2013 Track Cycling World Championships - **warning** contains unmasked spoilers

Beasty

Start in Minsk tomorrow

Official Website here

Irish Team:

Martyn Irvine - Individual Pursuit and Scratch (both Thursday)
Eoin Mullen - Sprint (Saturday/Sunday)
Caroline Ryan - Individual Pursuit (Wednesday), Points (Saturday) and Scratch (Friday)

TV Coverage on BBC (HD and BBC 2, possibly on the red buttion also)
Eurosport usually cover this but I can't see it on their schedules

**Spoilers** - thread title amended - spoiler tags no longer required, but don't look in the later pages of this thread if you wish to watch delayed coverage

lennymc

best of luck to the guys!

2011abc

Would hate to be a pursuiter trying to peak for February finals !What was wrong with towards end of road season ?!

Beasty

2011abc wrote: »

Would hate to be a pursuiter trying to peak for February finals !What was wrong with towards end of road season ?!

Because the track season takes place (currently at least) over the Northen Hemisphere's winter. There is talk of moving it to the summer mind. Because it's (typically) indoors, track cycling lends itself to being a winter sport;)

Harrybelafonte

Will also be available online here at UCI official YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ucichannel

Beasty

Caroline Ryan takes 5th place in the pursuit qualification, just missing out on a medal ride

Brad768

Videos now up of the mens 1km TT and womens team sprint qualifying
http://www.youtube.com/user/ucichannel/videos?view=0

Harrybelafonte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gigUEtN3zLU

Quick little vid with our own Eoin Mullen

ednwireland

bbc coverage

World Track Championships

Thursday 21 February

1600-1900, Red Button and online

1600, BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra

1615-1800, BBC Two and BBC HD

Friday 22 February

1600-1900, Red Button and online

1600, BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra

1615-1800, BBC Two and BBC HD

2200-0700, Highlights on the Red Button

Saturday 23 February

1600, BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra

1715-1900, BBC Two/online and HD

2100-2315, Highlights on the Red Button

Sunday 24 February

1100-1405, BBC Two/online and HD

1100, BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra

2030-2305, Highlights on the Red Button

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/16233229

Beasty

Busy day for Mr Irvine today, with qualification for the pursuit underway this morning. He needs a top 4 place to get into a medal race this evening - if he makes it he'll then have to do the scratch shortly after

Beasty

Irvine is actually ranked third meaning he rides in the penultimate heat. However a number of teams have sent younger riders for the experience and their ranking may be a bit misleading because they have not done events at this level before - one of the early guys beat Martyn's PB which probably means he's going to have to improve it again to qualify

Beasty

Martyn Irvine in first place with 2 to go - broken his PB by 2 and a half seconds. Guaranteed a medal race - Phenominal !!!

Beasty

Qualifies 2nd - guaranteed at least a silver medal - up against Aussie Michael Hepburn in tonight's final. Fantastic result!!

Lusk Doyle

Beasty wrote: »

Qualifies 2nd - guaranteed at least a silver medal - up against Aussie Michael Hepburn in tonight's final. Fantastic result!!

What time later?

Beasty

Lusk Doyle wrote: »

What time later?

4.45 I think, and dependent on the finish of the women's TT - hopefully live on BBC 2

EDIT - then he has to do the scratch race just over half an hour later!

morana

What a ride! I didnt want to say it but I had the targets for each rider and he has achieved his! Delighted

Beasty

Bit of a quandry for Martyn - does he give it a go against the current World champion, who was nearly 2s faster this morning (and over 5s faster in last year's Worlds), or does he try and save something for the scratch race, where he probably has as good a chance as anyone given his current form? The heart says go for it, but the head says he should hold something back - even then he has very little time to recover for the scratch race

manwithaplan

Beasty wrote: »

Bit of a quandry for Martyn - does he give it a go against the current World champion, who was nearly 2s faster this morning (and over 5s faster in last year's Worlds), or does he try and save something for the scratch race, where he probably has as good a chance as anyone given his current form? The heart says go for it, but the head says he should hold something back - even then he has very little time to recover for the scratch race

There is no choice to make. How could you give it anything other than all you have got in a world championship final? There is no respectable way of riding the race that will make a significant difference to the scratch race anyway.

