Track Cycling UEC European Championships 2018

[dcro 10,210]

Spain is still faster than Team Ceci

[heywoodu 15,141]

6 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Not too surprising, given that this track (build for Chris Hoy) is said to be clearly in favor of sprinters and not endurance athletes.

Out of curiousity: what does that have to do with the availability of decent live results?  

[heywoodu 15,141]

Not bad from the Dutch guys. 

[CCB 565]

Is it now 1vs4, 2vs3 for the final spots? Or 1vs8, 2vs7 and so on?

 

Good ride from the Dutch! 

[dcro 10,210]

Germany will race for bronze.

[dcro 10,210]

1 minute ago, CCB said:

Is it now 1vs4, 2vs3 for the final spots? Or 1vs8, 2vs7 and so on?

 

Good ride from the Dutch! 

 

1vs8, 2vs7, 3vs6, 4vs5.

[heywoodu 15,141]

Why does track cycling have these strange 'knock-out' rounds? 

 

Why not simply a qualifying on time, then 1vs8 etc, and knock-out until the gold instead of strange stuff with only the top-4 still having a chance for gold, but 5-8 still in the race for bronze and so on? 

[OlympicsFan 858]

vor 21 Minuten schrieb heywoodu:

Out of curiousity: what does that have to do with the availability of decent live results?  

Isnt that obvious?

This is a track for sprinters, so the athletes are so fast that their times cant be measured.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course i actually wanted to quote your comment about the russian time in womens team sprint ...

[OlympicsFan 858]

vor 8 Minuten schrieb dcro:

Germany will race for bronze.

I think GB, France, Italy, Switzerland and Russia can all go 3:56. I have to say that i am not happy at all with the first german rider, Leon Rohde gave up in both rounds after like 100 m (i am exaggerating a bit of course), this cant have been the plan.

[dcro 10,210]

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Why does track cycling have these strange 'knock-out' rounds? 

 

Why not simply a qualifying on time, then 1vs8 etc, and knock-out until the gold instead of strange stuff with only the top-4 still having a chance for gold, but 5-8 still in the race for bronze and so on? 

 

This format is good since it puts weight on each round, no room for conserving energy and blah blah in the first round.

Also, quarterfinals 1vs8 (...) would be less competitive, especially among women.