Track Cycling UEC European Championships 2020

[heywoodu 15,253]

 

Huh, what are heats 1 and 2 in the first round?

 

We've got three heats there:

 

1st vs 6th

2nd vs 5th

3rd vs 4th

 

Any single one of them being excluded from the fight for gold would be incredibly unfair, surely I'm missing something here?  

[heywoodu 15,253]

It seems like it's indeed true, 3rd and 4th position means you're out of the gold medal hunt, whereas 5th and 6th place (with 6th being a full 4 seconds behind the top-4) still have a theoretical shot for gold  

 

This is just ridiculous. I mean, I've seen ridiculous things, but a last place - far, far, far away from the second-to-last place - giving you a better chance for gold than a 3rd place is high on the list. 

[Col_Frost 179]

This is stupid indeed. And now for example 1st team won't finish because of crash or something and 6th team has silver medal 

 

If they don't want make normal competition like two fastest time in final, next two in bronze (but then 1 round wouldn't be necessary) then they should make format when winners of 1v4 and 2v3 are in final and two fastest time from the rest in bronze medal race.

[SalamAkhi 323]

The UEC live timing is indeed quite awful, but at least we will enjoy some TV coverage ... First time seeing a 3-woman team sprint (barring the recent U23 Euro Champ with an oversized track) 

[dcro 10,210]

Great chance for Bulgaria to score a medal. Just a relegation needed.

[SalamAkhi 323]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

Great chance for Bulgaria to score a medal. Just a relegation needed.

Bulgaria with more medals than Germany, France and the Netherlands combined 

[Federer91 2,861]

Is the hockey glass around the track mandatory for such events? Don't remember having it before.

 

Our regular Eurosport commentator sounds so happy to be commentating from the track instead of the studio. 

[dcro 10,210]

Here we go. Starting from scratch.

 

It's a somewhat underrated event. Yes, it is similar to road racing, but everyone competes as an individual!

[Gianlu33 4,693]

Aaand it's gold for Belarus, the pelton goes for the silver

[dcro 10,210]

That was exciting.