I thought Kenny had left it too late for a second, there

Skinner on fire. Absolutely caning the opposition all week.

Re tracksuits, I’m just about ok with the GB one but thought the USA kit had some kind if cosmonaut arms.

Come on Kenny!

YESSSS!! 😀

I reckon we’ll get another gold.

What a first Olympics for Callum,brilliant.

Jess Varnish who? 😉

Could be a draw.

*Avoids making poor taste Joanna Rowell joke*

Great photo of Chris Hoy holding up a young Callum Skinner on Edinburgh track. Skinner is looking like a worthy replacement. Awesome.

But the Ladies keirin was my pick of the medals. Such a great event. Every one I’ve ridden, I’ve been trashed, but so much fun.

According to some tweets by someone called Caley Fretz, there is no guaranteed funding for the US Olympic cycling team, all sponsorship. Not sure if this applies to the other sports. Hence the US women’s team pursuit has one permanent member of coaching staff and that is about it. British Cycling has an enormous budget via the National Lottery etc.

Struck me as very amusing that the US saw themselves as underdogs! God knows how this country managed to invest in something and get results, never usually happens!

Sports programmes in the US are run in a weird way and besides, US only has one indoor velodrome (Los Angeles) – there are another couple of dozen outdoor (or partially shielded) tracks built to a wide variety of standards, most are strange distances like 333.3 metres. Also, track cycling itself is very under-the-radar compared to sports like baseball and basketball.

The UK now has 5 international standard indoor velodromes so it’s far easier to identify talent from a young age.

Even sprinting exceeds the attention span required for baseball or basketball.

Well the Women’s Sprint is starting off well in the flying 200m seeding runs, new Olympic Record from Becky James!

0.003 seconds faster than the old Olympic Record set by Victoria Pendleton in London.

Now cycling has disappeared from the blue button.

🙁

It’s on BBC1 now…back on the blue button!

Dutch girl was in a shit position and boxed in by Hong Kong. She leant inwards, French girl pushed back (which is natural when leant into), went off balance as the Dutch girl went with her rather than leaning back and that off-balance carried her up the track.

You know when you think there’s an extra step in a staircase and fall forwards? Bit like that.

Spain behind got caught up in it and went down immediately (front wheel taken out by the back wheel of the French girl), NZ went down as a result of the final rider kicking back to avoid it all.

Certainly not deliberate because 99% of the time if you did that deliberately you’d all fall off together!

So the two fastest qualifiers in Women’s Sprint are Becky James and Katy Marchant for Team GB. 🙂

Cav in the 15km Scratch Race on now, this is shaping up to be another good night in front of the TV!

This should be a cracking race.