Track World Cup London - Day 3, Live from 19:00 GMT!!
by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 10:59 AM EST
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PrintSaturday 18th February, from 19:00 GMT, 20:00 CET;
5:30am Adelaide; 2pm USA Eastern; 10am USA Pacific
Day 3 is full of sprints - with Anna Meares & Vicky Pendleton going head-to-head this evening, the men's keirin, and both men's & women's omnium rounds.
Today we're live on BBC2 from 19:00-21:00, with streams for that part, and BBC red button & UK-only web coverage after that.
A very rough timetable of the evening session's events (bear in mind, I can't add, so you might be better off working it out from the event programme)
18:30 Women's sprint semi-finals race 1 (Meares v Pendleton, Lee v Guo)
18:40 Men's keirin 2nd round
18:50 Women's sprint semi-finals race 2
19:00 Men's omnium round 5 - 15km scratch
19:20 Women's sprint semi-finals race 3 (if needed)
19:25 Men's keirin Final places 7-12
19:30 Men's keirin Final 1-6
19:35 Women's sprint finals 1st race
19:45 Men's keirin ceremony
19:55 Women's sprint finals 2nd race
20:05 Women's Individual Pursuit final (Rowsell v Whitten for gold, Sereikaite v Cure for bronze)
20:15 Women's sprint finals race 3 (if needed)
20:25 Women's IP ceremony
20:33 Men's omnium final round - Kilo TT
21:08 Women's sprint ceremony
21:16 Men's omnium ceremnony
21:24 Women's omnium 3 - elimination race
So what's happened today? Well you can guess, a little, about the women's IP! It should be an exciting final between Jo Rowsell (GB) and Alison Shanks (NZ)
Over in the sprints, the draws have been really unlucky - I think everyone hoped it would come down to Anna Meares v Vicky pendleton for gold, but a real surprise is Wai Sze Lee of Hong Kong getting so far - and no Germans or French in the semis. The race for 5th-8th will have Kaarle McCulloch (Aus), Jess Varnish (GB - who was beaten by Pendelton in her quarter final), Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (Cub) & Kristina Vogel (Ger) and will be done & dusted by the time tv starts.
EDIT!! The London home advantage is doing a spectacular job for young Jess Varnish - here's the results of the race for 5th-8th place!
5. Jess Varnish (GBr)
6. Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (Cub)
7. Kristina Vogel (Ger)
8. Kaarle McCulloch (Aus)
The men's keirin has been full of crashes and a few DQs, and looking at the second round, there's one clearly stronger group out there - in fact, race 1 could easily be a Final, rather than a round!
Race 1: Chris Hoy (GB), Rene Enders (Ger), Christos Volikakis (Gre), Teun Mulder (Ned), Matt Crampton (GB) & Azizulhasni Awang (Malaysian, riding for YSD)
Race 2: Joachim Eilers (ERD), Mickael Bourgain (Fra), Kazunari Watanabe (Jpn), Simon Van Velthooven (NZL), Ilya Okunev (Phl) & Phililip Njisane (Tri)
See what I mean? If Bourgain doesn't get through, he should be ashamed of himself!
The men's omnium will be ending, and the standings at the start of the day were
1. Juan Esteban ARANGO (Col), 9 points
2. Elia VIVIANI (Ita) 12
3. Bryan COQUARD (Fra) 16
4. Ho Sung CHO (Kor) 20
5. Zach BELL (Can) 26
6. Luís MANSILLA (Chi) 26
7. Martyn IRVINE (Ire) 27
8. Ben Swift (GBr) 27
9. Rafal Rayajczyk (Pol) 29
10. Shane ARCHBOLD (NZ) 30
But they will have had the IP round before this evening, so look to the comments for an update - and the scratch and the kilo this evening are such different races, it will be interesting to see what happens. Watch out for Albertina in the crowds, cheering for Viviani, and also for the British commentators being incredibly rude about the omnium and omnium riders, complaining that it's terribly unfair Brad Wiggins can't ride the IP in London etc, then turning round and saying it's a fabulous event when it gets to the women, when Laura Trott is doing as well as usual
In the women's omnium, we've had the flying lap, won by China's Li Huang and the points race, won by Mexico's Sofi Arreola, and it really does look like everything could change this evening. I know, I know, I'm one of the few people who is in love with this event in the UK, but I think it's super-exciting, and the elimination is my favourite race! Standings after 2 rounds:
1. Ausrine Trebaite (LTU) 11 points
2. Sarah Hammer (USA) 12
3. Nettie Edmondson (Aus) 12
4. Tara Whitten (Can) 15
5. Tatsiana Sharakova (Blr) 17
6. Kirsten Wild (Ned) 17
7. Li Huang (Chn) 19
8. Laura Trott (GBr) 19
9. Molgorzata Wojtyra (Pol) 20
10. Svitlana Galyuk (Ukr) 20
11. Sofi Arreola (Mex) 20
I'll be watching for Kirsten Wild, who rides a lot of 6-days, and is superb in bunch races, Leire Olaberria (who's sitting 12th) and of course, the usual big rivalry between Sarah Hammer & Tara Whitten
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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On my way to the track!
