Nish

Part 3

Team NZ part 2

TEAM NZ ANNOUNCED FOR TRACK CYCLING

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6 hours ago, TeamGB said:

@Nish

 

Who's right?

You are correct as I meant 2 in swimming. I meant 1 for Clareburt (most likely 400m IM as he has the fastest time this year) and 1 for Fairweather (either 200m or 400m FS)

2 minutes ago, Rafa Maciel said:

Team Sprint or should that be Team Pursuit?

Yeah I meant pursuit sorry haha. It’s 2am here. I should be asleep

Gold for Andrews, Gate, Wollaston and chances for Men’s Madison and Women’s team pursuit is there too

Predication for NZ by Gracenote seemed bit off as usual. 
 

I’d say 22-25 is a possibility 

Athletics: 2 to 3 - Kerr for High Jump, Walsh for shotput and McCartney for pole vault.

Canoeing - 1 Slalom (Luuka Jones for KX), 4 x for Sprint (K1 500 - 2 Fisher and Carrington, K2 500 Carrington & Hoskins, K4 500) 5 in total

Rugby 7s - Both men’s and women’s. 2

Cycling - Track - 6 (W Keirin, W Sprint, W Omnium, W Team Sprint, M Madison and M Omnium). Mountain Biking - Sam Gaze - 7 in total 

Rowing - 4 (both men’s and women’s single sculls, men’s 4s, women’s 4s)

Triathlon - 1 for Wilde 

Golf - Ko for women’s 

Swimming - 2 Clareburt and Fairweather 1 x each

Equestrian - 1 x for team eventing or atleast individual for Tim Price 

Sailing - 3 outside chances but it really depends on their day. 

Trampoline - maybe if Dylan delivers 2022 WC again

31 minutes ago, Rafa Maciel said:

I don't think anyone has been discounting either Andrews or Bayona - we're simply saying that based on past experience, the keirin is the most unpredictable event in track cycling for the sprinters and there is no clear medal favourite. 

 

From my perspective, I wouldn't be reading too much into the results of the TCL - it took place at a time when the riders were still in heavy training and the format differences doesn't necessarily give a good read across to what will happen in Paris. 

Fair enough. Don’t agree with it. But surely wouldn’t rate Dutch and British girls as favourites. But sure let’s wait for next few months. We shall see. 

2 minutes ago, Rafa Maciel said:

To be fair I think we've all followed every major track cycling event in the last 14 months . I don't think @heywooduis too far out by saying there's 10-15 riders with significant medal chances - after all, all that means is that anyone who gets themselves into a semi-final is in with a medal shout.

 

And for what it's worth, here's my take on the 10-15 genuine medal chances and why I think they are in the mix:

 

 Emma Finucane & Katy Marchant - Finucane is European silver medalist, won the event in HK and is the cyclist probably in the best form whilst Marchant took silver in Adelaide. Could even make an argument in favour of Sophie Capewell.

 Emma Hinze & Lea Friedrich - Hinze took silver in Hong Kong whilst Friedrich is European Champions, was 8th in Hong Kong and 6th in Adelaide. 

 Mina Sato - Champion in Adelaide and 5th in Hong Kong.

 Mathilde Gros - 4th in the Europeans, 7th in Adelaide and 6th in Hong Kong - will also have home town advantage and unlikely to have the additional 3 rides from team sprint. 

 Hetty van de Wouw & Steffie van der Peet - van de Wouw was bronze medalist at Europeans and 4th at Worlds in Glasgow whilst van der Peet made the small final in Hong Kong and in Glasgow. 

 Ellesse Andrews - '23 World Champ and UCI TCL Champion. Will be interesting to see how she performs on her return from injury. 

 Nicky Degrendele - 5th at the Europeans, 4th in Hong Kong and made the small final in Adelaide. 

 Martha Bayona - silver medalist at last year's world champs and made the small final in Adelaide.

 Lauriane Genest - silver medalist at '23 PanAm champs and bronze medalist in Adelaide.

 

That's a fairly easy list of 12 names and there are more besides.

 

i am sorry I get your point but head to head is what I am going by. Just coz Andrews and Bayona hasn’t competed in this latest edition of Nations cup doesn't put them out of contention. Less than 6-8 months ago Andrews and Bayona were dominating both World Cup followed by UCI Track Champs league which featured many names of list above. Any doubt raised for Andrews should be cleared in a months time. I mean many don’t even list her a contender until I mentioned her just now. 

Men’s Omnium

1. Aaron Gate - NZL

2. Dylan Bibic - CAN

3. Benjamin Thomas - FRA

Women’s Omnium 

1. Ally Wollaston - NZL

2. Katie Archibald - GBR 

3. Jennifer Valente - USA

42 minutes ago, Nish said:

Predict your top 3 for every event for track cycling. Potentially using Nations Cup and World Champs from last year as your reference. 

 

Men’s Omnium

1. Aaron Gate - NZL

2. Dylan Bibic - CAN

3. Benjamin Thomas - FRA

 

Women’s Omnium 

1. Ally Wollaston - NZL

2. Katie Archibald - GBR 

3. Jennifer Valente - USA

 

Men’s Madison

1. Aaron Gate 

2.

3.

 

Women’s Madison

1.

2.

3

 

Men’s Team Pursuit 

1.

2.

3

 

Women’s Team Pursuit 

1.

2.

3

 

Men’s Keirin

1.

2.

3

 

Women’s Keirin

1.

2.

3

 

Men’s Sprint 

1.

2.

3

 

Women’s Sprint

1.

2.

3

 

Men’s Team Sprint

1.

2.

3

Women’s Team Sprint

 

Predict your top 3 for every event for track cycling. Potentially using Nations Cup and World Champs from last year as your reference. 

Men’s Omnium

1.

2.

3

Women’s Omnium 

1.

2.

3

Men’s Madison

1.

2.

3.

Women’s Madison

1.

2.

3

Men’s Team Pursuit 

1.

2.

3

Women’s Team Pursuit 

1.

2.

3

Men’s Keirin

1.

2.

3

Women’s Keirin

1.

2.

3

Men’s Sprint 

1.

2.

3

Women’s Sprint

1.

2.

3

Men’s Team Sprint

1.

2.

3

Women’s Team Sprint

1.

2.

3

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Yep, that's what I meant with her being very much a contender in the big mix. There's a whole bunch of contenders who have all worked super hard for it (presumably all of them 'want it the most', and that kind of thing), and if there's one unpredictable event, it's the keirin. Gonna be fun, at least 10-15 riders have a significant medal shot and the fight for gold is most likely going to be fantastically tight  

10-15? That’s a bit too much mate. Genuinely Andrews, Bayona, Friedrich, Sato, Hinze are in the mix for medals. Have followed every major track cycling event in last 14 months 

Just now, heywoodu said:

Yep, yet another one of many, many contenders for the medals.

She’s done everything to be the top medal contender. World champ last year. Super leagues champs. CWG champ. She’s worked hardest for it. Very good contender for a medal in Sprint too. But Keirin looks to be what she’s worked hard for

On 3/17/2024 at 10:00 PM, Josh said:

Personally, I’d say even more than a contender. Right now she’s the favourite for gold at Paris (very slightly), and even if she doesn’t win gold I don’t see her missing the podium. But who knows, the Olympics always tend to produce a lot of surprises 

Ellesse Andrews returns in 3 weeks in 3rd round of Nations Cup. She’s aiming that Olympic gold. She’s worked hard for it. Dominated Keirin for past 2 years