London Track World Cup day 2 - live!!
by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 1:38 PM EST
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PrintFriday 17th February, from 19:00 GMT, 20:00 CET;
5:30am Adelaide; 2pm USA Eastern; 10am USA Pacific
It's the final round of the 2011-12 Track World Cup, for vital Olympic qualifying points, and the first event in the London Olympic velodrome! And there are streams every day! Roll up for some super-exciting track fun!
So, what's happened so far?
Well yesterday, we had the Team Pursuit qualifying, with Canada and GB getting to the final, Australia and Netherlands to the race for bronze for the women, which are raced tonight, and Australia v GB for gold and New Zealand v Belgium for bronze in the men's, which will be raced on Sunday.
This morning we had the first ever World Record in the new velodrome, as Australia's Anna Meares & Kaarle McCulloch rode an amazing 32.828 in the team sprint - they'll go up against Great Britain's Vicky Pendleton & Jess Varnish tonight, while France races China for bronze; in the men's team sprint, Germany will race France for gold, and Australia v GB for bronze, also tonight.
In the men's omnium, leads, and the elimination race is tonight - there have been 2 rounds so far, the flying lap and the points, and current standings look like this:
1. Juan Esteban ARANGO (Col), 4 points
2. Elia VIVIANI (Ita) 11
3. Zach BELL (Can) 12
4. Bryan COQUARD (Bel) 14
5. Ho Sung CHO (Kor) 14
6. Roger KLUGE (Ger) 15
7. Martyn IRVINE (Ire) 15
8. Eloy TERUEL ROVIRA (Spa) 16
9. Hao LIU (MSP) 18
10. Shane ARCHBOLD (NZ) 22, with about 4 others!
We'll also have the women's scratch (startlist), men's kilo time trial (startlist) & men's points race (startlist)
My VERY ROUGH timetable for tonight on the track - see more here, and don't take my word for it, I really can't add....
18:45 Women's scratch
19:05 Women's team sprint
19:31 Women's team pursuit
19:46 Men's team sprint
20:04 Men's kilo
20:52 Men's points
21:40 Men's omnium elimination
Check out Sum of Marc's previews of the event
You can see the startlists and results via Tissot and live results there too - and there is tv coverage! If you're in the UK, check out BBC2, the red button & streaming on the BBC website - everyone else, see See CyclingFans and Sports-livez - and if you have other links that are country-specific, add them to the links!
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The women Scratch riders are on the track right now!
Coverage should start in time to see the end of their race, I hope!
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TV is live - but it's interviews & stuff, not racing yet....
(Vicky Pendleton, depressed as ever)
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Haha, yes!
Australia silver, China bronze
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 2:13 PM EST up reply actions
WOW! AMAZING RIDE and another new World Record!!!!
I was convinced it would be Meares & McCulloch!!! Amazing stuff! Beautiful ride!!
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So after all these years of saying I just can't see what's so interesting about track...
…I just watched Pendleton and Varnish teach the Aussies a thing or two about cycling.
Hallelujah! I have seeeeeeeeen the light!
I saw a baby that looked like Cadel Evans the other day...
Haha! It's great, isn't it?
Any Qs you have about track, to make it easier to follow, ask away!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 2:20 PM EST up reply actions
It's a bit too fast and furious
I’ll probably think of things in the coming days and get your nerves by asking tons of stuff. :-)
I saw a baby that looked like Cadel Evans the other day...
by John Cyclopunk on Feb 17, 2012 2:22 PM EST up reply actions
Please do - track is my first love, & it'll stop me weeping that I couldn't get tickets
If you like it on tv, you really should try to see some in real life. We went to the world cup in Manchester for the last 4-5 years, and it is about a thousand times more exciting when you’re there (I cheered so much i pulled all the muscles in my arms, and couldn’t speak for 3 days, after i lost my voice, cheering!)
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 2:24 PM EST up reply actions
In about 1986...
they were going to build an Olympic-standard velodrome in the town where I grew up. I’ve never been into track, but if they’d built it chances are I’d have become addicted (I might even be competing, who knows?)
Sadly, like anything that might turn out to be remotely interesting or worthwhile in that town, it didn’t happen.
I saw a baby that looked like Cadel Evans the other day...
by John Cyclopunk on Feb 17, 2012 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
Ooh, those silvery-grey skinsuits are LOVELY
I saw a baby that looked like Cadel Evans the other day...
I was just thinking FUGLY!
It’s a trade team kit – they’re allowed national teams and trade teams, so you might see Cofidis, Giant, Sky etc turning up!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 2:22 PM EST up reply actions
I like the Chinese red and gold too.
I saw a baby that looked like Cadel Evans the other day...
by John Cyclopunk on Feb 17, 2012 2:28 PM EST up reply actions
I want to keep an eye out for Catalunya
Alba Diez tweets quite a lot, which always makes me feel like I actually know someone so I’m hoping she does well!
I saw a baby that looked like Cadel Evans the other day...
by John Cyclopunk on Feb 17, 2012 2:30 PM EST up reply actions
oooh, what's her name there?
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 2:33 PM EST up reply actions
@alba_diez – not too imaginative.