Forza Vivi! Also I’ll be cheering for Sofi Arreola, Nancy’s sis, in the omnium…she just won the points! :)
It's pronounced "Int-CHOW-stie"
by Albertina on Feb 18, 2012 11:21 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Any omnium IP results??
It's pronounced "Int-CHOW-stie"
by Albertina on Feb 18, 2012 11:53 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Arango beat Viviani... Swift 4th
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 12:01 PM EST up reply actions
I saw he caught him! Aaargh!
What’s the overall now??
It's pronounced "Int-CHOW-stie"
by Albertina on Feb 18, 2012 12:03 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Not up yet, but it'll be Arango extending his lead... just the scracth & kilo to go....
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 12:05 PM EST up reply actions
bad news, Tiffany.... see below...
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 12:10 PM EST up reply actions
I'll be happy if he gets a medal.
2nd day isn’t as good for him with the IP and kilo :(
It's pronounced "Int-CHOW-stie"
by Albertina on Feb 18, 2012 12:14 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Jess Varnish wins the bunch sprint for sprint 5th-8th places!
5. Jess Varnish (GBr)
6. Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (Cub)
7. Kristina Vogel (Ger)
8. Kaarle McCulloch (Aus)
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 11:57 AM EST reply actions
Men's Omnium after 4 rounds & the IP
1. Juan Esteban ARANGO (Col), 10 points
2. Ho Sung CHO (Kor) 23
3. Elia VIVIANI (Ita) 24
4. Bryan COQUARD (Bel) 25
5. Zach BELL (Can) 28
6. Ben Swift (GBr) 31
7. Martyn IRVINE (Ire) 35
8. Rafal Rayajczyk (Pol) 39
10. Shane ARCHBOLD (NZ) 40
IP results
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 12:10 PM EST reply actions
can someone please link a video stream?
thanks
It seems as though Cavendish rides faster on some climbs than the fastest climbers in front of the race. Danilo Hondo
Links at the bottom of the article, via the usual places!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 12:48 PM EST up reply actions
thanks
how long from now they go live?
It seems as though Cavendish rides faster on some climbs than the fastest climbers in front of the race. Danilo Hondo
almost exactly an hour!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 12:56 PM EST up reply actions
Remember to look out for
Njisane Phillip, he’s the fastest thing from the Caribbean in the sprints & Keiren.
It seems as though Cavendish rides faster on some climbs than the fastest climbers in front of the race. Danilo Hondo
I'm in the velodrome and Elia just took his shirt off.
Also, I’m sitting next to an Italian! Excellent!
It's pronounced "Int-CHOW-stie"
by Albertina on Feb 18, 2012 1:24 PM EST via mobile reply actions
So, hyperventilating yet?
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 1:45 PM EST up reply actions
and Shuang Guo beats Wai Sze Lee
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 1:43 PM EST up reply actions
Vicky Pendleton beats Anna Meares, making it 1-all!
Shuang Guo beats Lee again, and makes it straight to the final
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Men's keirin final will be
Chris Hoy (GB), Teun Mulder (Ned), Rene Enders (Ger), Mickael Bourgain (Fra), Simon Van Velthooven (NZ) and Kazunari Watanabe (Jpn)
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I still think the Race 2 of the 2nd heat was stronger!
Chris Hoy (GB), Rene Enders (Ger), Christos Volikakis (Gre), Teun Mulder (Ned), Matt Crampton (GB) & Azizulhasni Awang (Malaysian, riding for YSD) – WOW!!! Swap out Volikakis and add Bourgain, and it’s the cream of the crop!
