2016 UEC Elite Track Championships - no spoiler tags required

Beasty

Start tomorrow in Saint Quentin en-Yvelines with the team pursuit qualifiers, both TTs, Women's elimination, Men's scratch and the"Stayers" race where each rider is paced by a motorbike

Eurosport are providing coverage but only from Thursday by the looks of it

As usual we will keep discussion within this thread without spoiler tags

Ireland are represented by Eoin Mullen, Felix English, Fintan Ryan and Marc Potts on the men's team. Some new faces in the women's squad which comprises Lydia Boylan, Eileen Burns, Lydia Gurley, Shannon McCurley, Eimear Moran, Anna Turvey and Robyn Stewart

The Omnium is changing to a single day 4 discipline event, with Scratch, Tempo, Elimination and Points races

The Tempo is new and is similar to the Points race, but the sprints in this case are, after the first 5 laps, every lap with extra points for taking a lap. 1 point for a sprint, 4 for taking a lap

The Points race reverts to having double points on the final sprint

Beasty

The Irish ladies of Boylan, Burns, Gurley and Turvey 8th fastest in the TP in 4:40.347.

They will be up against 5th fastest Belgium in the 1st round.

Robyn Stewart has set a time of 36.663 and Eimear Moran 37.296 in the TT

Felix English will be in the scratch and Lydia Gurley in the elimination races later on

kumate_champ07

that sounds like a new Irish ladies 500m record

Beasty

Lydia Boylan did 36.628 in last year's Euros

Beasty

Lydia Gurley 15th in the Elimination (won by Kirsten Wild)
Felix English 5th in the Scratch (won by Gael Suter of Switzerand who took a lap along with Pole Adrian Teklinski)

Beasty

Today we have the Team Pursuits moving through to the medal races. Eimear Moran and Robyn Stewart are due to race in the Team Sprint and Fintan Ryan is on the start list for the Elimination Race. There is no start list up yet for the women's Scratch Race which also takes place this evening

Beasty

Only 3 heats to go, and Anna Turvey has put in a fantastic performance in the IP, currently lying first of the 15 that have gone so far (still some very fast riders to come though). Her time was 3:36.017 only 1.8s outside Caroline Ryan's Irish record

Beasty

2nd place with only 2 riders to go, she's now guaranteed a medal race later on today

Beasty

3rd fastest - she will go for bronze against Ina Sevanka of Belarus later on (the Belarussian was 1.7s slower than Anna)

Beasty

.... and she takes the bronze. Great performance. Well done Anna.