 up so far, but this french guy is a beast!0
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i thought that was him again then realised it was Vicky P! (I am watching on an Iphone to be fair)0
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As a cycling thickie, please can someone explain why they go slow at the start?0
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Kenny wins GOLD!0
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Get In!!!! Fantastic Jason Kenny. Give the French more to moan about :-)))))0
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Cos if you try and give it the billy big bollocks beans for 3 whole laps, you'll lose everytime as you will tire whilst the other guy sits in your slipstreamMendonca In Asdas said:As a cycling thickie, please can someone explain why they go slow at the start?
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Cheers Sam0
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Wow loving that elimination race!0
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So exciting, why have I never heard of these events ? Time to broaden my horizons past Sky Sports methinks.0
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A few have blazed the three laps and won but not many. Amazed at how fun this sport is0
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brilliant stuff, outside the athletics stadium, that veladrome is the place to be0
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Occasionally you see them go for it from the start - but it's cat and mouse for two laps. The one on the inside is at a disadvantage as the outside rider has the advantage of sitting on his wheel, slipstreaming him and then overtaking in the straight. So the idea is to push your opponent up the track and then see if you can get the jump on him which is difficult to do from the front but not impossible. It's a good race as it mixes tactics and sheer flatout sprinting speed. Bauge, the French cyclist who was beaten 2-0 is the world champ at this discipline.Mendonca In Asdas said:As a cycling thickie, please can someone explain why they go slow at the start?
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Other than the Olympics, does indoor cycling get shown much on TV?
What I've seen of it it looks so exciting.0 -
Thanks guys for explaining!0
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There are annual Wold Track championships - this year's were in Melbourne in April.Mendonca In Asdas said:Other than the Olympics, does indoor cycling get shown much on TV?
What I've seen of it it looks so exciting.
The 2013 Championships are scheduled for Minsk next February.
They are televised - on BBC and Eurosport.
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Cheers BFR would be good to start a thread nearer the time, to remind us to watch it.0
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I've not actually been to either so my opinion is based purely on what I've seen on he telly, but I'd far rather be in the velodrome than at the stadium.Elthamaddick said:brilliant stuff, outside the athletics stadium, that veladrome is the place to be
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In a funny way, we've won so many gold medals in the velodrome, that they've become routine and commonplace, whereas in the athletics stadium, gold medals are far harder for our competitors to obtain, so seem more special!
If Kenny had only come second today, that would have been considered by many a major failure, especially as competition for GB places is so tight, which is an extraordinary state of affairs.0 -
I'm to busy watching the cycling to comment on here but just to say we've been fantastic and its probably going to continue!!!!!!!!0
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Minsk in February...who decides these things?BlackForestReds said:
There are annual Wold Track championships - this year's were in Melbourne in April.Mendonca In Asdas said:Other than the Olympics, does indoor cycling get shown much on TV?
What I've seen of it it looks so exciting.
The 2013 Championships are scheduled for Minsk next February.
They are televised - on BBC and Eurosport.
Just kicking myself I didn't try harder for Velodrome tickets
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The velodrome is a magnificent building beautiful to look at but it should've held 20k not 6 and that will be the sad thing about it we had a chance to build something that not only looks beautiful bit could hold so much more0
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There have been 7 golds awarded in the track cycling so far and we have only won 5 of them. Not good enough.
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Hmm, Melbourne in April sounds a lot more attractive than Minsk in February!BlackForestReds said:
There are annual Wold Track championships - this year's were in Melbourne in April.Mendonca In Asdas said:Other than the Olympics, does indoor cycling get shown much on TV?
What I've seen of it it looks so exciting.
The 2013 Championships are scheduled for Minsk next February.
They are televised - on BBC and Eurosport.0 -
Kenny got selected over Hoy for the sprint so was under pressure as well as facing the World Champ. In cycling terms, he blew him away.
Victoria up today.0 -
Don't know anything about the technicalities of track cycling but i am mightily impressed with this group of athletes who all seem to pull for one another and must be amongst the tightest knit goup of athletes anywhere. All I can say is that they constantly amaze me and always make me proud to be British0
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Agree dave, and I would add the administrators of the sport are awesome too.
Brilliant interview with Head of GB Cycling - I think they said it was Dave Brailsford.
French are very suspicious of our success and he is endlessly grilled by the French media.
Having had enough of this he told L'Equipe that the secret was getting ''perfectly round wheels''.
They bought it and printed the secret this week, he said with a grin.
The whole set up is unbelievably professional, technical analysis, research of military and other industries to see what could be applied to GB cycling, minutely detailed performance analysis etc. Huge respect to the team and I couldn't imagine a more superb, perfect director - what a guy!0 -
London is bidding for the 2016 world track championships, hopefully they'll get it, would love to go to the veledrome and by 2016 my little boy should be big enough to appreciate it more.0
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Three possibilities for gold today:
4:00pm: Women's sprint semi-finals race one - Vicky Pendleton goes in this competition.
4:07pm: Women's omnium scratch race - Laura Trott in this...
4:27pm: Women's sprint semi-finals race two
4:34pm: Men's keirin second round - and Chris Hoy in this...
4:44pm: Women's sprint semi-finals race three
4:53pm: Women's omnium 500m time trial
5:26pm: Women's sprint final race one
5:48pm: Women's sprint finals race two
5:57pm: Men's keirin finals
6:23pm: Women's sprint finals race three - if needed....
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what about the final Omnium event?BlackForestReds said:Three possibilities for gold today:
4:00pm: Women's sprint semi-finals race one - Vicky Pendleton goes in this competition.
4:07pm: Women's omnium scratch race - Laura Trott in this...
4:27pm: Women's sprint semi-finals race two
4:34pm: Men's keirin second round - and Chris Hoy in this...
4:44pm: Women's sprint semi-finals race three
4:53pm: Women's omnium 500m time trial
5:26pm: Women's sprint final race one
5:48pm: Women's sprint finals race two
5:57pm: Men's keirin finals
6:23pm: Women's sprint finals race three - if needed....
Gutted as finish work at 5:30 and get home at 6:45 grrr.0 -
Who's Vicky P got in the semi? I'm assuming she's avoided Anna Meares due to the seeding???
Should be home about 4.45, so just about home in time to see us clean up the medals :-)
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