Crampton, I think, was caught in a huge crash, and won’t be riding the 7-12 final
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 2:06 PM EST up reply actions
Ha, yes, it's not a keirin without one
apparently it’s less bad than 1st thought, and he’ll be racing – go Matt!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 2:14 PM EST up reply actions
I find her quite entertaining
But I would rather see some live action than interviews. Jake Humphries is a national menace.
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 2:08 PM EST up reply actions
Is that the Tim-nice-but-dim as lead commentator?
He seems a total twit!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 2:12 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, the pretty blonde one
I struggle with him. But I think we should be cloning Claire Balding to front all sports, especially with the Olympics coming up.
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 2:13 PM EST up reply actions
She's still banging on about how she's having nightmares, freaking out, etc etc
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 2:12 PM EST up reply actions
I absolutely love her when she's racing
but she has a very particular media strategy – lots of talking about how she likes baking and is really a girly, not a nasty butch athlete, and lots and lots and LOTS of talking about how freaked out she gets/how Anna Meares used to be mean to her on the track/how depressed she gets, and it a) gets dull & b) seems disingenuous – fragile little flowers don’t get to be World Champ in something like sprint & keirin over & over & over….
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 2:17 PM EST up reply actions
Did she do this pre-2008?
I get the feeling that she can cope with success in terms of riding psychology, defending titles, etc. That isn’t the same as being famous, though.
She clearly went out and said yes to lots of things (Loaded/FHM/whatever it was being particularly unwise, IMO) and became a public figure in a way that she struggled with. What I see is someone who has struggled for four years to separate cycling from everything else, and blamed the bike for a range of things that made her unhappy. The way she has started talking about “a profession” seems to support the return to enjoying cycling by separating it out.
Just one man’s armchair psychology. I can see how she might frustrate a lot of pepole, but disingenuous seems a little harsh to me.
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 2:23 PM EST up reply actions
She talks about how she had a bit of a breakdown post-2008, because she didn't feel she got the glory
when comparing to Chris Hoy etc, and that did her head in.
You’re probably right. I think she loves it when she’s winning, when she’s not, not so much!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 2:25 PM EST up reply actions
That's Dani King!
Gold medal Team Pursuit, rides on the road for Matrix Prendas (aka Horizon, aka the team Mr Helen Wyman is DS for!)
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 2:13 PM EST up reply actions
Always, always entertaining
and both of them really play to the crowd. I love it, from the moment they are sitting waiting, to staring at each other through their visors, to the racing…. Just spectacular!
(Apologies for over-enthusiasm, track is my first love, & it’s great getting to see it on actual tv!)
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 2:20 PM EST up reply actions
I know how you feel.
Olympic Shot Put is my favorite.
ever seen this video about Shane Perkins?
Gotta apreciate the way these track sprinters focus on details.
There is an exciting race on track but they are not showing it
It seems as though Cavendish rides faster on some climbs than the fastest climbers in front of the race. Danilo Hondo
Not a good scratch from Elia. Down to 5th :'(
It's pronounced "Int-CHOW-stie"
by Albertina on Feb 18, 2012 2:23 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Look in the paper tomorrow
Looks like she got away with it.
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
Spectacular racing - Meares will race Guo for gold
Pendleton should easily beat Lee for bronze!
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Is he the dude who got THAT splinter last year?
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 2:32 PM EST up reply actions
Awang (splinter) was second
It seems as though Cavendish rides faster on some climbs than the fastest climbers in front of the race. Danilo Hondo
The guy that went early is Phillip from Trinidad
It seems as though Cavendish rides faster on some climbs than the fastest climbers in front of the race. Danilo Hondo
More flower power
The Hong Kong shoes with the Blakeana flowers are tremendous
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 2:40 PM EST up reply actions
Keirin 7-12
7. Joachim Eilers (ERD)
8. Azizulhasni Awang (Malaysian, riding for YSD)
9. Christos Volikakis (Gre)
10. Phililip Njisane (Tri)
11. Matt Crampton (GB)
12. Ilya Okunev (Phl)
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I always laugh when they talk about Chris Hoy having tactics
for years, his “tactic” was ALWAYS “go to the fornt & ride very fast”!!
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wow
It seems as though Cavendish rides faster on some climbs than the fastest climbers in front of the race. Danilo Hondo
Amazing
I don’t watch enough track to know, but it must be pretty unusual to win from that high up the banking, no?
