The BBC live feed is once again full of comments angry at the officiating in track cycling. Starting to become an issue here in th Uak for the reputation of the entire sport.
UK sport have been looking for a opportunity to de fund British Cycling - the public here in the UK are seeing the Track Cycling as sudden flop so that will be the excuse needed to cut funding heavily.
The UCI can’t be happy with the BBC website - almost entirely United in anger against them due to Marchant getting relegated while the Danes did not yesterday.
The BBC highlights gave the mild impression Denmark should have been DQ and GB should have been in the final. No clear mention of how poor GB’s time was before the catch and how far away from the bronze race they were.
British Cycling performance director Stephen Park also confirmed they were one of "several" teams to call for the Danes to be penalised for the use of illegal equipment inMonday's qualifying session.
The world champions wore plasters on their shins in a bid to improve their aerodynamics, while apparently wearing undervests which had not been properly registered in time.
Park said that at a meeting of teams before Tuesday's cycling session, the UCI confirmed the equipment could not be used for the rest of the competition but indicated there would be no retroactive punishment, despite rules saying a team should face elimination in such circumstances.
"There was a fairly heated debate about whether the UCI were or were not going to apply their own rules about [the tape] and about undervests," Park said.
I am going to predict no Gold’s for Gb in the velodrome. I think they will be a few more silver’s and bronzes maybe in the men’s print and Kerrin and women’s omnium.
With Cycling getting silvers for GB will get them a lot more criticism than getting silvers in other sports. The BBC have tried to reduce expectations but it hasn’t really worked going by social media. Cycling is also part of the culture war - both in terms of the British Cycling set up and also the general culture of cycling.
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Quite a good tournament for
it seems particualy in the juniors.
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