World Track Champs

TinyExplosions

Did anyone watch the semi-finals of the men's sprint yesterday? Gregory Bauge vs Kevin Sireau? Bit of bumping, Sireau went down and Bauge went very sideways... can't find a video of it online, but these pics show the look on Bauge's face -an awesome bit of bike handling to keep it upright

Raam

I really don't like watching them fall and still being connected to the bike.

Raam

more here: http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/kevin_sireaus_spectacular_sprint_crash_article_279679.html?aff=rss

DirkVoodoo

Yeah was watching it on Eurosport. They also showed Chris Hoy's fall again in the commentary, they really do fall pretty hard.

Ghost Rider

Is there any more coverage of this coming up on telly?

Eurosport generally seems very unpredictable in its coverage of cycling. Today's scheduled programme, "British Premier Cycling" (whatever that even is), just didn't happen.

Instead we were treated to a load of inexplicable* tennis...


* The tennis was explicable enough, but the presence of it wasn't.

stopped_clock

I think the Premier Calendar events in the UK are having trouble with cancellations at the moment - maybe they had to change schedule at the last minute.

Ghost Rider

Maybe but I tend to think it's because Eurosport is just a bit crazier than all the other channels. (I mean the name says it all, doesn't it? What's next, Fred Sport?) Later this evening there was some sport on involving a load of blokes on motorbikes covered in mud. My UPC box, presumably on Eurosport's advice, was describing it as "Chinese Snooker"...

stopped_clock wrote: »

I think the Premier Calendar events in the UK are having trouble with cancellations at the moment - maybe they had to change schedule at the last minute.

stopped_clock

Ghost Rider wrote: »

...some sport on involving a load of blokes on motorbikes covered in mud... "Chinese Snooker"

Class!

TinyExplosions

The UPC Guide is very often wrong when it come to Eurosport -I tend to ignore it totally, and rely on the website.

British Premier Cycling is the domestic pro racing, but as stopped_clock said, there have been lots of problems lately with the police closing races over issues of safety as the roads aren't closed (see here for an example)

Chips Lovell

Raam wrote: »

more here: http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/kevin_sireaus_spectacular_sprint_crash_article_279679.html?aff=rss

Rolled a tub. Ouch.

Ghost Rider

I agree. That's why I used the website to begin with. It had also listed the British Premier cycling and made no mention of a change in schedule. Crazy times call for crazy channels.

TinyExplosions wrote: »

The UPC Guide is very often wrong when it come to Eurosport -I tend to ignore it totally, and rely on the website.

British Premier Cycling is the domestic pro racing, but as stopped_clock said, there have been lots of problems lately with the police closing races over issues of safety as the roads aren't closed (see here for an example)