I think it's often done
It can be safer to be high, so you don’t get boxed in
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 2:40 PM EST up reply actions
No, keep the omnium, and ADD the madison!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 2:40 PM EST up reply actions
+1
and the points race and the IP
When you spend 10Mill building a venue, at least let some medals be won in it.
Indeed!
Especially when swimmers can win something like 15 medals each!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 2:44 PM EST up reply actions
Keirin final
1. Chris Hoy (GB)
2. Rene Enders (ERD)
3. Mickael Bourgain (Fra)
4. Teun Mulder (Ned)
5. Kazunari Watanabe (Jpn)
6. Simon Van Velthooven (NZL)
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The camera work is very good, isn't it? A moving camera on the inside,
and some mounted on the bikes…plus the stationary cameras and the slo-mo.
LOVE Meares' stares at her opponents as she lines up!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 2:43 PM EST up reply actions
and on those strange things you steer with your knees
for the low first-lap shots!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 2:43 PM EST up reply actions
Hugh Porter may keep saying "Gao Shang"
but her name is Shuang Guo…
(When gs and Ted are ranting about that Dutch/Flemish commentator? That’s me, now!)
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Porter has commentated track for CENTURIES, and it's clear on the startlists,
I think he just doesn’t care – he mangles names all over
(gnashing my teeth, tearing my hair & generally wishing he’d retire!)
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 2:51 PM EST up reply actions
Usual practice in chinese is to say family name first, then given name...
…so it gets reversed a lot.
Li Fuyu is a good example. How it gets said depends on whether one is using the Chinese word order or the English, French, etc. one.
There's a dude who is on the track support for Belarus
who always has this stinky-looking leather waistcoat and usually terrible shirts – Albertina and I were laughing at his 70s lounge lizard shirts at Manc last year, but he seems to be plain this year – but at least the leather’s still there!
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That isn't a title
She has an award, but she’s just called Vicky.
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 2:56 PM EST up reply actions
Probably a BBC policy in some way
I know that the various titles in racing aren’t used (Sir Henry Cecil, Lord Grimthorpe etc).
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 3:00 PM EST up reply actions
horse racing is one of the few sports sir/lord does get used offically
the class system is intact and well there.
Official UCI registered name is Chris Hoy. Cav, Wiggo the rest are all “honoured” but not in common usage.
Think she's underestimating Lee
Like when Hoy got beaten by that young Irish guy, Felix English??
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 2:57 PM EST up reply actions
WOW!
Lee is on fire! I’ve never seen her so strong – I was surprised at all the riders she’s beaten to get to the finals – she’s really come on!
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Fantastic win
Is this levls of fitness, or is Guo just improving?
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 3:02 PM EST up reply actions
She's beaten Meares before
Think she was injured last year? But yeah, found her form big time
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 3:03 PM EST up reply actions
She's a really, really smiley rider in real life, too!
Huge grin!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 3:09 PM EST up reply actions
Stratford - on the east side
20 mins train/tube from Liverpool Street – used to be a big industrial/poor area
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 3:10 PM EST up reply actions
Used to live near London, still can't place it in the head.
will look at a map later
I am trying to think of a corp nearby.
Thats unfortunately the way its divided in my head
Main Olympic Park
Stratford, if that helps you. About 5 miles east of centre otherwise.
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 3:10 PM EST up reply actions
Bloody hell, it was amazing!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 3:14 PM EST up reply actions
I know!
I really thought Shanks had it – AMAZING ride!!!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 3:15 PM EST up reply actions
Dead impressive
You could park a van in the gap between them at the end.
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 3:19 PM EST up reply actions
Bloody hell! I was not expecting that!
Wai Sze Lee beats Vicky Pendleton for sprint bronze!
Unexpected final time!
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Jo Rowsell has alopecia, which is why not much hair
A few years back, she would always wear a wig when not helmeted – it’s been great seeing her confident in herself & not bothering, these last years. She comes across as really pretty, & nice, & sure of herself!
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She does charity work for charities that support people with alopecia, too
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 3:24 PM EST up reply actions
It is great to see
Hope she can inspire some of the many sufferers this year.
With Sarah Storey as well (until very recently), it is very difficult not to admire the women’s track team.
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 3:29 PM EST up reply actions
The TP team is stupidly strong
It’ll be so interesting to see which final 3 they choose for the Olympics
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 3:31 PM EST up reply actions
is my favourite GB trackie
for many reasons, that included.
