Paralympics Cycling Team - *Spoiler tags required for same day race info*

Lazairus

I , on behalf of Boards.ie 410 Cycling forum, wish All the paracycling Team, indeed all the Irish athletes competing in the para-olympics 2012 the very best of luck and they will do Ireland proud.






















Track photos are from Para olympics Ireland Facebook page

Other photos from SSCC R1 Irish Para- Cycling Series 2012

You can read all about Mark here

lennymc

ditto!

QueensGael

Best of luck to our athletes! Looking forward to watching the action

CramCycle

Whose the guy in the second last photo? He looks like an animal or the hulk, awesome photo.

morana

CramCycle wrote: »

Whose the guy in the second last photo? He looks like an animal or the hulk, awesome photo.

Cathal "hulk" Millar...the flagbearer

Beasty

morana wrote: »

Cathal "hulk" Millar...the flagbearer

He races regularly in the IVCA - I'm over next Thursday and Friday and should be seeing him and most of the others in some track sessions.

Pretty much the whole cycling team have excellent medal chances, including our very own Paralympic Cyclist

alexanderomahon

ádh mór

Captain Havoc

Opening cermony today, events are live on Setanta, if you're internet provider is eircom you can watch Setanta sports through eircom.net using Firefox or Internet Explorer. Channel 4 have "Meet the Superhumans" on tonight at 20h00 and will be showing live events. RTÉ will have highlights as well as broadcasting through their website. This week is dominated by track cycling with road races next week. More information can be got here..

I think everyone would like to give a special best of luck to fellow boardsie Colin Lynch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNw2OQUA0IQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKTamH__xuQ

Captain Havoc

Forgot to mention how much I like the Ireland jersey

biketard

Good luck, everyone.

QueensGael

Colin Lynch on the radio now - Today with Pat Kenny (with Myles)

www.rte.ie/radio

Beasty

Brown & Shaw into bronze medal ride-off in the blind pursuit. 3rd with one to go

Beasty

So having been front row near the start line this morning, I'm in the back row in the corner this afternoon. First up is C1,2,3 Men's kilo with Enda Smyth representing Ireland. It's going to be tough with 27 opponents.

Later will be the finals of this morning's pursuits

buffalo

Is anyone streaming this online? RTE doesn't appear to be.

ooh, I found Channel 4's stream - http://paralympics.channel4.com/video/index.html

Caroline_ie

http://www.paralympics.ie/live/ with Declan Quigley and Hugh Byrne.

buffalo

Caroline_ie wrote: »

http://www.paralympics.ie/live/ with Declan Quigley and Hugh Byrne.

Nice to hear Quigley's dulcet tones... I just remembered he owes me money!

MB Lacey

Caroline_ie wrote: »

http://www.paralympics.ie/live/ with Declan Quigley and Hugh Byrne.

thanks, the ch4 link told me 'not available in your country'.

ednwireland

Spain's Juan Jose Mendez

Captain Havoc

Cathal Millar looked like he sweated half his body weight there.

RobFowl

Catherine Walsh and Fran Meehan

have qualified for the Gold medal final in the pursuit. They came seconf with a new PB. Final is at 14.42. Good luck...

The Crunch

RobFowl wrote: »

Catherine Walsh and Fran Meehan

have qualified for the Gold medal final in the pursuit. They came seconf with a new PB. Final is at 14.42. Good luck...

Amazing ride by Catherine and Fran. Old world record pace in the final and a second PB of the day which is something else in pursuiting. I understand they put a bigger gear on for the final and rose to that challenge. Big ask, big answer. The New Zealanders are superstars and the Irish closed the gap in the final. Inspirational stuff.

