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Olympic Cycling Races

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  • August 12, 2012 at 7:47 pm #16554
    Gkam84

    Right, someone correct me if i’m wrong here.

    Track cycling got some events cut and countries only able to enter one rider per event.

    The events were cut to make room for the BMX and MTB races?

    So why in BMX and MTB were countries able to enter multiple riders?

    I’m not trying to take anything away from these events, but i’m just curious as to why it worked that way and if it was the case, why did we only enter on in each of those extra races?? 😕

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  • August 14, 2012 at 1:47 pm #695263
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    drheaton

    Not sure the Australian
    Not sure the Australian pursuit is serious enough to be included in the Olympics, seems a bit of fun and a bit of a laugh compared to the individual TT, plus, you’d only have one of those two in the competition.

    August 14, 2012 at 1:36 pm #695261
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    Raleigh

    Don’t forget the Aussie.
    Don’t forget the Aussie.

    August 14, 2012 at 1:03 pm #695259
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    drheaton

    Nooo, keep the Omnium, I like
    Nooo, keep the Omnium, I like it, it’s the track cycling equivalent of the Pentathlon, plus, the more Laura Trott the better…

    Ideally I’d like to see:

    Keirin
    Individual Sprint
    Team Sprint
    Individual Pursuit
    Team Pursuit
    Omnium
    Kilo
    Maddison
    Points or Scratch race

    all for each sex. Basically most of the World Champs calendar. Given how popular track cycling is I can’t see the problem in expanding the time spent in the Velodrome although TV executives may not like having the cycling overlapping the swimming or athletics more but the track cycling this year all finished at around 6pm, well before the swimming and athletics finals started.

    August 14, 2012 at 12:46 pm #695257
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    Raleigh

    Do you think they’ll have DH
    Do you think they’ll have DH anytime soon in the Mclympics?

    The Women’s TP is being made 4km with 4 riders.

    Cool.

    And apparently they’re bringing back the Kilo. While they’re at it, they should rid of the Omnium, and introduce the Aussie Pursuit, Points Race and Scratch.

    That would be an exciting programme.

    And Introduce Hutch’s stage race: a three week tour of the host country with small teams, a separate TT not counting towards overall, and medals only for the GC at the end.

    ANNNNDD

    Introduce things like 10, 25, 50, 12 and 24 TTs.

    And a TTT, both two up and 9 up.

    Now we’re talking.

    August 14, 2012 at 10:51 am #695255
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    Darthshearer

    We only entered Annie Last &
    We only entered Annie Last & Liam Killeen because thats all we were allowed to enter after the amount of points those two collected over the time.

    The French have Julie Bresset & Julian Absolon, Maxine Morrat, Tempier in the top 20 so they got more points.

    We have some great up and coming MTB XC riders so hopefully come Rio it will still be in and we should have a couple more places.

    August 14, 2012 at 10:42 am #695253
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    drheaton

    As I’ve said elsewhere, the
    As I’ve said elsewhere, the best way to break the GB dominance is to add more events to the track cycling at the Olympics and allow more than one entry per nation.

    At the minute there are a maximum of ten medals on offer for each nation, compare that to the medals on offer in the pool or in the athletics which have far higher. Because there are far fewer medals on offer a lot of countries like China or US might not fund cycling to the level that GB does and so end up not doing as well.

    Increase the total medals available to 16 or 20 (ie 8 or 10 events per sex) and allow multiple entries. That will mean that in the short term GB may win 25 or 30 medals, but in the long term Australia, USA, China or many other countries may see the track as somewhere they can potentially get medals and they’ll start to throw money at their cycling programs. In the long term that’ll break the GB dominance and spread the medals around as well as increasing the amount of cycling on offer pleasing the spectators who’ve really taken to it in the recent Olympics.

    August 14, 2012 at 10:30 am #695251
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    cborrman

    there were some rumours
    there were some rumours around allegedly the French bodies that regulate these rules trying to minimise a repeat of the British dominance of Beijing… but I would like to add that I would not stand by the rumours on the ground that they could be just spurious, and even if they were true they were about as successful as a beure teapot – LOL 😀

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