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2016 Olympic Cycling (Spoilers likely!)
aracer
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He seems to be happy in himself there – hope he can get something out of this.

Wasn’t Trott flipping quick there? Last 2 laps on the front and nobody could get round her.

Posted 8 years ago

crazy-legs
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Link to it? I was watching it online and that seems to have large swathes of silence while they switch between events…

Tonight’s racing should be good.

Posted 8 years ago

aracer
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You need to find the BBC1 coverage on iPlayer (go to channels and schedule). It was on just before I posted, so just before 15:00.

Posted 8 years ago

chakaping
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Flipping hell is it on again already?

I’ve got so much work to do this week and was really wanting to get out and ride a bit as well.

Oh well.

Posted 8 years ago

theotherjonv
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How does his flying lap stack up vs the rest? I mean, we know he’s quick and his TT/Pursuit performance suggests he has some decent stamina built in too, so hopefully he can score well in that ‘controllable’ environment.

Then looks like there’s half a dozen or eight still in contention, so points race will have to be contested rather than just marking someone else out of it, so maybe sprint points will become vital as opposed to trying to steal laps.

I think the evening entertainment’s sorted then.

Posted 8 years ago

chakaping
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Come on local lass Laura.

Sorry, you’re not nicking her.

She’s the only thing my hometown (Cheshunt) has going for it now that the shine’s come off Sir Cliff.

😉

Posted 8 years ago

aracer
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Hoy seemed to think he would be a lot better at that than the pursuit and kilo, so should be promising. Was talking him up for the flying lap in the “interview” mentioned above.

Posted 8 years ago

jimdubleyou
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Cav – “Oh my God, Chris, can I have an autograph?”.

Haha.

Posted 8 years ago

Bunnyhop
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Chakaping – we’re only borrowing her and Jason 🙂

Posted 8 years ago

chakaping
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That’s OK then.

They might have named a leisure centre after her but I don’t see her moving back to settle down with JK in future.

Posted 8 years ago

Bunnyhop
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Another type of riding here, Charlotte DuJardin just won gold. Yay.

Posted 8 years ago

crazy-legs
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Another type of riding here, Charlotte DuJardin just won gold. Yay.

Very definitely the wrong thread, take your horse dancing off somewhere else! 😉

Cav going well, up into 2nd.
Laura Trott up in the Omnium IP in a moment.

Posted 8 years ago

cvilla
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Hammers bike… Crankset on other side, why? Any ideas, left handed;)

Posted 8 years ago

crazy-legs
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Hammers bike… Crankset on other side, why? Any ideas, left handed;)

It got covered a few pages ago. Supposedly aerodynamics. Chris Boardman reckons it’s mostly bollocks though, says Team GB tried it out about 10 years ago and found sod all difference.

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/product-news/usa-olympic-felt-ta-frd-track-bike-229573

Posted 8 years ago

whippersnapper
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Interesting, how wide is the line between a sod all and a marginal gain?

Posted 8 years ago

teamhurtmore
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Go Cav go……

Posted 8 years ago

crazy-legs
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160 laps of points racing.
This could either be a nailbiting race to the wire or a total yawn-fest…

Posted 8 years ago

crazy-legs
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That lap gain from Hansen has pushed Cav back down to Bronze medal position. This is going to be harsh, it’s very close up the top and he’s not got any allies.

Posted 8 years ago

cheers_drive
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That didn’t look good

Posted 8 years ago

allthepies
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Cav just took him out.

Posted 8 years ago

rascal
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Cav – WTF?
Totally caused a big crash then.

Posted 8 years ago

notmyrealname
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Cav gets DQ’ed for that.

Posted 8 years ago

Markie
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Might he be disqualified?

Edit, just saw post above!

Posted 8 years ago

crazy-legs
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Um…
OK, wtf just happened there?! Cav was lucky not to go down there, I think he actually caused that crash…

Posted 8 years ago

tenfoot
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Wtf is Cav up to?

Posted 8 years ago

crazy-legs
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Race neutralised.

Posted 8 years ago

wrecker
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He may as well go sit down. Really stupid thing to do. No way can he go unpenalised.

Posted 8 years ago

wildheart
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That looked deliberate from Cavendish.

He’ll surely pay a price for that.

Posted 8 years ago

ir_bandito
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genuine accident though, does that hold weight?

Posted 8 years ago

somafunk
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Cav is just being his usual arrogant self

Posted 8 years ago

whippersnapper
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Arrogant or clumsy?

Posted 8 years ago

FunkyDunc
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Looked deliberate to me

Posted 8 years ago

jimdubleyou
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How does that work with the leader on the deck for 4 laps?

Is he allowed to just rejoin?

Posted 8 years ago

mcj78
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Dunno – he looked round seconds before moving down, must have seen the guy?

Posted 8 years ago

coconut
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Total bulldozer move by Cavendish….

Posted 8 years ago

somafunk
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Given his previous infractions/collisions in road sprints I’d say arrogance but then again I don’t have much time for him

Posted 8 years ago

crazy-legs
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Looked deliberate to me

It’s extremely risky and very stupid to attempt a deliberate crash on the track and besides, taking out the Korean was of no benefit to anyone. 99% of the time in anything like that, both riders will go down.

It was a thoroughly stupid move but not deliberate.

Posted 8 years ago

theotherjonv
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clumsy, he swung up, expected the korean to come through low down and was swinging back on but the korean followed him up

Posted 8 years ago

wiggles
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Looked like a stupid move for cab, but I don’t understand how if you crash you can just sit down and have a rest for a few laps and join back in and count as being on the same lap?

Posted 8 years ago

fisha
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If cav hadn’t looked back immediately before cutting down, I could have seen it being an unfortunate mistake, but to look round first then cut down, that just seems hard to explain/excuse.

He won’t have won many friends with that.

Posted 8 years ago