I saw a baby that looked like Cadel Evans the other day...
by John Cyclopunk on Feb 17, 2012 2:54 PM EST up reply actions
Startlists and live timing app
Womens TP
For Bronze
AUS Australia
2 EDMONDSON Annette
103 CURE Amy
107 TOMIC Josephine
NED Netherlands
44 WILD Kirsten
258 KOEDOODER Vera
260 VAN DIJK Ellen
For Gold
CAN Canada
7 WHITTEN Tara
126 CARLETON Gillian
127 GLAESSER Jasmin
GBR Great Britain
24 TROTT Laura
190 KING Danielle
192 ROWSELL Joanna
I've never heard of Carleton & Glaesser
but it shows how strong Canada’s track programme is at the moment, they seem to have 6 riders capable of getting into the Olympic team!
(Tara whitten – who is in the middle of a neuroscience PhD, only moved from skiing about 5 years ago and all round superhero, could probably win a TP alone!)
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 2:28 PM EST up reply actions
Tara Whitten's track abilities impress hugely
Was a cert for FSA DSW team until remembered Oly year. May pick her regardless.
She's pretty much a cert for the Worlds ITT
well, I think so!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 2:32 PM EST up reply actions
I think this may be one of Glaesser's first non-North American races
so she’s fairly unknown elsewhere. Won the Tour de White Rock last year, I believe.
I saw a baby that looked like Cadel Evans the other day...
by John Cyclopunk on Feb 17, 2012 2:32 PM EST up reply actions
Ah, no she didn’t – she was second behind Laura Brown.
I saw a baby that looked like Cadel Evans the other day...
by John Cyclopunk on Feb 17, 2012 2:37 PM EST up reply actions
Yes, that's where we are
women’s TP up after this
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 2:28 PM EST up reply actions
Ha, loved the middle Aussie shouldering the outside rider, as they came round the corner
Lovely bike skills to regain balance!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 2:40 PM EST up reply actions
Oh dear :(
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
They try out different combos in the World Cup
to see what works, for the Worlds & Olympics – and to give every rider the chance to ride on the track, in front of the INSANE crowds, because it’s a crazy experience – the Aussies swapped Amy Cure in, instead of Melissa Hoskins, who rode in the qualis
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 2:42 PM EST up reply actions
Ahhh.
I saw a baby that looked like Cadel Evans the other day...
by John Cyclopunk on Feb 17, 2012 2:45 PM EST up reply actions
Yep.
Like female British cyclists. :-)
I saw a baby that looked like Cadel Evans the other day...
by John Cyclopunk on Feb 17, 2012 2:46 PM EST up reply actions
three teams under old WR
Crowd is notably all in T shirts
Thermo control etc top of the range stuff. Crowd all the way round probably helps too.
Indeed - get that heat up for ideal speed!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 2:52 PM EST up reply actions
They have a real advantage being at home
they’ll be used to the track, and that crowd will give them a huge boost too – at the World Champs in Aus, expect loads of golds!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 2:48 PM EST up reply actions
and Canada beat Aus' WR time too, no?
Spectacular Canadian team too – can’t WAIT for the Olymps!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 2:49 PM EST up reply actions
Mens TS final
FRA
173 BAUGE Gregory
175 D’ALMEIDA Mickael
179 SIREAU Kevin
GER
195 ENDERS Rene
196 FÖRSTEMANN Robert
198 LEVY Maximilian
Yay Forstermann and his thighs!
and how come Baugé is riding, after his missed tests? thought he was banned?
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 2:53 PM EST up reply actions
12 months, backdated, last January, apparently.
I saw a baby that looked like Cadel Evans the other day...
by John Cyclopunk on Feb 17, 2012 2:56 PM EST up reply actions
BBC commentators talking about how hard it is to peak
as they have this race, Worlds AND Olympics! Poor riders, how to they cope? ;-D
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Well, that's all I'm getting to see tonight.
Looking forward to tomorrow though!
I saw a baby that looked like Cadel Evans the other day...
No, it's live on the link I posted!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 3:01 PM EST up reply actions
BBC viewers - moving from BBC2 to red button
or live at http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/17012358
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Red button isn’t working here. There are technical problems, apparently.
I saw a baby that looked like Cadel Evans the other day...
by John Cyclopunk on Feb 17, 2012 3:04 PM EST up reply actions
we found it!
Go to the index, on the first RB menu, then sports, then sports multiscreen, and it’s there for us
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 3:04 PM EST up reply actions
(index on 1st screen after the RB button opens!)
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 3:05 PM EST up reply actions
Got to cook dinner anyway. I like having dinner late and have been gradually trying to cook later and later every night, but Mrs. Cyclopunk has worked out what I’m up to and wants to eat at 9 tonight.
I saw a baby that looked like Cadel Evans the other day...
by John Cyclopunk on Feb 17, 2012 3:07 PM EST up reply actions
None of the sports-livez ones are working at mo'
Can you see this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/17012358
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 3:10 PM EST up reply actions
There might not be streams, because it's only on our digital
I looked on the UCI tv guide, but in every country, London is tba…
There isn’t E/sport until Sunday night
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 3:13 PM EST up reply actions
I don't understand why they don't open the stream internationally
would be great publicity for Olymps….
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 3:24 PM EST up reply actions
It's the men's kilo now, so some calm, then the men's points, & the men's omnium elimination
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(and time for me to stop hyperventilating!)
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 3:12 PM EST up reply actions
Really wish i could find a stream for you
:-(
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 3:58 PM EST up reply actions
Ingmar de Poortere is attacking a lot...
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 17, 2012 4:00 PM EST up reply actions
It's like swimming with all the world records
Are they all wearing a new super-jersey?
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
has Pascale won yet?
"Ants don’t worry, they operate like a fantastic team, they accept obstacles and deal with them in a positive manner, they don’t complain and remain positive. An ant doesn’t work on emotion, is proactive and always chooses the ant role."
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