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Track Cycling 2023 Discussion Thread

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Well-trodden path from speed skating to cycling of course, but not everyone does it this way.

 

 

Romanian-Canadian Olympic speed skater Alexandra Ianculescu has taken her career in a different direction, joining OnlyFans to support her bid for an appearance at the 2024 Summer Olympics. 
 

Ianculescu competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics for Romania and has since set her sights on Paris 2024 as a cyclist with Canada - and has joined the platform mainly utilized by sex workers - though it is used for other purposes - to help fund her dreams.

 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-11960651/Olympian-Alexandra-Ianculescu-turns-OnlyFans-survive-help-achieve-Paris-2024-dreams.html#comments

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Just noticed this:

 

Kaarle McCulloch to step down as GBCT women's sprint podium coach (britishcycling.org.uk)

 

McCulloch has been a huge asset for Team GB and her departure will be a big blow for them in the run up to Paris.

 

Since the retirement of Victoria Pendleton, we've struggled on the women's sprint side of things, but the team are in a good place for qualification and hopefully can take advantage of the home crowd to bank some big points at the world champs in Glasgow. 

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On 6/26/2023 at 7:23 AM, Rafa Maciel said:

Just noticed this:

 

Kaarle McCulloch to step down as GBCT women's sprint podium coach (britishcycling.org.uk)

 

McCulloch has been a huge asset for Team GB and her departure will be a big blow for them in the run up to Paris.

 

Since the retirement of Victoria Pendleton, we've struggled on the women's sprint side of things, but the team are in a good place for qualification and hopefully can take advantage of the home crowd to bank some big points at the world champs in Glasgow. 

Missed the announcement of McCulloch's replacement last month with British Cycling opting for a safe pair of hands:

 

Scott Pollock to return to British Cycling as women's podium sprint coach

 

With them looking at Emma Finucane to have the potential to win 3 medals next year, it is probably one of the most important coaching decisions they will have made in a long time.

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:ITA Vittoria Bussi just got back the hour record

 

in Aguascalientes, she became the first woman to break the 50km mark, riding 50.267 kms in 60 minutes

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First leg of the UCI Track Champions League Track Cycling in Mallorca:

 

 

Sprint Events

 

Women's Sprint

1.) :GER Alessa-Catriona Propster

2.) :GBR Emma Finucane

 

The final was a repeat of the European Under-23 sprint final - both in terms of the cyclists involved and the end result. 

 

Women's Keirin

1.) :NZL Ellesse Andrews

2.) :COL Martha Bayona

3.) :GER Alessa-Catriona Propster

 

:GBR Emma Finucane failed to make the final - whilst she has made great strides in the individual sprint event, her tactics in the keirin are still questionable. Would love to see Chris Hoy getting involved in the squad and helping develop her keirin racing a bit more. 

 

Men's Sprint:

1.) :NED Harri Lavreysen

2.) :FRA Tom Derache

 

Men's Keirin:

1.) :NED Harri Lavreysen

2.) :COL Kevin Quintero

3.) :AUS Matthew Richardson

 

 

 

Endurance Events

 

Men's Scratch

1.) :JPN Eiya Hashimoto

2.) :GBR Mark Stewart

3.) :BEL Tuur Dens

 

Men's Elimination

1.) :CAN Dylan Bibic

2.) :GBR William Tidball

3.) :BEL Jules Hesters

 

 

Women's Scratch

1.) :USA Lily Williams

2.) :GBR Katy Archibald

3.) :CAN Maggie Coles-Lyster

 

Women's Elimination

1.)  :GBR Katy Archibald

2.) :NOR Anita Stenberg

3.) :USA Lily Williams

 

:GBR Archibald looked to be racing with a lot more freedom than we saw at Glasgow.

 

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Within now and a few minutes, Jeffrey Hoogland is going to attack Francois Pervis' 1km world record in Aguascalientes. The goal is to break Pervis' 56.303 seconds.

 

There's a live stream here, not sure it's available outside the Netherlands.

https://www.ad.nl/wielrennen/live-bekijk-de-wereldrecordpoging-van-jeffrey-hoogland-vanaf-20-45-uur-exclusief-via-onze-site~acfaf934/

 

Personally I find it super cool to have a record attempt for this, besides the hour records we're sort of used to, but also it's a bit sad to see this being done in some 'atmosphereless' hall with 5 people present or so :p 

 

By the way, Pervis himself said he thinks Hoogland can break his record by 3 seconds, which would of course be insane. Then again, it's definitely not impossible. When Pervis said his 56.3 seconds, he was usually riding times of around 1 minute on sea level. Hoogland has been consistently going far under that, even going to low 58's...on sea level. Wouldn't be shocked to see a 54.x seconds.

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