Day 4 in Copenhagn and as it's the weekend the action moves to the afternoon.
Shame really as I and many others will be watching CI and E3 before thinking of switching to this - but with CI due to finish about 16.00 and E3 between 16.30 - 17.00 that still leaves the Women's Sprint finals and the Madison to enjoy live
Todays schedule (following the minutes indicated)
15:00 - 18:45
15.00 W - Sprint 1/2 Final 1st heat 10
15.10 M - Sprint 1/4 Final (1st) 15
15.25 W - Sprint 1/2 Final 2nd heat 10
15.35 M - Sprint 1/4 Final (2nd) 15
15.50 W - Sprint 1/2 Final (3rd i.r.) 5
15.55 W - Omnium IV Points race 10 km 25
16.20 M - Sprint 1/4 Final (3rd i.r.) 5
16.25 W - Sprint Finals 3-4 & 1-2 (1st) 10
16.35 M - Madison 50 km Final 55
17.25 M - Sprint 5th to 8th places 5
17.30 M - Madison 50 km Award ceremony 10
17.40 W - Sprint Finals 3-4 & 1-2 (2nd) 10
17.50 W - Omnium Final 500m t.t. 25
18.15 W - Sprint Finals 3-4 & 1-2 (3rd) 5
18.20 W - Omnium Award ceremony 10
18.30 W - Sprint Award ceremony 10
International ES stream available from 17.00 here.
The Women's sprint races have been onesided so far as the big 4 have been kept separate in the draw - but game on today. All too difficult to call with confidence
Line up
Semi 1 - Shuang Guo (Chn) v Simona Krupeckaite (Ltu)
Semi 2 - Anna Meares (Aus) v Vicky Pendleton (Gbr)
The Mens Sprints qualifying this morning produced one or two seemingly unexpected results - in full here. Bauge qualified fastest, then Hoy. But then Hoy is beaten by Forstemann (with Hoy then having to qualify through the repercharge along with Crampton - mainly at the expense of Awang (Mal) who misses out). This means the 1/4 finals look like this:
Race 1 - Gregory Bauge (Fra) v Chris Hoy (Gbr) OMG!
Race 2 - Matt Crampton (Gbr) v Robert Forstemann (Ger)
Race 3 - Shane Perkins (Aus) v Francois Pervis (Fra)
Race 4 - Kevin Sireau (Fra) v Jason Kenny (Gbr)
The Madison line up - headed by the home crowd favourites, Meyer seeking his third gold and several old friends from the 6 days - is as follows. Expect the atmosphere in the velodrome to be boisterous throughout.
1 BLACK DEN MORKOV Michael
RED RASMUSSEN Alex
2 BLACK AUS HOWARD Leigh
RED MEYER Cameron
3 BLACK CZE BLAHA Martin
RED HOCHMANN Jiri
4 BLACK ARG DONADIO Sebastian
RED PEREZ Walter Fernando
5 BLACK AUT GRAF Andreas
RED TAZREITER Georg
6 BLACK BEL DE POORTERE Ingmar
RED SCHETS Steve
7 BLACK ESP ELORRIAGA ZUBIAUR Unai
RED TAULER LLULL Antonio
8 BLACK FRA KNEISKY Morgan
RED RIBLON Christophe
9 BLACK GER BARTKO Robert
RED KLUGE Roger
10 BLACK HKG CHOI Ki Ho
RED WONG KamPo
11 BLACK ITA CICCONE Angelo
RED VIVIANI Elia
12 BLACK NED SCHEP Peter
RED STAM Danny
13 BLACK NZL RYAN Marc
RED SCULLY Thomas
14 BLACK POL BUJKO Lukasz
RED GLOWACKI Dawid
15 BLACK RUS KOLESNIKOV Sergey
RED SHMIDT Alexey
16 BLACK SUI AESCHBACH Alexander
RED MARVULLI Franco
17 BLACK UKR LAGKUTI Sergiy
RED RADIONOV Mykhaylo
18 BLACK USA HOLLOWAY Daniel
RED PEARCE Colby