RobFowl

http://www.paralympics.ie/live/

Wednesday 5th September:
Provisional Time Table

TIME TRIALS

10.35 Cathal Miller C5
11.12 Enda Smyth C3
11.43 Colin Lynch C2
14.41 Brown and Shaw Men’s Tandem
14.59 Dunlevy and Fitzgerald Women’s Tandem
15.03 Walsh and Meehan Women’s Tandem
16.05 Mark Rohan H1

CramCycle

RobFowl wrote: »

http://www.paralympics.ie/live/

Only getting Setanta live through that link, no paralympics on it so far

QueensGael

From the text feed on that link:


ONLINE MANAGER:
From what we can see there's no live feed by the host broadcaster today hut Paralympic highlights are available on Setanta from 15.30 - 17.30 and then again at 18.00

ONLINE MANAGER:

But you can still view and comment on live text commentary here for Irish Athletes!

So no pictures until later today

Beasty

I guess we'd better use spoiler tags then - I'll update the thread title

Beasty

Miller takes 11th place in the C5 (Clive Sinclair has a lot to answer for!!)

Beasty

Enda Smyth 14th in the C3 - I suspect he is still suffering from his accident a few weks ago

Our very own Paralympic Cyclist, Colin Lynch is up now in the C2

Beasty

Lynch takes 5th - I suspect the guys will be a bit disappointed not to pick up at least a medal amongst them this morning - still some good chances in the Tandem and Hand Cycle this afternoon

Beasty

Bronze for Catherine Walsh and Fran Meehan in the tandem, adding to their silver on the track earlier in the week

Katie George Dunlevy and Sandra Fitzgerald took a very creditable 5th, only 20s outside the medal places

Bronze also for James Brown and Damien Shaw in the men's event

RobFowl

Beasty wrote: »

Bronze for Catherine Walsh and Fran Meehan in the tandem, adding to their silver on the track earlier in the week

Katie George Dunlevy and Sandra Fitzgerald took a very creditable 5th, only 20s outside the medal places

:D:D:D

Beasty

Rohan leads by 18s at the 8km mark

RobFowl

@ParalympicsIRE

MEDAL ALERT! - MARK ROHAN TAKES GOLD IN TIME TRIAL FOR IRELAND!!!!! COME ON IRELAND!!!! #paralympicsire

Beasty

I'm pretty sure he's taken Gold - the official website has completely screwed up the timings, but he's currently shown as fastest - there are still some out on the course, so it's not official, but as he started last, unless they have got the timing wrong, he must have taken it

Seaneh

Gold for Athlone Well done Mark Rohan

irishbuzz

No one could deserve it more. Well done Mark

copeyhagen

well done Marky, we were all routing for ya in the office!!!

morana

Seaneh wrote: »

Gold for Athlone Well done Mark Rohan

Incorrect Gold for Ireland!

irishbuzz

Men's Individual H 1 Road Race

Mark is 5 seconds behind but in the chasing pack at the first 8km checkpoint

Beasty

Another Gold for Mark Rohan in the Road Race!!

Beasty

I believe morana is over at Brands Hatch - not sure "rejected by Liverpool" is considered enough of a disability for the Paralympics though

manwithaplan

Beasty wrote: »

not sure "rejected by Liverpool" is considered enough of a disability for the Paralympics though

Some paralympians have come through serious accidents so I think it would be unfair to include someone who has had a lucky escape.

Beasty

To be clear, this is not morana - I believe his "celebration" would be inappropriate to post on Boards;)



Apparently it's one of the coaches

RobFowl

His name is Gerry "Beasty" Beggs

Bit of crack and I take my hat off to the whole Irish team who have delivered far far far more than was expected. Kudo's to the Cycling coach Brian Nugent, a master of the timed events especially and surely a rising star of the Irish scene..

Captain Havoc

morana

Beasty wrote: »

I believe morana is over at Brands Hatch - not sure "rejected by Liverpool" is considered enough of a disability for the Paralympics though

Great day and great support for the team.

IT was tight coming into the last couple of Km's. He tried to make a move on the top of the hill and got a second or 2 but the Swiss lad got back on the descent but he won the sprint well go the line right and lead out from 150ish.

you are never rejected by LFC we are one huge family and even all mancs, cfc's who are Obssessed with LFC are welcome to join the family and the Rodgers Revolution!

YNWA