Surreal

With Olympic silver medalist Tess Ledeux and 2025 World Champ Flora Tabanelli both still recovering from injury, Kirsty honestly has a genuine medal chance in Milan in the Big Air.

Any idea why Weston's start is about 2 tenths slower than last year? Injury issues?

Startlists for this weekend's races + results can be found here: IBSF Races and Results

I believe the ITT is on Wed 19 July while the track events start on Tue 25, definitely possible to double up for him. This all depends on if the ITT route being not too hilly for him though, otherwise I'll expect him just to do the track.

Legend

About Womens team sprint: Parris - Smith was particularly impressive, I believe she split within a tenth of Marchant's best ever split on the first lap. She's only 23 and rapidly improving, I think she'll take Marchant's P1 spot for good going forward. Men's team pursuit I'm not too worried about considering we almost had a B team. We were without stalwarts in Vernon and Hayter who would have made a massive difference + we could potentialy bring in Tarling and / or Junior WR holder Henry Hobbs going into LA. The Danish look phenomenal right now though.

Ohh yeah true, forgot about him. Just hope he doesnt decide to focus 100% on the road now that he's in the Visma dev. team for the next 2 years

Charlton and Tanfield looked decent for the IP later in the week but GB were desperately missing Vernon and Hayter in place of Tidball & Gill here- hopefully they'll be back in the lead up to LA (Maybe even Tarling for Tanfield could be an option by then - Vernon, Charlton, Tarling, Hayter would be an unbelievably strong quartet).

In hindsight, GB swapping out Ledingham-Horn for Turnbull on the final lap was the wrong call. He went 2 tenths slower than Ledingham Horn did in the previous rounds, it would not have been enough to beat the Dutch and Hoogland but they may have been able to break the British record of 41.7.

I dont think he did much wrong tbh. He played to his strengths as a strong 200 runner and got us the crucial more inside 2nd lane at the changeover, kept us in the medal conversation + still split a great 44.4. If we're looking for someone to blame it has to be Davey who split 45.7 at the start, almost a full second slower than his season's best and was why Harries had to go out fast. Yeargin also only split 50.7 which was about 6 tenths slower than the morning, and as she acknowledged in her interview she should've made her move on the backstraight and not left it to a last 100 burn up.

Honestly we need Hailey Duff in the squad too

And now a new WR in the Men's version for Richardson in a 9.041! This track is ridiculously fast due to its steep slope and at decent altitude too. Update: Richardson's WR will not be ratified, went on the apron during his effort

OMG new WR at Konya nations Cup by 19YO Yuan Liying for the flying 200! FIRST EVER WOMAN SUB-10!!! 9.976! This track is FAST and Yuan looks like a future star.

New British Record of 41.788 set by Radford - Richardson - Ledingham-Horn in the first round of the Team Sprint at the Konya Nations Cup. They just edged out the previous record of 41.814 done by Lowe - Turnbull - Carlin to take Olympic silver last year. Richardson has been in the GB setup for a few months and has already got a British Record! Radford & Ledingham - Horn are also both young with so much more potential. If anyone is going to end the Dutch domination of this event in the next few years, it will be this team.

Does anyone know if Laura Deas has retired?

I'm sorry but it's ridiculous they DQ'd him like what did he even do to receive the first yellow?

Carlin in the Keirin much more likely to medal than Evans in the Omnium.

So tomorrow we need either 2 Golds or 1 Gold and 3 silvers + hope France don't win any more Golds/Silvers tomorrow besides (hopefully) a silver in the Women's basketball final. Long shot but just about doable with Finucane, Campbell, French/Bryson, Carlin to come for us tomorrow.

Welp

Ohurougou 51.5, always seems to run slower on relays.

The Frenchman would've needed to run a 42.0 to catch us, definitely wasn't happening for them.

USA 0.15 away from the WR depite no Olympic champion in their lineup. Wow.

Great British record, as I thought Davey shouldn't have been in that team but it wouldn't have made a difference to the colour of the medal.

AHW - MHS - Davey - Dobson relay order, interesting to leave Reardon off this team.

She's been on a downard spiral since 2022, the same thing happened in the Worlds win in the Madison last year where Neah was dying in the last 20 laps of the race, thankfully that day Elinor helped them to just cling on. Don't know how some predicted Neah to get a medal and even challenge for Gold in the Omnium.