4 cycling gold medals and no thread.

[Stat Brother]

Pretty much as the title suggests.
2 days into the World Track Cycling, in Manchester (on BBC2) and we've already won 4 golds and broken 1 world record.

Don't start on drugs, because we have the cleanest, best, cycling programme in the world, which is now bearing fruit.
Come the olymics it'll be the only sport we consistantly win medals at, so get in early.

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

*cue a load of complaints about jumping red lights and riding on the pavements*

 

[REDLAND]

AND 2 new World records, Britain is the SHIZNIT at 2 wheeled sports !!!

 

[adrian29uk]

Cycling will always play second fiddle to David Beckhams golden boots, or his latest haircut in this country. Its a shame because the mentatility towards cycling, cyclists is disgusting.

Take France, Belguin, Holland their cyclists are so well respected they are actually on a level par with footballers.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

and Victoria P is a lot FITTER than most of our sports stars, which is an added bonus. I actualy quite like Shanaze Reade too, even if she does have bigger thighs than Stuart Pearce.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

WORLD CHAMPION Victoria Pendleton;

in her civvies....

WORLD CHAMPION Shanaze Reade;

WORLD CHAMPION Rebecca Romero...

 

[John Bumlick]

i'm terribly sorry. no-one told me i was supposed to give a shit.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

You don't have to 'give a shit'. Nor do you have to 'give a shit' whether GB wins any gold medals in Beijing. As things stand, expect the cyclists to win two-thirds of the total medals we win. If it were not for them and the rowers we may as well not bother sending a team at all.

 

[John Bumlick]

You don't have to 'give a shit'. Nor do you have to 'give a shit' whether GB wins any gold medals in Beijing. As things stand, expect the cyclists to win two-thirds of the total medals we win. If it were not for them and the rowers we may as well not bother sending a team at all.

we shouldn't be sending a team to Beijing anyway and that's got nothing to do with whether i 'give a shit' about medals or not.

 

[Uncle C]

Thighs that could crack walnuts

 

[SeagullRic]

My friend is in the 'talent team' for cycling. This basically means he may be good enough to compete in the 2012 Olympics.

 

[Stat Brother]

Now standing at 6 golds, Chris Hoy was bloody amazing.

 

[dougdeep]

A great display by the British team. At least we're good at something.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Chris Hoy

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Bicyclists will never capture the British public's imagination until they reveal themselves on the front page of the NOTW to be bisexualists.

We know what we are interested in - and, sadly, it's not excellence that gets us excited, it's FAILURE.

 

[Stat Brother]

Bicyclists will never capture the British public's imagination until they reveal themselves on the front page of the NOTW to be bisexualists.

We know what we are interested in - and, sadly, it's not excellence that gets us excited, it's FAILURE.

Sadly true.
You can't see the Yanks Aussie's et al treating people who work hard to reach the top of there sport being treated so badly.

I guess the other side is, when the programme for cycling greatness was set up 10 or so years ago. A large amount of cash was spent, but people, who doesn't understand the sport, haven't been jumping up and down with unrealist targets.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Brilliant display from Chris Hoy. An astounding amount of power and finesse.

 

[Stat Brother]

My last day of keeping this on the first page.

Yesterdays Madison was also a superb performance, from the boys.

Woman on 5-live this morning:-
"How come you've got so good at cycling, all of a sudden".

I can't believe the guy didn't reply:-

It's taken 10 years to be this good, but all you (the media) think about is 1 overpaid thug kicking and swearing at another overpaid thug.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Final medal table.

Country Gold Silver Bronze
Great Britain 9 2 0
Nederlands 4 2 2
Belarus 2 0 1
France 1 2 4
Denmark 1 1 1

 

[REDLAND]

Final medal table.

Country Gold Silver Bronze
Great Britain 9 2 0
Nederlands 4 2 2
Belarus 2 0 1
France 1 2 4
Denmark 1 1 1

yer that is proper good, well done Britain !!!