Track Cycling UCI World Championships 2017

[dcro 10,210]

Track Cycling UCI World Championships 2017

 

Hong Kong (HKG) - 12 April 2017 - 16 April 2017

 

 

Totallympics Results Thread

[heywoodu 15,353]

USA vs Italy and Australia vs Canada in the semi's of the women's team pursuit at the world championships. GBR, NZL, FRA and POL still have a chance for bronze. No major surprise so far I guess. 

[Gianlu33 4,749]

World Champs starts whit a surprise, Great Britain only 5th in women's pursuit!

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 4/12/2017 at 7:52 AM, Gianlu33 said:

World Champs starts whit a surprise, Great Britain only 5th in women's pursuit!

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I doubt that's really a surprise, it's not the Olympics anymore so one just can't expect GBR to be nearly as good as last year in Rio  

[heywoodu 15,353]

GBR goes home with 3 silver medals and 5 bronze medals by the way, according to my prediction contest results  

 

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Which, apart from putting GBR down the rankings because it's not the Olympics, I mostly filled in like this:

 

 

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

Yup, they are going to be nowhere until Tokyo, when suddenly some technology will get them 80% of gold medals.

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 4/12/2017 at 7:55 AM, dcro said:

Yup, they are going to be nowhere until Tokyo, when suddenly some technology will get them 80% of gold medals.

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Some of them are now apparently riding on bikes made for the Athens Games because the supersonic bikes for the 2016 Olympics are pretty much all broken  

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-4366064/GB-ride-13-year-old-bikes-Track-World-Championships.html

[heywoodu 15,353]

By the way, I'm sure GBR will bag a couple of medals here. If that's 'nowhere', I'd glady see the Netherlands be 'nowhere' 

[heywoodu 15,353]

The Dutch team has had such a weird race  

 

Germany was 0,3s faster after 2000m, then 2,4s faster after 3000m....and at the finish they were 0,055 slower  (and they're definitely not the only team winning a lot on the Dutch between 2-3km)

[heywoodu 15,353]

Very fast time for New Zealand