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Rio - Track Cycling events - no spoiler tags required

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    #332
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Beasty wrote: »
    Anna Meares showing what a true ambassador she is for the sport. Jo Rowsell showing she'll have a future in media if she wants it.

    That brief interview with Meares and the shots of her emotional chat with Pendleton only mean one thing: retirement.


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    #333
    RobFowl
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    Not a mad track fan but really enjoying the events at Rio. Brits doing really well and have to jump on the Cav bandwagon :)


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    #334
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 76,477 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Hammer 2s faster than she was in the Worlds. Think Trott could try and settle for 2nd in this


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    #335
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Hammer absolutely awful riding style in the individual pursuit. So ungainly it reminds me of chris sorensen formerly of saxo bank. Effective though! Too small a gear maybe?


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    #336
    Beasty
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    Trott 78
    Hammer 72
    D'Hoore 72


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    #337
    ThisRegard
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    Points race hopefully will be a cracker.


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    #338
    Beasty
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    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Effective though! Too small a gear maybe?
    One thing you can guarantee - someone with Hammer's experience is not going to get their gearing wrong.


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    #339
    ThisRegard
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    Fire the bloody camera man and director for missing that live. Cav should be in trouble for that.


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    #340
    Weepsie
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    Cavendish is a bit of a prat when he wants to be


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    #341
    Beasty
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    Cav's going to be lucky to get away with that


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    #342
    Mint Sauce
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    How much could that cost Cav?!

    :eek:


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    #343
    Beasty
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    Weepsie wrote: »
    Cavendish is a bit of a prat when he wants to be
    Perhaps you have little understanding of track racing. There is no way that was deliberate


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    #344
    neris
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    naughty cav. can he be booted?


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    #345
    neris
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    the korean looks in a bad way


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    #346
    Beasty
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    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    How much could that cost Cav?!

    :eek:
    If they were going to DSQ him I suspect it would already have happened


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    #347
    Bambaata
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    Beasty what is the potential penalty for Cav if it is ruled so and would it be clarified before finish?


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    #348
    Weepsie
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    Beasty wrote: »
    Perhaps you have little understanding of track racing. There is no way that was deliberate

    Not really, youre correct, but i know it would've required gravity defying ability, but he's surely more at fault there. He looked, saw him and took him out.

    No duty of care to other riders there at all unless doing what he did was in fact the safer option.


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    #349
    Raam
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    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Fire the bloody camera man and director for missing that live. Cav should be in trouble for that.

    How is the director meant to foretell what is gonna happen?


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    #350
    Beasty
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    I think he'll have a yellow for that. 2 yellows and you're out but he's clearly still in


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    #351
    Mint Sauce
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    Beasty wrote: »
    If they were going to DSQ him I suspect it would already have happened

    Could he be docked points?


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    #352
    Lusk_Doyle
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    Bambaata wrote: »
    Beasty what is the potential penalty for Cav if it is ruled so and would it be clarified before finish?

    Hospital bills.


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    #353
    ThisRegard
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    Raam wrote: »
    How is the director meant to foretell what is gonna happen?

    It took ages to get to what happened, the commentary were talking about it and they were showing a close up of a rider for the duration. All it takes is a flick of a button.


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    #354
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Beasty wrote: »
    One thing you can guarantee - someone with Hammer's experience is not going to get their gearing wrong.

    Dreadful style it is so!


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    #355
    MediaMan
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    Beasty wrote: »
    Weepsie wrote: »
    Cavendish is a bit of a prat when he wants to be
    Perhaps you have little understanding of track racing. There is no way that was deliberate

    Genuine question... to someone that knows nothing about track, it looked deliberate or at least reckless. Why wasn't it?


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    #356
    Raam
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    ThisRegard wrote: »
    It took ages to get to what happened, the commentary were talking about it and they were showing a close up of a rider for the duration. All it takes is a flick of a button.

    Impatience is a terrible thing :pac:


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    #357
    Lusk_Doyle
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    ThisRegard wrote: »
    It took ages to get to what happened, the commentary were talking about it and they were showing a close up of a rider for the duration. All it takes is a flick of a button.

    They are looking at it and not the tv.


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    #358
    Beasty
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    Weepsie wrote: »
    Not really, youre correct, but i know it would've required gravity defying ability, but he's surely more at fault there. He looked, saw him and took him out.

    No duty of care to other riders there at all unless doing what he did was in fact the safer option.
    They use the whole of the track. You will see riders pulling up and down all the time. He was without doubt careless and is probably lucky to be still in after that. However look at some of the bumping and barging that takes place in the Kierin. At this level skills are very high but equally accidents , when they happen, can be very spectacular


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    #359
    CameraBag
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    For the riders who lap the field, presumably the number of laps is still considered to be that of the main bunch when they rejoin? They're not a lap ahead for the rest of the race, right?


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    #360
    Lusk_Doyle
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    MediaMan wrote: »
    Genuine question... to someone that knows nothing about track, it looked deliberate or at least reckless. Why wasn't it?

    Why on earth would he have deliberately done that? He saw the guy and probably thought that he was coming up the track behind him and hence the track below would be clear to come back down into.


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    #361
    wanderer 22
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    How aware would the riders be of the points standings?


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