Track Cycling at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[heywoodu 15,332]

  On 8/5/2021 at 7:16 AM, dcro said:

What repechage? There are no more repechage races in keirin.

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Huh, three quarterfinals where the top-4 qualifies apparently makes 12 riders, not 9. I blame a lack of sleep!

[Nickyc707 382]

  On 8/5/2021 at 7:16 AM, Orangehair43 said:

UK sport have been looking for a opportunity to de fund British Cycling - the public here in the UK are seeing the Track Cycling as sudden flop so that will be the excuse needed to cut funding heavily. 

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You have a tendency to equate your views with those of the wider public. Your prophet of doom predictions haven't stood up to much scrutiny so far but we'll see.

[NearPup 3,155]

Canadian rider is going to get relegated (sprinter's lane violation), right?

[Orangehair43 254]

The BBC live feed is once again full of comments angry at the officiating in track cycling. Starting to become an issue here in th Uak for the reputation of the entire sport.

[heywoodu 15,332]

Lavreysen vs Kenny in the QF

[heywoodu 15,332]

  On 8/5/2021 at 7:25 AM, Orangehair43 said:

The BBC live feed is once again full of comments angry at the officiating in track cycling. Starting to become an issue here in th Uak for the reputation of the entire sport.

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And the reputation was already horrible after Cavendish somehow wasn't DQ'ed in Rio.

[OlympicsFan 860]

Absolutely disgusting performance by the German women in keirin. I thought that gold and silver was a given, but now they are beaten by complete no-names.

[heywoodu 15,332]

Van Riessen lost consciousness for a bit, but did regain it and was awake and alert when being brought to the hospital.

[dcro 10,210]

So sad that OBS commentators are mostly no longer available on the Eurosport player. These ESP commentators can be truly insufferable.

[dcro 10,210]

Van Schip trolling everyone.