Track Cycling UCI World Championships 2019

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 2/28/2019 at 6:29 PM, dcro said:

This evening session is delay after delay so far.

 

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I especially liked the men's keirin semi final being shot back, followed by 16 hours of discussions, resulting in....everybody restarting  

[Col_Frost 179]

  On 2/28/2019 at 8:20 PM, heywoodu said:

I especially liked the men's keirin semi final being shot back, followed by 16 hours of discussions, resulting in....everybody restarting  

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Rio de Janeiro style  

 

 women at last lap of pursuit Good for them that they had big advantage

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 2/28/2019 at 8:36 PM, Col_Frost said:

Rio de Janeiro style  

 

 women at last lap of pursuit Good for them that they had big advantage

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Spread their energy perfect then  

[Col_Frost 179]

  On 2/28/2019 at 8:41 PM, heywoodu said:

Spread their energy perfect then  

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Can't argue with that  

[phelps 7,862]

fireworks in the men's individual pursuit...

Weinstein was first credited with the unbelievable world record of 4.05.x and then saw his time corrected by good 4 seconds (still, 4.09 is a great time, indeed)...

then came the heat with the current world record holder Ashton Lambie and Filippo Ganna...and our star destroyed the American, riding a 4.07.456, just a couple of tenths slower than the WR...

and in the meantime, John Archibald (sea level WR holder since just a few weeks ago) rode a disappointing 4.16 and he's out of everything...

so, the Gold Medal ride will be between Ganna and Weinstein, meanwhile the Bronze medal ride will surprisingly feature Davide Plebani and Alexandr Evtushenko...

and the regrets for the unlucky outcome of the men's team pursuit grows and grows and grows...

Edited March 1, 2019 by phelps

[Gianlu33 4,750]

Bronze medal for Plebani, this was really unexpected. A very nice surprise from this WCh.

 

Now let's go Filippo

[Gianlu33 4,750]

World championship, amazing Ganna, amazing!

[Col_Frost 179]

Lee - Morton 1:0

 

Gold for  ? 

[phelps 7,862]

Filippooooo!!! 3rd world title for him...and he's only 22 (not to mention he did ride 4.07 twice in 5 hours or so)...

 

p.s. and what a point race! definitely one of the most exciting ever, full of action from start to finish with all the riders not trying to save energy at all...

well done, boys!

and congrats to Van Schip, who dominated the race by winning a lot of sprints and gaining good 3 laps (which rarely happens)...

 

but all the show we just saw, it won't happen in Tokyo, thanks to the geniuses running UCI and IOC, who think that those 2 events don't deserve the Olympic stage (meanwhile we will see amazing events like team sprint and omnium)...

[Col_Frost 179]

To be fair, point race was excluded because there had to be even number of men and women events. And there is still point race in omnium and there is madison which is also a point race  But I also think that classic point race should be in olympic program, individual pursuit and 500m/1km time trial also. But if I could decide what should be excluded I think that from sprint competitions it should be keirin (I really like team sprint, don't know why you don't) and from middles omnium. But before that I would excluded both BMXs because I hate those things  

Edited March 1, 2019 by Col_Frost