Track Cycling at the Cycling UCI World Championships 2023

[Benolympique 2,422]

Ranking olympic team sprint womens ? Thanks 

[Rafa Maciel 1,671]

18 minutes ago, Benolympique said:

Ranking olympic team sprint womens ? Thanks 

Bag of a fag-packet calculation:

 

[phelps 8,389]

a bit worrying performance by our men's quartet, but they said today's gonna be different

 

I just want to trust them, but I'm not sure right now they're good enough to match the Danes 

 

on the other hand, despite the 10th place, one more big improvement by our speed guys, almost 4/10 of a second taken off the National Record

 

now we're "only" 8/10 of a second outside the bronze medal contenders...in LA I think we'll be there

 

by the way, Predomo is already coming...yesterday he was the quickest among the final lap riders, even quicker than King Lavreysen 

 

we might have finally found a true heir of the great times featuring the Maspes, Gaiardoni and so on 

[OlympicsFan 860]

Depressing results for Germany. Only the female sprinters can compete for medals. The men have been shit for almost a decade now, the gap doesn't get any smaller. Right now i wouldn't even bet on Germany winning gold in women's team sprint in Paris, GB will probably have another big time drop next year. Would be interesting to know if men and women are using the same bike (in different sizes)?

Edited August 4, 2023 by OlympicsFan

[Gianlu33 5,362]

What disaster, we are otuside the top 4 

[phelps 8,389]

shitty result by our girls in the women's team pursuit

 

the world champions give up their title badly after finishing only 5th in the qualifiers (with an awful 4.5 sec distance from the leaders)

[Matteo92 107]

After the first day and a half of competition, I think the logical assumption is that almost all Italian riders are in terrible form 

[SalamAkhi 347]

37 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

by the way, Predomo is already coming...yesterday he was the quickest among the final lap riders, even quicker than King Lavreysen 

Lavreysen is not the finisher, he's always n°2. It was, as usual, Hoogland, who seems to be on a (relative) downward trajectory. But I feel he was in control yesterday, given the crazy first two laps. It may have been the fastest the NL have ever been since I don't remember seeing van den Berg closing in less than 17.1 (17.06).

[SalamAkhi 347]

37 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Depressing results for Germany. Only the female sprinters can compete for medals. The men have been shit for almost a decade now, the gap doesn't get any smaller. Right now i wouldn't even bet on Germany winning gold in women's team sprint in Paris, GB will probably have another big time drop next year. Would be interesting to know if men and women are using the same bike (in different sizes)?

Well, it seems the women have made huge progress after the appointment of Kaarle McCulloch, who appears to have left lately, so ...

Should they manage to find a better starter (which has always been their male counteparts' strength), they could become favorite.

[dodge 1,040]

Pretty much on par performance for the Italian women’s pursuit this year though. They’re a good bit behind GB, France and Germany in Europe alone

 

The top 9 today (including  in 9th) are all pretty much guaranteed Olympic qualification now IMO