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Rio - Track Cycling events - no spoiler tags required

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  • #362
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    They are looking at it and not the tv.

    If TV programmes about TV programmes thought me anything it's that there's a sweaty chain smoking director in there barking orders to the desk about which camera to switch to. Currently that desk jockey from earlier is packing his desk.


  • #363
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    COM ON CAV!!!

    Still have slight doubts following that crash though.

    :(


  • #364
    SwissToni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 152 ✭✭SwissToni


    He's had a bit of practice

    https ://m.youtube. com/watch?v=fjLFNfIrti8

    (Can't post links, remove spaces)


  • #365
    ThisRegard
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    I'm glad I'm watching this live this evening, I've been stung several times by the BBC with their switching of coverage from channel to channel.


  • #366
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,075 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Surely couldn't have been a deliberate attempt to take out a rival by Cav, he could have come off worse than anyone he connected with...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • #367
    Beasty
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    Kennett only a point behind Cav now


  • #368
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    SwissToni wrote: »
    He's had a bit of practice

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fjLFNfIrti8

    (Can't post links, remove spaces)
    .
    There you go


  • #369
    SwissToni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 152 ✭✭SwissToni


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    That's a terrible thing to say.

    Sorry, I tried to get on the Cav bandwagon but there was no room left ;)


  • #370
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,075 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Tweet fronm JK Rowling... I think I agree...
    "Don't you DARE tell me Quidditch is hard to understand #pointsrace #cycling #Olympics"

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #371
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    SwissToni wrote: »
    He's had a bit of practice

    https ://m.youtube. com/watch?v=fjLFNfIrti8

    (Can't post links, remove spaces)

    Wow, one shoulder to shoulder crash has what exactly to do with this?


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  • #372
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    SwissToni wrote: »
    Sorry, I tried to get on the Cav bandwagon but there was no room left ;)

    I ain't on it either but I disagree with what you are saying.


  • #373
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    https://twitter.com/ukcyclingexpert/status/765294241446764545
    UK Cycling Expert ‏@ukcyclingexpert
    Rules: 160 laps, sprints for points every 10 laps; 20 points for lapping the peleton; 50 points for knocking off a rival competitor.


  • #374
    CrowdedHouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,115 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    What's yer man in the blazer pointing at?

    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • #375
    dastardly00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,618 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    Imagine Kelly commentating on this...
    Calculation & bonifications aplenty!! :pac:


  • #376
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,118 ✭✭✭✭neris


    go lassie go


  • #377
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    CrowdedHouse wrote: »
    What's yer man in the blazer pointing at?

    the leader


  • #378
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,118 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Raam wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/ukcyclingexpert/status/765294241446764545

    one of the best twitter cycling accounts around


  • #379
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    I'm telling yis, that director. They've missed several attempts at breaks after the sprint.


  • #380
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,118 ✭✭✭✭neris


    dastardly00 wrote: »
    Imagine Kelly commentating on this...
    Calculation & bonifications aplenty!! :pac:

    could you imagine Calton commentating on this page


  • #381
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    pretty much settled now


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  • #382
    Beasty
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    Viviani was arguably just about as careless there


  • #383
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Beasty wrote: »
    Viviani was arguably just about as careless there

    What happened?


  • #384
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Cavincrash.

    https://twitter.com/matijn/status/765295129481674754


  • #385
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,075 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Well done to all three medal winners, Viviani getting back up to win gold, Cav and Lasse Hansen worthy podiums... what a race!

    As Claire Balding said... the race was "so tense, for so long". Felt like every sprint counted.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #386
    ThisRegard
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    I thought Cav might have pushed harder for gold, might he be disappointed? He doesn't look overjoyed.

    I suppose hadn't he messed up in the elimination he would have been in a much better place coming in.


  • #387
    SwissToni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 152 ✭✭SwissToni


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    I ain't on it either but I disagree with what you are saying.

    It's a fine line between an accident and deliberate action, you see it one way I see it another, I just think he has crossed that fine line a couple of times now, but that's part of what makes him the sprinter he is.


  • #388
    Pantanifan84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭Pantanifan84


    What a race. Eh how can I tell the wife I "need" a track bike?


  • #389
    Beasty
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    Raam wrote: »
    What happened?
    He forced a rider off the track by coming down in a similar fashion (although not as sharp as it was coming onto the straight rather then on the steep bend) to Cav


  • #390
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,796 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Pantanifan84 wrote: »
    What a race. Eh how can I tell the wife I "need" a track bike?

    how do i tell the lotto we need 20 mill to build a velodrome in the town

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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  • #391
    Beasty
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    Pantanifan84 wrote: »
    What a race. Eh how can I tell the wife I "need" a track bike?
    Track bikes are (OK can be!) very cheap with little to go wrong (until you crash in spectacular fashion!)


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