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Track Cycling 2016 Discussion Thread


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How does this work for the Olympics?

We have 3 good sprinters/keirin riders/team sprinters:
- Shanne Braspennincx (recovering)
- Laurine van Riessen
- Elis Ligtlee

We qualified in the team sprint, does that mean theoretically all 3 could go to the Olympics? For example Van Riessen/Ligtlee in the team sprint and sprint and Ligtlee/Braspennincx in the keirin?

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6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

How does this work for the Olympics?

We have 3 good sprinters/keirin riders/team sprinters:
- Shanne Braspennincx (recovering)
- Laurine van Riessen
- Elis Ligtlee

We qualified in the team sprint, does that mean theoretically all 3 could go to the Olympics? For example Van Riessen/Ligtlee in the team sprint and sprint and Ligtlee/Braspennincx in the keirin?

No, Netherlands have been given two athlete quotas in team sprint. The only way for all three to participate is by having one of them compete in the Omnium.

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2 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

No, Netherlands have been given two athlete quotas in team sprint. The only way for all three to participate is by having one of them compete in the Omnium.

So the Dutch athletes in the women's keirin and/or sprint will automatically come from the couple that is chosen for the team sprint? Supposing of course one of them won't do the omnium, because there's Kirsten Wild for that :p 

So basically, we have the maximum number of 8 male athletes for Rio and we'll have 3 women then (2 team sprint/sprint/keirin and 1 in omnium).

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Just now, heywoodu said:

So the Dutch athletes in the women's keirin and/or sprint will automatically come from the couple that is chosen for the team sprint? Supposing of course one of them won't do the omnium, because there's Kirsten Wild for that :p 

Pretty much. The Netherlands has qualified three female quotas in track cycling. They could add a fourth athlete by adding someone from a different cycling discipline to the track team.

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Just now, JoshMartini007 said:

Pretty much. The Netherlands has qualified three female quotas in track cycling. They could add a fourth athlete by adding someone from a different cycling discipline to the track team.

Well that's definitely not going to happen :d

Thanks!

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Overall this has been a poor showing for the America continent, especially in the men events. Only Venezuela qualified in a men's team event while Canada and United States only qualified in the women's team events. Colombia was entirely shut out as all of the nations have to rely on individual quotas in order to have a decent size team.

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Pretty bad results for us! No gold in womens sprint/mens team sprint, horrible result in mens sprint and mens team pursuit. We have a lot of work to do before Rio, especially in mens (team) sprint. I think GB will be favorite in mens omnium and both team pursuits. Germany will (hopefully) be favorite in mens team sprint, womens sprint, womens keirin and maybe mens keirin. In mens sprint it should be between Bauge, Kenny, Dimitriev and Glaetzer (i think Germany shouldnt compete in mens sprint). In womens team sprint China should be the favorite and in mens omnium it should be Colombia.

My predictions:

Womens team sprint: China gold, Germany/Russia silver/bronze

Womens sprint: Germany gold, China/Netherlands silver/bronze

Womens keirin: Germany gold, GB/Australia/Russia silver/bronze

Womens omnium: GB gold, USA silver, Many nations for bronze

Womens team pursuit: GB gold, USA silver, Australia/Canada bronze

Mens team sprint: Germany/New Zealand/France for gold/silver/bronze. Netherlands might win bronze, if Germany/France dont change their team.

Mens sprint: GB/France/Australia/Russia for the medals, Bötticher sadly wont compete and Niederlag probably wont make the team.

Mens keirin: Germany/GB/France for the medals.

Mens omnium: Colombia for gold, Many nations for silver/bronze

Mens team pursuit: GB/Australia for gold, Denmark and maybe New Zealand for bronze. Germany absolutely has the potential to fight for bronze, but somehow we managed to become 3s slower in the last 12 months, although we have a really young team. Italy came out of nowhere and might have a small chance for bronze.

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