2016 Rio Olympics | CYCLING | August 6th thru August 21st

[yoteshot]

GB-Canada
USA-Australia
going for medals on Saturday in women's team pursuit

Australia-Canada will probably battle it out for bronze if logic is respected and they lose their first round. They were half a second apart in the qualifying, should make it mighty interesting!

 

[offkilter]

Hey, so USA won a gold medal in the women's time trials this morning.

You know what the best part of watching Kristin Armstrong winning was? After she crossed the line she was completely oblivious she did it. She had to be told she won by the officials then she broke down in tears and hugged her little toddler son. Very moving.

 

[Jack Straw]

British men are flying in the team pursuit

 

[Shrimper]

Gold!

 

[Shrimper]

What a final!

 

[Soliloquy of a Dogge]

Canadian women win Bronze in team pursuit!

USA should win Silver in a bit. The Brits will romp to Gold.

Awesome to see the women continuing to kick ass!

 

[Shrimper]

USA got destroyed!

 

[Eisen]

Love what the Brits did for their velodrome guys. They do something right.

 

[Soliloquy of a Dogge]

USA got destroyed!

Not as bad as the Brits did by the Fijians in Rugby.

 

[JaysCyYoung]

The British are nearly unbeatable in the cycling events. Holy hell have they ever been dominant in the sport the past few Olympics. The ancestral part of me is loving it. What sort of program do they have across the pond that manages to produce these cyclists?

 

[Eisen]

The British are nearly unbeatable in the cycling events. Holy hell have they ever been dominant in the sport the past few Olympics. The ancestral part of me is loving it. What sort of program do they have across the pond that manages to produce these cyclists?

Financial support.

 

[Very Stable Genius]

OT: Sir Chris Hoy must be absolutely loving life. Dominates Olympics, knighted, then decides to start racing cars and gets to drive at the 24hrs of Le Mans.

 

[Shrimper]

The British are nearly unbeatable in the cycling events. Holy hell have they ever been dominant in the sport the past few Olympics. The ancestral part of me is loving it. What sort of program do they have across the pond that manages to produce these cyclists?

There was a brief piece on the TV for it a few days ago about how we're so good. It is mostly financial support. For this Olympics it got £30m in funding and they said that they only buy the best. If it doesn't work, they don't want it. Only Rowing gets more funding.

 

[Miamipuck]

Financial support.

Haha not a very complicated answer but probably 100% truth.

 

[Mount Suribachi]

Cycling has also got massive in the UK in the last 10 years - way more people on the roads. All the bike sheds at work are overflowing in the summer. I live in a rural part of the country, quite sparsely populated and you see dozens of club cyclists out every Sunday morning. Never used to be the case.

So bigger talent pool, lots of funding - they also got ahead of everyone else on the sports science curve. Chris Boardman does a lot of the cycling commentary in the UK and he is so into the science of the sport (no surprise as he won his medals largely because he was the first guy to apply a scientific approach to cycling)

 

[Shrimper]

I wonder what medals we'll get later, hmm

 

[Very Stable Genius]

Well their bikes are Canadian so don't give them all the praise.

 

[Vasilevskiy]

Financial support.

This.

Cycling has also got massive in the UK in the last 10 years - way more people on the roads. All the bike sheds at work are overflowing in the summer. I live in a rural part of the country, quite sparsely populated and you see dozens of club cyclists out every Sunday morning. Never used to be the case.

So bigger talent pool, lots of funding - they also got ahead of everyone else on the sports science curve. Chris Boardman does a lot of the cycling commentary in the UK and he is so into the science of the sport (no surprise as he won his medals largely because he was the first guy to apply a scientific approach to cycling)

The only thing that the "science" approach of things is doing to cycling is ruining it (Road cycling I talk about). And I don't talk about the materials used, I'm talking about the riding approach that SKY came and applied... and they're slowly transforming cyclists into robots that only know to look at their watts machine and ride according the numbers they see on the little screen. /rant

 

[Daisy Jane]

I love sprints... it's like the ultimate game of chicken.

 

[Daisy Jane]

GBR cyclists are freaks

 

[Eisen]

I love sprints... it's like the ultimate game of chicken.

Love the velodrome in general.

 

[Shrimper]

If we get 1&2 in the Women's too...

 

[Vasilevskiy]

Omnium is awesome

 

[Daisy Jane]

this sucks, two canadians in the reperchage.

 

[Daisy Jane]

and both canadians are eliminated. blegh.