If it was said that the GB team were using glass fibre reinforced wheels on their cycles. Because glass is insulating it does not generate an electromagnetic field whereas the opposition’s electrically conducting carbon fibre wheeled cycles do. Carefully placed electromagnets beneath the velodrome home straight induce a small but significant level of drag on the opponents ensuring a British victory.

How’s about that? Now wait for French calls to dig up the wooden floor!

Hahaha that’s quite pathetic isn’t it!

They should just accept they lost and be better sports 🙂

link?

Like Chris Hoy said last night ” we are using Mavic wheels, which the french make!”

The wheels are a bit odd, they were one of the things being talked about before the games, then they turned up with mavic stickers on them, so either whatevery they were developing didn’t work or Mavic’s batting for the wrong team.

Electromagnets. Under the track. Okayyyyy.. 🙄

No wonder nobody likes the French.

Maybe they meant this:

http://www.scalextric.com/shop/sets/micro-scalextric/g1072-micro-scalextric-team-gb-track-cycling-velodrome-set/

I was about to say that was a harsh and undeserved comment. Then I saw this;
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.lequipe.fr/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dl%2527equipe%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1151%26bih%3D480%26prmd%3Dimvns&sa=X&ei=ZkQiUPC6DcOb1AX6v4D4Cw&sqi=2&ved=0CGEQ7gEwAA

Edit; check question of the day (and the results).

I liked Dave Brailsford’s explanation:

“We’re using wheels that are round. Not just a bit round, but really round.”

Tongue firmly in cheek 🙂

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Hahaha that’s quite pathetic isn’t it!

They should just accept they lost and be better sports

Should come naturally to them, non?

[/quote]No wonder nobody likes the French.

No, you and your chavvy ignorant friends probably don’t like the French for some probably very interesting reasons.

Normal people aren’t stupidly prejudiced

anyone got original links or is it just the Qu of the day thing on the l’equipe site?

Odd that ~80% of people think TeamGB are cheeting.

French for some probably very interesting reasons.

What, like they’re very very bad losers? 😉
Do you think that Q of the day is tongue in cheek?

Odd that ~80% of french prople think TeamGB cycling are cheeting.

FTFY

80% of people bitter losing frenchies think TeamGB are cheeting

FTFY 😉

EDIT: Ha!

http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-piste/Actualites/-ils-cachent-leurs-roues/303887

The question of the day (Wednesday, 8 August)
Do you think the performance of British cyclists at the London Games are they tainted by cheating?

vote
YES 72%
NO 21%
DK 7%
27842 votes

The only questionable bit with regards to cheating was Philip Hindes saying he’d crashed on purpose to get a restart. Only he knows if that was tongue in cheek or not.