Lusk Doyle

manwithaplan wrote: »

There is no choice to make. How could you give it anything other than all you have got in a world championship final? There is no respectable way of riding the race that will make a significant difference to the scratch race anyway.

Loser mentality from the beast fella!

Beasty

Lusk Doyle wrote: »

Loser mentality from the beast fella!

Au contraire Rodders - I just think he has a good chance in the scratch race, although knowing him as I do I suspect he'll go all-out in the pursuit anyway. However if he's a second or so down after a couple of km it may make sense to ease off a little - he will have virtually no preparation time for the scratch as the medal ceremony takes place between the 2 races

Trojan

I see where you're coming from Beasty but I don't think he can do anything other than give it all from the off

Beasty

Irvine takes Silver - first Irishman to get a World track medal since morana was racing Harry Reynolds in 1896

buffalo

Like this factoid:

Ireland's Martyn Irvine is already guaranteed to be the first Irishman to win a world track cycling medal since Harry Reynolds in Copenhagen in 1896

edit: Beaten to it!

Trojan

"For a country that doesn't even have a velodrome, that's pretty good."

Harrybelafonte

F'kin UCI have not made the live feed on YouTube available, here. And I'd just sat down with a cup of tea.

manwithaplan

in fairness to Beasty I think he did ease off once his chance was gone. Scratch race should be fun. It's like an omnium day for him.

Harrybelafonte

manwithaplan wrote: »

in fairness to Beasty I think he did ease off once his chance was gone. Scratch race should be fun. It's like an omnium day for him.

Why wouldn't he ease off though. Anyone with a race in 30 minutes is going to recover as much as possible.

spyderski

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

F'kin UCI have not made the live feed on YouTube available, here. And I'd just sat down with a cup of tea.

http://livetvcafe.net/video/SRYB965N9UH6/BBC-Two

Enjoy the tea!

Trojan

If that don't work for you, it's also available if you look for "First Row Sports", Other, Other, and choose Link1.

manwithaplan

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Why wouldn't he ease off though. Anyone with a race in 30 minutes is going to recover as much as possible.

It was the sensible thing to do once it was clear he couldn't win alright.

lennymc

watching the scratch on the red button

Darkglasses

YAAHOOOOO! What a ride!

Trojan

INCREDIBLE!

lennymc

fcukin deadly!!!

Darkglasses

That was astonishing, never looked like he could hold onto that lead!

buffalo

What a fantastic finish!! Irvine attacks with ten laps to go, and holds off in a two-up sprint!! GOLD MEDAL!!

TheBlaaMan

WOW ! WOW ! WOW!

Fan-fcukintastic performance !!!

torturedsoul

Take A BOW!!!

lennymc

guys - use spoiler tags - just in case!!!

manwithaplan

wow! Absolutely amazing. Balls out fearless riding gets him what he richly deserved. I got into zone 5 just watching.

CaoimH_in

I couldn't believe it was happening. I thought I was dreaming.

morana

he asked for a bigger gear after the pursuit. he said he would give it a right good lash!I hope the sports council are watching

n-dawg

What a move! You could see he was keen for the break, always staying in the front 4 or 5. I recon he saw that they were about to lap a big group of back markers and used them to hide from the chasers. Thought it would be silver when the Austrian got him but he held the sprint line and forced the Austrian the long way round. Amazing!!!

torturedsoul

Its been a long time since Ireland have had much to cheer about in cycling... What a day one silver one gold and the giro to start here next year!!

Beasty

Just home from the commute - did I miss something?

Oh, and

Beasty wrote: »

Au contraire Rodders - I just think he has a good chance in the scratch race, although knowing him as I do I suspect he'll go all-out in the pursuit anyway. However if he's a second or so down after a couple of km it may make sense to ease off a little - he will have virtually no preparation time for the scratch as the medal ceremony takes place between the 2 races

The guy is a complete legend ....

irishbuzz

Super stuff!

torturedsoul

The Race is on BBC interactive now again

downwiththatsor

Repeat of mens scratch race on bbc red button now as live coverage is finishing up

torturedsoul

F**King hell I swear I was pretending something went in my eye during the anthem

morana

Champagne for the Board meeting on Friday Night!

RobFowl

http://www.rte.ie/sport/cycling/2013/0221/368886-irvine-going-for-gold-in-track-championships/