Cycling
- Thread starter Maggot
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Individual sprint is great 
All the going slow and mind games etc
All the going slow and mind games etc
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Might have to leave the music off to watch all the impending medal-winning 
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Individual sprint is great
All the going slow and mind games etc
Agreed. And the more tactical it gets the better.
It's almost a mockery of sport, they should be going full speed really, but thats what I like about it too - which rider can be a piss taking cunt the most
Then a quick sprint for the line
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
OK, I;m just having a heart attack about now 
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
That was tense!!
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
I was under the impression that wasn't supposed to be that tense!
Steel Icarus
all I want in life's a little bit of love
Made the other lads fall about then went immediately deadpanWiggo's face
The man don't give a fuck
Hollis
bloody furious
Good interview with Peter Keen on the 'Today' show this morning. Apparently they had to give 'Sir Brad' a good talking to around 2002, to decide if he was really up to committing to be an elite athlete. I think it was after Athens 2004 that he got into his Belgium Beers for a year or so.
Steel Icarus
all I want in life's a little bit of love
Come on lasses!
Steel Icarus
all I want in life's a little bit of love
Yesssssss!
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Well done the Women's Team Pusuit! Brilliant!
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
That'd be Dame Laura then
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Mr. QofG's is pathetically excited that this will happen and then she will be Dame Trott which is the same name as the pantomime Dame in "Jack and the Beanstalk"
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Well, that were an odd tactic...
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Stacks of money helps though.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Yep. Track cycling combines one of the shallowest talent pools of any category of Olympic events with an enormous number of medal events. Only two countries put significant resources into it, so when one of them, in this case the Australians, aren't performing well it all gets a bit predictable. Not that it's fair to complain about the British sports authorities realising that track cycling was the ultimate low hanging fruit and putting in the resources to pluck it. Other countries could have done the same and didn't. British success in recent years in road cycling is much more impressive in sporting terms though than any quantity of track medals.
The track programme could be improved by better selection of events. The scratch race and the points race are much better events than the team sprint (which is completely pointless) or anything against the clock.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
I'm thinking bike polo would be better than sprints, pursuits etc. Anyway Omnium starts tonight. Go Columbia!