One day, when Oly focus done with, will make a very impressive road racer.
She always gets fun results in the criteriums she races over summer
And both she & Dani King will win a few vds points in the British races (prob not riding any Euro ones, so it’s be ONLY the Brit ones!)
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 3:25 PM EST up reply actions
DS Stef
and others deserve a lot more praise than they receive for how they have looked after the some of the GB trackies during the off season
Yes indeed!
It’s fun, with Dani and Jo both being Matrix (Horizon) riders!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 3:27 PM EST up reply actions
Ultimately any success
is as much theirs as GB cycling’s. They should be very proud of both named riders and others
I am one of the very few omnium fans
but I wish they wouldn’t end it with the kilo TT. So dull! So long! I wish they’d show the women’s elimination first, at least! End the omnium with a nice scratch, or points!
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too much partying after Copenhagen
Waste now.
It's nice to hear Dani bigging up the omnium
It was really annoying me last night, when the commentators were being so rude about it, comparing it to the circus etc. We only get cycling on the BBC a couple of times a year, they really should be doing everything to promote it, not spending ages whining about things that can’t be changed this year
(Although as someone tweeted earlier, funny how they suddenly started liking it, when Swift started moving up the rankings!)
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I have nothing against the omnium, but I hate the fact they cut the madison and points race from the Olympic programme.
Oh, me too
I’d have madison, points & elimination, in my ideal world – but the commentators (& lots of Brit cycling media) present it as IP v omnium, rather than point out we should have more events – or worse, like last night, blame the fact there needed to be equality between women & men for losing the IP…
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 3:37 PM EST up reply actions
You do get the feeling that she'd find something nice to say
About dry rot, or boils. I don’t think she’s stopped smiling since she came on screen. NTTAWWT.
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 3:37 PM EST up reply actions
You can always tell which one she is by her MASSIVE smile
and for a soppy moment, this pic of her after winning the TP yesterday – aw!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 3:38 PM EST up reply actions
Can you spot Dani?
and very happy British TP team!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 3:41 PM EST up reply actions
Well, they deserve to be happy
It is nice to see/hear their pleasure, though. Very easy to share their joy if they show it so obviously.
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 3:44 PM EST up reply actions
That's one of the major reasons I'm such a Marianne Vos fangirl!
It’s been interesting, comparing Dani’s commentary here with Emma Trott at the Worlds RR. I know Trott had the harder job, but both Dani’s happiness/enthusiasm and Emma’s boredom/disdain were infectious… I’ve always wanted Helen Wyman to commentate the women’s RRs, and now I’m upgrading that to Helen + Dani!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 3:47 PM EST up reply actions
Interesting in the context of your comments about Pendleton, too
Dani seems to me to be very feminine, in the most positive sense of the term, without needing to tell us that she is. Whereas Pendleton in some ways comes across as, arguably, more like some male athletes – and as a result, she does feel the need to tell us she’s a girly girl – and ends up in FHM.
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 3:52 PM EST up reply actions
It's like some of the young Brit riders, always making "gay" jokes on twitter
that just make them seem completely insecure in themselves, and not the “manly” men they want to seem.
(Of course, the homophobia & stuff is in a whole other league to Pendleton’s interviews – probably shouldn’t even have them in the same sentence)
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 3:54 PM EST up reply actions
I guess both come from trying to figure yourself out in a very public way. Twitter really isn’t helpful under those circumstances.
I’m very glad I grew up in total obscurity!
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 3:57 PM EST up reply actions
I think it's also the need, in Vicky's case, for the media to have a "hook"
so now, every time anyone interviews her, they use the same old narrative, as it’s easier (and also, I guess, a bit more interesting than “I really love riding, so I do it a lot!”, if you’re not a full-time fan!)
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 4:01 PM EST up reply actions
Viviani is going to be lethal
Once he’s gone through puberty.
(Hoping Albertina doesn’t read this on the way home…)
She's read it in the velodrome! Ha!
It's pronounced "Int-CHOW-stie"
by Albertina on Feb 18, 2012 3:58 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
People watching on streams/BBC2
I have to warn you, it goes off BBC2 in 10 mins, apparently – if you want to watch the women’s omnium elimination, Brits you’ll have to switch to red button or http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/17012358
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I feel the need to apologise
Tomorrow we’re on BBC2 from 14:45, and Eurosport from 15:00, so there should be a lot of streams, hopefully of the whole second session
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 3:57 PM EST up reply actions
4th for my Vivi...if only he hadn't missed the flipping move in the scratch! Bah.
