IOC turns track events upside down

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  • oldwelshman
    oldwelshman Posts: 4,733
    paulcuthbert wrote:
    Something Taylor Phinney of Trek Livestrong U23 was campaigning against...

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ioc-turns-track-events-upside-down

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8403854.stm

    Personally I think the changrs are crap.
    How can you scrap points and individual pursuit then have team sprint and keirin.
    Now theres 3 sprint events, team pursuit and omnium so it is heavily sprint orientated,
    So it looks if your a sprinter you get three chances to medal if endurance rider, you get one, either team pursuit or omnium, no way can you do both.
    http://s290.photobucket.com/albums/ll245/oldwelshman/
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK5Bfqj5fxY
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    What hit home for me was Pendleton's comment on the 500m TT at the World Cup ... "not wasting time/effort at a non-Olympic event". It would be a terrible shame to see the individual pursuit viewed in this light. As a newcomer to following cycling, not just track cycling, the IP was one of the stand-out events. Not just a rider against the stopwatch, against the numbers, but a rider directly against their opponent, time and time again, through the heats.
  • grim3ur
    grim3ur Posts: 46
    Whats gets me is the Ominium, its not even a world cup event, nonsense.

    The pursuit was great to watch, I like individual events - very 'Gladiator-ish'
  • RPMcoaching
    RPMcoaching Posts: 27
    Gutted to see the IP go.

    It's great to increase the womens events, but not like this, at the expense of some of the best events and by making a silly omnium as an excuse to say more events, when in fact it's really only one.

    a f200 tt in the omnium, what's the point? the sprinters still need to do them for qualifying in MS, it's only going to confuse the public...
  • coventryeagle
    coventryeagle Posts: 20
    yes the IP has gone but does this mean they are going to do more tandem racing.
    or 4 person tamdem racing bikes for the track ?

    :lol: sorry have I got the wrong era again :?: :roll:

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