Olympic Track Cycling

[Aesir]

Wow they are amazing

 

[Yas786]

And a new WR....have to wonder how the hell GB mens and women are beating the WR's so easily in track cycling??. Is it because the other teams are just cruising through whereas GB are blasting through the times.

 

[Bennie-Mac]

I wonder how many velodromes will start construction in the next year?

 

[The_One]

Those women are Terminators

ps3ud0

I know someone who rides for team terminator and potentially a future olympian

http://teamterminator.org.uk/

 

[bliss]

Destroyed!

 

[oli356]

impressive stuff

The crowd made me laugh doing the Mexican wave as they went round the track

 

[Yas786]

Well one things for certain, we definitely are the best in cycling events...seems like its our most successful event at the olympics so far.

 

[robfosters]

Could they potentially be the most dominant sporting team in history?

 

[The_One]

Well one things for certain, we definitely are the best in cycling events...seems like its our most successful event at the olympics so far.

its cause brits are best at sitting on our arses

 

[Mik3]

This is great stuff, new WR's everyday.

 

[The_One]

Could they potentially be the most dominant sporting team in history?

no chance

team usa in swimming or track and field win easily

 

[Yas786]

its cause brits are best at sitting on our arses

LOL took the words out of my mouth...seems like any event that involves us sitting on our arses...we tend to win medals at it

 

[Yas786]

Could they potentially be the most dominant sporting team in history?

If your talking about cycling?? then probably with the way we are cleaning up with medals and WR's.

But for me, the most dominant teams so far in the Olympics are the USA and China. No one is going to even get close to how many medals they end up with.

 

[Spenty]

Team USA in basketball more like.

 

[Bennie-Mac]

Mmm Pendleton.

 

[ps3ud0]

At Olympic level, yes, they probably could do it in fewer laps. But the event is also run at much lower levels of cycling. The idea is to get everyone up to speed with the minimal energy possible.

But does it really matter if its 2 laps or 6? The race is all in the final 2 laps anyway.

Interesting that Mark Cavendish mentioned that it was originally more an endurance race than a sprint - seems to be a mongrel of an event. Makes more sense/more achievement if it was more to keep pace for multiple laps to be there at the end for the sprint, than just a plain sprint as you described...

But that makes it similar to other existing events, which brings me back to my original conclusion that its more an artifical event

ps3ud0

 

[Azza]

Victoria coming up...

 

[Cambofrog]

And a new WR....have to wonder how the hell GB mens and women are beating the WR's so easily in track cycling??. Is it because the other teams are just cruising through whereas GB are blasting through the times.

I think it could be that cycling was already one of our best sports, so attracted sponsership from Lottery, Government(tax payers) and businesses.

 

[SPARC]

Do we really need 8 laps of this Let them go for it after 1.

 

[Bennie-Mac]

Speed of that woman!