It's pronounced "Int-CHOW-stie"
by Albertina on Feb 18, 2012 3:59 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Thoughts on the stadium?
Is it as noisy as it seems?
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 4:01 PM EST up reply actions
and how does it compare to Manchester?
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 4:02 PM EST up reply actions
Why the heck have we built a track to suit her?! Fail!
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 4:04 PM EST up reply actions
says
she’s really, really pleased with how she raced
loves the velodrome, suits her racing style, says the crowd is fantastic, she’s never heard as much noise, reflective of a country that loves its sports
says she’ll have home-crowd advantage in Melbourne, but it’ll be flipped again for the Olympics
said this season has been the most uncertain, with no 1 rider being dominant – thinks it’s great, more challenge, more competition for her
Basically, she’s lovely!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 4:05 PM EST up reply actions
Did you know she even pipped Cuddles for Cyclist of the Year voted for by Oz GP?
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
I agree. what is so heartening is that the Australian public know that too, and Cuddles of course was very
happy for her, which was lovely.
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
She's such a positive, happy soul - especiallya fter breaking her back a few years ago
It’s always fun, comparing how Vicky P talks about Anna (Vicky really bigs up how she felt that Meares used to “bully” her, years & years ago) and how Anna talks about VP (always talks about her as a great rider, her best opponent etc etc!)
Really hope they aren’t drawn to meet except in the finals, for the Worlds & Olympics!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 19, 2012 8:45 AM EST up reply actions
Having waved my feminist credentials around
I’m a huge fan of Sofia Arreola. Beautiful and talented. Phwoar.
Ha!
She’s a really sweet person too – Nancy Arreola (ex-Horizon rider and sometime PdC correspondent) is her big sister
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 4:15 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, I enjoy reading Nancy's stuff (and pics)
Good to know Sofia is as lovely as she looks. Would get the “Emma Fahlin pick” if there was a Track PSA-DS-W.
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 4:17 PM EST up reply actions
Bah, Sofi's just been eliminated!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 4:20 PM EST up reply actions
Yumari Gonzalez's tactic of riding at the back freaks me out!
Yikes Yumari! Be careful!
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Charlotte Becker just eliminated
(2 of the 3 German Pursuit riders are on Specialized-lululemon – Becker & Lisa Brennauer)
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I ADORE the elimination!
Laura Trott getting the crowd worked up by racing at the back, and having to sprint hard EVERY elimination round!
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She's riding better and better
Seems happier in a smaller field?
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 4:26 PM EST up reply actions
Indeed, but still at the back!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 4:28 PM EST up reply actions
Surprised Sarah Hammer's out! and Olaberria We're left with
Tara Whitten, Kirsten Wild, Pascale Jeluand, Laura Trott, Jo Kiesenowski & Nettie Edmondson!
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Crowd are loving it
Hope Albertina has some voice left for singing in church tomorrow…
I was shrieking on my sofa!
I’m a huge fan of Whitten & Wild too! Perfect end!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 4:31 PM EST up reply actions
and OMG, she beat Wild????
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 4:29 PM EST up reply actions
Chris Boardman just became a fanboy
Pundits aren’t supposed to shout “YES!” like that.
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 4:30 PM EST up reply actions
Not just homerism
But this may be one of the best velodromes ever built, particularly for the fans.
Superb looking facility. Friends there tonight are raving about it.
Women's omnium after 3 races
1. Nettie Edmondson (Aus) 16 points
2. Tara Whitten (Can) 17
3. Laura Trott (GBr) 20
4. Kirsten Wild (Ned) 20
5. Sarah Hammer (USA) 20
6. Ausrine Trebaite (LTU) 25
3 to go!
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Fabulous night! So much fun!
Tomorrow we kick off from 14:45 – see you all then, I hope!
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Middle class problems
Depends how quickly I can get back from John Lewis with a replacement coffee grinder. Hope to catch as much of this as possible.
by EdredonBrowny on Feb 18, 2012 4:44 PM EST up reply actions
Haha, that is HILARIOUS!
I’m laughing out loud, I love it!
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by Sarah Connolly on Feb 18, 2012 4:47 PM EST up reply actions
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