Olympic Track Cycling

[Stat Brother]

Woohoo, todays the day, it's finally arrived, the start for our finest medal prospects is upon us.
To say I'm a little excited about this, is an understatement.

I was chatting with BoF about how traditionally Team GB are reserved as athletes. Well nobody told Bradley Wiggins, that:-

"1 gold medal will be disappointing, 2 is satisfactory, winning all 3 would be good".

Not heard from Cavendish yet, I wonder if the team are keeping him 'under wraps' as he's prone to shoot from the lip.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Just about to get the telly on, cannot wait, such a shame the IOC took out about a quarter of the events that we were damn hot on.

Come on team GB lets show the world why we are world champions.

 

[Trigger]

I want to HUMP Victoria Pendleton.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Woohoo, todays the day, it's finally arrived, the start for our finest medal prospects is upon us.
To say I'm a little excited about this, is an understatement.

I was chatting with BoF about how traditionally Team GB are reserved as athletes. Well nobody told Bradley Wiggins, that:-

"1 gold medal will be disappointing, 2 is satisfactory, winning all 3 would be good".

Not heard from Cavendish yet, I wonder if the team are keeping him 'under wraps' as he's prone to shoot from the lip.

Aparently Bradley has been hitting consisitent times that almost guarntee him wins, so I presume he is confident knowing he just needs to deliver.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

I want to HUMP Victoria Pendleton.

I don't think cycle humping is an olympic sport until 2012

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Next heat

Great Britain (Jamie Staff (man 1) Jason Kenny (man 2) Chris Hoy (man 3)
Germany (Rene Enders, Maximilian Levy, Stefan Nimke)

 

[Frutos]

One of our guys in this one (Kenney, I think) looks like the cycling is something he does if he gets time after finishing his primary school homework.

We appear to be absolutely flying here so far....and that's a World Record to get us started.

 

[Seasider]

Just smashed the world record GET IN

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Come on!!! That was AWESOME!

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

And the French are SLOW

 

[SurreySeagulls]

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Marvelous Scenes! Hugh Porter having multiple ORGASMS!!

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Just a heat and a world record, the organisation behind this cycling team is fantastic, they reckon they can deliver a Tour de France Team and winner in the coming years.

Team Pursuit up next with

Heat 2
Carlos Alzate (Colombia)
Steven Burke (Great Britain)

Heat 9
Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain)
Alexei Markov (Russia)


Live Reports of the Track Competition

 

[Bozza]

Heard Chris Boardman on 5Live earlier this week talking about prospects for 'Team GB'. He said quite clearly that if there wasn't a genuine and realistic belief that a cyclist could get a medal, then they weren't sent to the Olympics as it wasn't good for the cyclist.

Quite refreshingly blunt - none of this "He's got a PB and you can't ask for more than that" approach that seems to prevail in many other sports, where they ignore that the PB is only good enough to finish 127th in the world.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Stephen Burke just took 9 seconds off his PB, impressive stuff.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

The qualifying results (official) are: GB will meet USA in round 1.

1 Great Britain 17.198(1) 29.753(1) 42.950 62.863
2 France 17.419(2) 30.112(2) 43.541 62.010
3 Germany 17.509(3) 30.536(3) 44.197 61.090
4 Netherlands 17.650(5) 30.617(4) 44.213 61.068
5 Australia 17.542(4) 30.634(5) 44.335 60.899
6 Japan 17.751(7) 30.868(6) 44.454 60.736
7 Malaysia 18.019(11) 31.324(9) 44.725 60.368
8 United States 17.984(10) 31.251(8) 45.346 59.542

Wiggins is up for his first ride the heat sfter next.

 

[footychick]

On now.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Wiggins FIRING around the track!!!

New olympic record!

 

[footychick]

New Olympic record!

Beat me too it.

 

[Simster]

12:10pm ish - France v Britain for GOLD/SILVER at the Velodrome.

Marvellous.