Track Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

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Gold for Benjamin Thomas, what a relief 

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Men's Omnium
Final Results

 

Benjamin THOMAS
164

 

Iuri LEITAO
153

 

Fabio Van den BOSSCHE
131

 

Full Final Results HERE

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Historical silver medal in track cycling for  !!!! Giant Iuri!!! So proud of this guy!

 

 

Honest question: when Benjamin Thomas fell and got back to the race, did he had to run extra laps to catch up with the rest or does the rules say that you come back and are automatically at the same place as the rest of the gang?

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  On 8/8/2024 at 6:33 PM, kungshamra71 said:

Historical silver medal in track cycling for  !!!! Giant Iuri!!! So proud of this guy!

 

 

Honest question: when Benjamin Thomas fell and got back to the race, did he had to run extra laps to catch up with the rest or does the rules say that you come back and are automatically at the same place as the rest of the gang?

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You are allowed I think 5 laps free.

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  On 8/8/2024 at 6:33 PM, kungshamra71 said:

Historical silver medal in track cycling for  !!!! Giant Iuri!!! So proud of this guy!

 

 

Honest question: when Benjamin Thomas fell and got back to the race, did he had to run extra laps to catch up with the rest or does the rules say that you come back and are automatically at the same place as the rest of the gang?

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This is because the rules give a rider who has fallen five laps to rejoin the peloton without incurring penalties.

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Mateusz Rudyk finished 5th in individual sprint, best our result in track cycling since 1988 Well done Mateusz, he proved everyone that he can be in top in the world despite all those paper and health problems 

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  On 8/8/2024 at 6:04 PM, Dkats said:

 

They should bring back the time trial also 

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No, that would absolutely be a bad idea. They should try to only have events where the riders directly compete against each other, so no team sprint/pursuit. Most federations are run by complete retards that don’t even try to make their sport as watchable/easy to follow as possible. Almost makes you wish that those sports get thrown out of the Olympics.

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Track cycling, like bob/luge/skeleton/canoeing, should force all athletes to use the same material. In the end the results don’t really tell us much about who is the best in a certain event, which kind of is the exact opposite of what sport should be.

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It is also interesting the evolution of track cycling in Portugal.

 

The sport was pretty much inexistent until they decided to build a national velodrome about 15 years ago or so, and even though the result has not been incredible good (only iuri so far), there are now much more kids and youngsters cycling indoors than before 
 

I would hope such a medal on a country that has so few that we all know our medalist names (it’s not that difficult when it’s just two per year haha) will increase the interest in track cycling, but it’s difficult in a football-centered country: yesterday I checked Portuguese tv, they did showed the news but spent much of the night talking about possible transfers of Portuguese football clubs….

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  On 8/8/2024 at 6:04 PM, Dkats said:

 

They should bring back the time trial also 

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Yep, the track cycling programme has lots of room to improve. You know, like this nonsense omnium format, like the individual pursuit that just should never have been taken out. Other sports and stuff are added left and right and things like track cycling get their programmes undressed bit by bit.

Edited August 9, 2024 by heywoodu