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Beasty

Cycling moves off-road with BMX taking place over the next 3 days

Action commences with the Women's seeding run at 5.30pm our time tomorrow with the Men's seeding due to follow at 6;34

No Irish interest and no GBR representatives in the Women's events

Women's start list
Men's start list

Mint Sauce

Beasty wrote: »

Cycling moves off-road with BMX taking place over the next 3 days

Action commences with the Women's seeding run at 5.30pm our time tomorrow with the Men's seeding due to follow at 6;34

No Irish interest and no GBR representatives in the Women's events

Women's start list
Men's start list

What hapened to the GB Girl who won it in London?

Beasty

Are you thinking of Shenaze Reade? She actually lost out in London as a result of a fall. She was in the track squad for Beijing, and I've seen her hanging around Manchester Velodrome on a couple of occasions. Presume she simply did not qualify (no idea of the qualification process but there are a lot less women than men entered)

RobFowl

Mint Sauce wrote: »

What hapened to the GB Girl who won it in London?

Shaznee Read didn't win and has left the GB HP team since then to ride pro BMX in the USA

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She joined the track squad and was aiming for Rio in the team sprint this year. Tokyo was the long term goal I think.

Lusk_Doyle

Did a controlled fire on the bmx track get out of hand due to winds and damage the course? Event at riskas a result!

godtabh

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Did a controlled fire on the bmx track get out of hand due to winds and damage the course? Event at riskas a result!

This Olympics is a bit embarrassing

Beasty

godtabh wrote: »

This Olympics is a bit embarrassing

Unfortunately quite predictably so. Their failures have been many across numerous sports. Athens was a bit of a botch job, but I guess the standards set initially by Sydney, then the "efficiency" of Beijing and everything positive about London was always going to be difficult to follow. Brazil was thriving when they were awarded these games but has gone downhill fast over the past 4 years. They have put on a decent show in some areas, but i suspect will be remembered more for things that have gone wrong, sometimes in a quite spectacular fashion

At least the velodrome wasn't leaking!

pelevin

I wonder will they be doing wheelies.

Eamonnator

on now, RTE2

ThisRegard

Don't like the track they're using.

Eamonnator

Why?

I think it looks great.

ThisRegard

Meh, call me old school but give me the traditional brown and dusty ones. It's too bright or something.

Eamonnator

I quite like all the bright colours, bit cartoony maybe, but cheerful.
The track seems to flow nicely.

ednwireland

Nope really can't get into bmx racing

Beasty

Kids can though. I've got 3 that love it. Safe environment and fun racing really setting them up as future Olympians:cool:

irishrover99

What was the point in them doing skill/style moves while going over the jumps. Is there points awarded for style(didn't get to watch much of it) or is looking gnarly more important than a gold medal.

RobFowl

irishrover99 wrote: »

What was the point in them doing skill/style moves while going over the jumps. Is there points awarded for style(didn't get to watch much of it) or is looking gnarly more important than a gold medal.

Is all about the look :cool:

bazermc

Any body watching the triathlon?

Eamonnator

bazermc wrote: »

Any body watching the triathlon?

Yes.
Brownlees going well

Eamonnator

Group of ten about a minute ahead.

bazermc

Eamonnator wrote: »

Yes.
Brownlees going well

Interesting that they aren't using full tri bikes for the cycle

Eamonnator

Riding in a group makes full tri bikes impractical

Eamonnator

BMX on BBC4 now.
Mental racing.
Hard crashes.
Broken bikes.

Mint Sauce

Is it just me, or is this a dangerous track. Crashes in nearly every heat, with one of the Dutch riders just having to carry the bike minus the front fork over the line.

Eamonnator

I don't think it's the track.
Evenly matched riders, important series of races, adrenaline, will to win all having an effect.

fryup

BMX is sooooo 80s

Macy0161

Eamonnator wrote: »

Riding in a group makes full tri bikes impractical

They're not actually allowed full TT/Tri Bikes anyway.

As for the BMX - pity they couldn't have borrowed some of those inflatable barriers for that road race descent!

Carawaystick

Beeb commentators saying there was a strong wind, the cause of some of the crashes, where over or underjumps happened.

ThisRegard

Hernandez in the ladies run 2 race has nothing on Froome running over the finish.

bazermc

Anybody watching the ladies triathlon.

I thought in a triathlon drafting wasn't allowed?