Track Cycling UCI Nations Cup 2024

[Rafa Maciel 1,606]

  On 2/2/2024 at 2:54 AM, Adriano said:

The same names? I think this team is  safe for olympic direct quota.

Expand  

Yep - same squad that took bronze at Europeans and yeah they are safe for the quota but think they would have been hoping for a better ride given their recent form. 

[Rafa Maciel 1,606]

Women's team pursuit finals -  v  for gold. New Zealand posting fastest time at 4:09.259 compared to 4:11.438 for GB. 

Bronze final should be  v  with both teams riding a 4:15. 

[RussB 189]

Think GB were riding conservatively there…

[Rafa Maciel 1,606]

GB men up against New Zealand in the 1st round of the men's team pursuit with 3 of the 4 NZL riders being on the team in Glasgow when they won the bronze medal. It may not be the strongest field overall, but we should still get some pretty good indications of who is going to be in the mix for medals when it comes to Paris. 

[RussB 189]

Tarling put into the team for GBR to qualify for the gold medal race … exciting development as a preview for Paris

[Rafa Maciel 1,606]

 men team pursuit into gold final with time of 3:48.996 - just under a second ahead of . It's a good time without being great - at world champs last year it would have got them into the bronze medal match-up - but you have to think they still have more in the tank for the final.

 

Really surprised by  - it just hasn't clicked for them today despite have Ganna in the squad and after a relatively poor qualifying, they came off second best against  so will race for bronze. 

 

Think all GB cycling fans can breathe sigh of relief safe in the knowledge that the pursuit squad are very much back in a qualifying spot for Paris. 

 

 

[Rafa Maciel 1,606]

Very quick back of a fag packet calculation and I am tired so this could be wrong.....

 

If  win the men's team pursuit final then I think they would move up into 5th place in the Olympic rankings overtaking not only , but also  and .

 

They'd also be ahead of , but they still have their continental championship to come in the next few weeks so it would be temporary. 

 

[Rafa Maciel 1,606]

Team sprint 1st rounds completed and in the absence of Germany,  women looking good for gold although  posted their fastest time in a couple of years so GB can't take it for granted.

 

GB's men's sprint squad continue to be the weak link in the squad - although they won their heat, they were barely any quicker than they were in qualifying and were the only winning team that failed to break the 43 second barrier. 

[Rafa Maciel 1,606]

 take the win in women's team pursuit.  left themselves with just too much to down in the last few laps.

[RussB 189]

Seemed like a little bit of a tactical miscalculation there by GBR women. Left the Archibald charge a little too late to go down by 0.3