Olympic Cycling events

The BMX tracks are busy here, popular league in St Catherine's Park every week. Great for learning skills.

"As a first-year junior rider, Knight won silver in the individual pursuit at the European Track Championships for Ireland and competed for Ireland as a junior at the World Road Championships in 2014.

She also represented Ireland at the elite European Road Championships in 2016. Knight won the elite Irish omnium title on the track in 2016 and also rode the World Track Championships that season as part of the team pursuit line-up.

She eventually went on to declare for Great Britain, through family connections though she was brought up in Kerry, having first approached the British set-up in 2017 to join it."

Not the typical national switch story (such as an English guy with an Irish parent or grandparent), wouldn't you love to know the reasons why

Sounds like she considered herself British to begin with but She probably also knew that funding and facilities would be way way better. We don't even have a modern velodrome so I don't blame her but she does come off a bit ungrateful to the crowd who would actually pick her when she was young

Probably a similar story to Saskia Tidey in the 49er dinghy. Competed for Ireland in 2016, now competes for GBR. Much better facilities, support and funding available from TeamGBR.

officially its team GB&NI the uk does differ slightly as an entity

hmm wonder if this 4 year cycle thing has messed them up as they were always poor the year after the olympics, although they dont seem to be pulling the talent through and relying on senior squad members who dont seem to have it anymore.

or maybe it was just a once off generation.

i think they've been taken aback by how fast the german and danish. and the hope/lotus bikes dont seem to be any better than anyone elses track bikes

Saskia's original partner was Tiff Brien from Belfast, Andrea's original partner was Annalise Murphy's sister Claudine , halfway through the qualification for Rio both Tiff and Claudine gave up and Andrea and Saskia teamed up. Andrea competed for Ireland as she did not think she would get selected for Rio with GBR. Whereas Saskia left for GBR as Charlotte (her new helm) gave her a better chance of success, and there is a lot more funding and support to be had as part of TeamGBR.

I agree. It looks crap without the lads in the old timey gear who are old enough themselves to have raced against Merckx

Sandymount residents objected to it so it’s being shelved.

If Ineos were a country at the Olympics they'd be 20th in the medals table

Jumbo would be 30-something

If they cut down the swimming events rte would have nothing to show

Figuratively but may as well be literally, just hanging off the back all day. Un jour sans

Where would you actually get a 63T chain ring? The local sawmill?

Not sure who is commentating with Carlton on Eurosport... but I do enjoy how she just humours his inane ramblings.

She is just to polite to embarrass him with 20 corrections a race

The power and speed they are getting on the track is something else. Id say back in the day long before tv & internet when track cycling was a big thing on the continent it would have been some event to go to with thousands of pissed belgians or italians inside a velodrome watching the biggest names in cycling doing circles

God almighty, I thought yesterday's races were nuts 😱

I can't believe they don't wear body armour!!!

My 8 year old keenly observed why are they not elbow tapping instead of hand tagging cause of covid

You can't fling your partner forward with an elbow bump!!

Good on your 8 yr old all the same though!!