Track Cycling UCI World Championships 2021

[Henry_Leon 1,703]

Day 2 >> 2 gold (and a Silver)

 

Men team pursuit

Letizia Paternoster - Elimination race

and Silver: Women team pursuit (1st time ever)

 

Recap after second day:  3 gold and 1 Silver

[heywoodu 16,431]

Wow, what a total destruction by Lavreysen in the keirin final  

 

Hoogland must be getting more and more desperate.

[heywoodu 16,431]

9 hours ago, SalamAkhi said:

She's not showing any sign of tactical progression 

But paradoxically, her best achievements are in Keirin, where you would think tactics play a bigger part ... maybe something to do with her gear ratio ?

Possibly, although she would have lost those sprint heats with any gears, she simply looked away in the decider. Sort of like Uran against Vinokourov in the 2012 Olympic road race, although in this case it was just a bad mistake instead of Vinokourov offering a bag of money

 

Curious to see how she'll do in the keirin. Physically she's absolutely capable of beating everyone..

[dcro 10,210]

19 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Sort of like Uran against Vinokourov in the 2012 Olympic road race, although in this case it was just a bad mistake instead of Vinokourov offering a bag of money

Is that confirmed or is it a conspiracy theory?

[heywoodu 16,431]

2 hours ago, dcro said:

Is that confirmed or is it a conspiracy theory?

Not sure whether or not it's officially confirmed, but I think I've heard literally nobody who believes Uran made an honest mistake there, it was way, way too obvious  

 

And, I mean, it's Vinokourov, few cyclists are more suspicious than him as both a cyclist and a team manager. The term 'he must have received a letter from Vino' whenever a disappointing Astana rider suddenly improves out of nowhere is rather well-known, for example  

 

That is without even mentioning the long, long legal process about his LBL win in 2010, which he allegedly bought from Kolobnev (who basically rode like the perfect leadout for Vino), even though the 150.000 euro that was sent by Vino to Kolobnev was explained away as merely 'a loan to my friend'  

[Edvid 22]

17 hours ago, Gianlu33 said:

Just 4th place for Paul

He qualified second (59.269!) in the kilo - if he rides like that in the final, he'll win a medal.

[heywoodu 16,431]

Either Ganna took it way too easy in qualifying, or he's just reaching a (very logical) end of his abilities for this season. Anyhow, he's going for 'only' bronze against Imhof, after which Milan and fastest qualifier Lambie are going to battle it out for gold.

[SalamAkhi 359]

Very strong last kilometer but not quite enough, he's got the best instantaneous speed of every athlete at every moment of the pursuit ... on the finish line 

Maybe on his way to the Hour record forgetting that it's only 4km for today  

[dcro 10,210]

How come this Ashton Lambie character is not even an Olympian or anything...?

 

As small time of a WR holder as you can get these days....

[Edvid 22]

Lambie only started riding track in 2017. He isn't a high-level bunch racer on the track and the only Tokyo 2020 event he'd have been picked for would have been the team pursuit (which the US men did not qualify for).

 

As for Ganna - don't forget he also cracked a rib the other day. He was set for last Sunday's Chrono des Nations but pulled out to focus on these championships.