Track Cycling UCI World Cup 2019 - 2020

[Andry84 102]

This is not human, I hope there is something of fantastic in the bike, 4.02.6 at sea level is unbelievable

[heywoodu 15,141]

16 minutes ago, Andry84 said:

This is not human, I hope there is something of fantastic in the bike, 4.02.6 at sea level is unbelievable

Road cyclists showing those puny track specialists how it's done  

[phelps 7,675]

1 hour ago, Gianlu33 said:

Ganna broke again the world record, 4.02.647 for him

 

OMG!!!!!

 

I hope it's just him being the greatest specialist ever...

 

because this clocking frankly looks unreal...

 

 

p.s. by the way, now I want the Individual Pursuit in the Tokyo schedule...get rid of some farcical event like BMX Freestyle (to keep it within the UCI family) and give us this historical discipline back in the Olympic program!!!

[heywoodu 15,141]

Just now, phelps said:

 

OMG!!!!!

 

I hope it's just him being the greatest specialist ever...

 

because this clocking frankly looks unreal...

 

 

p.s. by the way, now I want the Individual Pursuit in the Tokyo schedule...get rid of some farcical event like BMX Freestyle (to keep it within the UCI family) and give us this historical discipline back in the Olympic program!!!

I don't really know why wanting the individual pursuit in the schedule (or any event) should have anything to do with news like this, but yeah, regardless of who's good at it the IP should be Olympic. Just like a decent omnium instead of the joke it is today.

[phelps 7,675]

Just now, heywoodu said:

I don't really know why wanting the individual pursuit in the schedule (or any event) should have anything to do with news like this, but yeah, regardless of who's good at it the IP should be Olympic. Just like a decent omnium instead of the joke it is today.

 

of course I was joking by saying I want the IP back right now because Italy have the best specialist in the world...

 

being a fraction more serious, however, I've always said that I'd like to see in the Olympic program the IP, the standalone Points Race and the standalone Elimination Race rather than the Omnium (which I never liked, even in the Rio format, despite gifting us of one of the most amazing fights in the sport between Viviani and Cavendish)...

 

and of course I'm the biggest fan of BMX Freestyle being thrown off the Olympic schedule, inependently from any further consideration (because it's one of those non-sports I hate so much -and, unless other disciplines of the same kind that at least have a wide number of Countries involved, this one is very much about 3/4 Nations in total)...

[dcro 10,210]

I just don't get the hate for omnium.

 

Omnium was always a highly artificial event with ever-changing formats. I'm completely fine with it having only endurance events, since there are no standalone endurance events to begin with...

[phelps 7,675]

Just now, dcro said:

I just don't get the hate for omnium.

 

Omnium was always a highly artificial event with ever-changing formats. I'm completely fine with it having only endurance events, since there are no standalone endurance events to begin with...

 

to me, it's like counting apples with pears...technically, it doesn't make any sense...

 

I prefer the standalone disciplines, as I wrote...

[heywoodu 15,141]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

I just don't get the hate for omnium.

 

Omnium was always a highly artificial event with ever-changing formats. I'm completely fine with it having only endurance events, since there are no standalone endurance events to begin with...

There should be though, points race, for example.

 

Thing is, omnium is always presented (even by it's name) as some sort of allround thing. And it just really, really isn't. I would really like an allround event, combining pure sprints and pure endurance (and no, an endurance event with some sprints in between doesn't count as a sprint event).

Edited November 3, 2019 by heywoodu

[dcro 10,210]

Just now, phelps said:

 

to me, it's like counting apples with pears...technically, it doesn't make any sense...

 

I prefer the standalone disciplines, as I wrote...

 

Me too. However, knowing IOC/UCi, that is not going to happen. Therefore, between the previous omnium and endurance omnium, I'll always pick the endurance omnium.

[heywoodu 15,141]

Just now, dcro said:

 

Me too. However, knowing IOC/UCi, that is not going to happen. Therefore, between the previous omnium and endurance omnium, I'll always pick the endurance omnium.

Good to know there was at least some TOISC-love, because here we are on entirely opposite sides. You see that, @Olympian1010?