Track Cycling UEC European Championships 2018

[dcro 10,210]

Track gold + medal in an Olympic event for . Did not see that coming.

[dcro 10,210]

"European championships jersey to take back east..." -commentator

 

Oh oh, but Russia is not east.

[heywoodu 15,253]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

Track gold + medal in an Olympic event for . Did not see that coming.

But sort of humiliated by Russia. Not the first time in recent years

 

[hckošice 15,029]

Women´s Team Sprint

 

1. Russia   (Voinova/Shmeleva), 2. Ukraine   (Basova/Starikova), 3. Germany   (Welte/Hinze)

[heywoodu 15,253]

Has France started yet?

[Dragon 1,887]

5 hours ago, dcro said:

Looks like GBR again doesn't want to qualify in women's team sprint.

2016 was a failure because of 1 rider poisoning the atmosphere in the team. 2020 might be a failure because all the good sprinters except one have retired,

7 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Not necessarily, but to be fair: one can assume that when you go from 1 crappy track to 5 modern tracks and combine that with a huge PR machine and huge funding, it does deliver some noticeable results  

The funding came from the success that came from training in the new velodromes.

Edited August 3, 2018 by Dragon

[hckošice 15,029]

Men´s Team Sprint

 

1. Netherlands   (Hoogland/Lavreysen/Van Den Berg), 2. France   (Vigier/Pervis/Lafargue), 3. Germany   (Botticher/Bichler/Eilers)

[hckošice 15,029]

5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Has France started yet?

 

 

Massively impressive domination this was I must say. Respect !

[dcro 10,210]

I can't remember any remotely serious sports competition where on-screen timings were THIS bad... And it's not going away.

 

 

[heywoodu 15,253]

Büchli being somewhat underestimated by being put against some Georgian guy 

 

59.7, that's a very serious chance for gold