2016 Olympic Cycling (Spoilers likely!)

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2016 Olympic Cycling (Spoilers likely!)
beej
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Wowzers.

Posted 8 years ago

Gary_C
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YEEEEESSSSS!!!!

Posted 8 years ago

spacemonkey
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Jesus.

Posted 8 years ago

mcmoonter
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He deserves that medal!

Posted 8 years ago

unklehomered
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Yes!

Posted 8 years ago

fasthaggis
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heartstoppingtastic

Posted 8 years ago

mrhoppy
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Stunning ride there, thought he was in trouble with a lap to go.

Posted 8 years ago

cheers_drive
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Yes!
Oops I just woke the baby

Posted 8 years ago

theotherjonv
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Right, get the news on, we know the result now.

Posted 8 years ago

leffeboy
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What
A
Ride

Posted 8 years ago

captainsasquatch
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The boy’s a machine.

Posted 8 years ago

snotrag
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Absolutely masterful in the end. He was so cool there, knew he could do it. Absolutely smashed them.

Posted 8 years ago

matt_outandabout
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Thier Christmas tree will have 10 rather special decorations…

Posted 8 years ago

unklehomered
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Careful Boardman. There’ll be letters.

Posted 8 years ago

mrhoppy
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Cav and the lady sprinters let the side down by ‘only’ winning silvers in their events. 😈

Posted 8 years ago

zippykona
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How much will British Cycling be paying him and his mrs to breed?

Posted 8 years ago

MarkBrewer
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Never watched this type of cycling before, what a strange sport 😯

Some people on their racers ride round behind an e bike for 3/4 of the race then only race hard for a couple of laps 😕 Good effort though to keep his nerve and win after that shambles 8)

Posted 8 years ago

theotherjonv
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He’s got his kit in a bag for life!

Posted 8 years ago

aracer
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The point is to reduce it just to the high speed sprint part of the race by getting rid of all of the tactical messing around you get in the first couple of laps in the individual sprint (what the women were doing a little earlier). Does a fairly good job of that – not sure how else they could set that up.

Posted 8 years ago

MrSmith
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Trott/Kenny are 13th in the medal table

Posted 8 years ago

aracer
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Yeah, bloody useless that Cav bloke – I mean has he ever won a cycling race?

Posted 8 years ago

snotrag
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I wonder if the FA would like to ask British Cycling/Team GB a thing or two about bringing a sport from grassroots up to world-smashing absolute dominance before the next few world cups!

Posted 8 years ago

jimdubleyou
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Kenny-Trott household now 13th in medal table. Fantastic!

Posted 8 years ago

theotherjonv
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That track medal table……. no wonder everyone thinks we’re on something.

Posted 8 years ago

rOcKeTdOg
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I wonder if Shane Sutton is watching?

Posted 8 years ago

jambalaya
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^^ Head Coach said he was sure he would be and that he had resigned for the good of the team to allow them to focus on the games. I wonder who the dissafected sprinter thought she should have been selected ahead of ?

Posted 8 years ago

tjagain
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As well as not instead of.

Posted 8 years ago

Junkyard
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its getting harder to get in our track team than win the Olympics 😯

WOW
When i was a kid we only had Boardman and before him Millar now look at us

TdF, Own the track….. Its **** great

Posted 8 years ago

kerley
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That track medal table……. no wonder everyone thinks we’re on something.

Must have been on the same stuff in 2012. Worth watching the GCN show from last night where they give some background to why GB are doing well.
– Lottery funding started 20 years ago targeting track cycling and rowing.
– Getting into schools and selecting candidates (who may not even have done cycling)
– The best coaches
– More money for research, leading to marginal gains etc,.
– And funding based on success – more medals keeps the funding

All makes sense. If I wanted to win the Olympics I would pick sports that have no dominance or mass popularity i.e. I would stay out of things like track and field (100m, 200M etc,)

Posted 8 years ago

epicyclo
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Junkyard – lazarus
…When i was a kid we only had Boardman and before him Millar now look at us

TdF, Own the track….. Its **** great

Brilliant results.

Back then we wasted talents like Obree because they didn’t fit the system.

Posted 8 years ago

chakaping
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Do you think Obree would fit the BC system now?

It’d be nice to think so, but they do seem a bit “our way or the highway” – and he is a real one-off.

Posted 8 years ago

cloudnine
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Getting into schools and selecting candidates (who may not even have done cycling)

So how can they identify the talented future prospects?
Physical attributes? Fitness? Mental toughness?

Posted 8 years ago

whitestone
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Never watched this type of cycling before, what a strange sport

No stranger than any other sport and certainly no stranger than riding round a trail centre 😉

Posted 8 years ago

I_did_dab
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Let’s not forget the Revolution series that allows teenage club riders to experience a full size crowd in a proper velodrome at an early age. Those with a head for competition shine and get to mix with the GB team and the pros. I watched Adam Blythe do this ten years ago (for example).

Posted 8 years ago

I_did_dab
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Never watched this type of cycling before, what a strange sport

My theory is that they are all games you played on your bike as a kid. The Keirin is the chase the delivery scooter until it turns off and sprint to the next lamppost game, and the elimination race is the laps around the block – last one’s out game. Simple, that’s why they are great to watch.

Posted 8 years ago

hooli
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I do like Boardmans commentry. When Kenny won and Trott was very emotional, Boardman’s comment was that she clearly does the emotion for both of them and he just wants to know whats for tea 😀

Posted 8 years ago

avdave2
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Up until last night I’d been wondering why the derny bike rider appeared to always be wearing a camelback. Now I know he was expecting it to go go on all night.

Posted 8 years ago

epicsteve
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Do you think Obree would fit the BC system now?

It’d be nice to think so, but they do seem a bit “our way or the highway” – and he is a real one-off.

I read Obree’s biography recently – very interesting read and quite sad in places. It’s possible he might have been better off given the constant support there would have been from a GB team like the current one, but it’s just as likely he’d have rebelled.

Posted 8 years ago

aracer
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No Olympic event for Obree nowadays (he was never a team pursuiter), though I also note that Cav just went faster than Obree ever did

Posted 8 years ago

jimdubleyou
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So how can they identify the talented future prospects?
Physical attributes? Fitness? Mental toughness?

Yup. They go round schools & clubs and ask the PE teachers/coaches who’s good, and measure up the kids for who has the physique (I think this is more important for rowing).

PE teachers will have contacts in local clubs (esp. if it’s their sport) for any shining stars. e.g. Mrs Dubleyou has spotted a couple of hockey players in her school that have got national league potential. They have been steered to the local clubs with the better youth programs.

Posted 8 years ago