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all about timing.
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Mad Mick gave me 10-1
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For a while, he looked so embarrassed, i thought he was going to put his hand up and say "it was me, I should be disqualified" I would have heartily applauded him for that! Sadly, not!
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Some strange people on hear, how could he be dq, he hit the line at the same time..
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No, he didn't
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Even Chris Hoy said it was him.
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You meant here , presumably.
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Some strange people on hear, how could he be dq, he hit the line at the same time..CrazyCrazyCrazy
Both should have been DQ |
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Talk us through the official rule then Pond!
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The weird bike had not left the track when the penalty was called ....QED
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If Kenny gets 3 golds in the next Olympics... He'll be ...ermmm.... On a par with...ermmm... Usain
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no, i meant he hit the line just behind the bike, technically the judge would have had banned loads as it was about when the moped left the track, poor rules that need rewriting but doesnt deserve such hatred from people who dont know about the rules let alone know what day it is.
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I have never heard of Paul Radmilovic shown on that list of most GB gold medals. Checking his wiki page,he was a Welshman who won three golds in water polo and one in swimming.
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I wish they would use lottery money for charity, not for these expensive jollies. At least I don't buy lottery tickets, so it's not my money being wasted on this rubbish! I don't hate them though.
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Silver medal for Jack Laugher.
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Seems strange how our olympians are now criticised because we are winning too many medals - the same detractors would be just as vociferous if we weren't winning medals saying they were all useless! - damned if you do ..........
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So you have used the words jollie, rubbish but dont hate, maybe you could tell us your English word that you want to use ?
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rule doesn't need re-writing at all. As already described by Boardman
3.2.140 In the case when one or more riders pass the back wheel of the pacer before he leaves the track, the race will be stopped and rerun without the rider(s) at fault, which will be disqualified Rule as clear as daylight. Both gold and bronze medalist should have been DQd. |
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when does electric bike leave the track, the electric bike doesnt normally leave of half a lap, want them all banned.
Like i said, it needs rewording. |
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Rule as clear as daylight until ...
1) the derny-rider didn't seem to do the usual acceleration prior to leaving the track on either of the false-races ... 2) the derny-rider may well have left the track marginally later than the riders expected in the first false-race ... and 3) the judges didn't have anywhere near the correct camera angle upon which to make a disqualification. Without the first false-race, I reckon the German would have been chucked out for his offence but it looked to me like the full-time cycling officials weren't happy with the derny-rider who counted as a Rio-official rather than a UCI-official. Hence all the potential disqualifications survived, rightly so in my view as the rulebook (including any guidelines for the derny-rider) clearly needs a lot of tightening. |
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left the track at the correct point. You would need to read the rules before claiming they should be re-written.
Riders compete in a sprint after completing a number of laps behind a motorized pacer who leaves the track 600/700 meters before the finish |
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Marvellous scenes,more gold,more success = more seething and self loathing
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Sounds very precise for a major sport, Racingqueen. Just the 100 metres in it
 Mind you this bit is clear - 3.2.140 - In the case when one or more riders pass the back wheel of the pacer before he leaves the track, the race will be stopped and rerun without the rider(s) at fault, which will be disqualified. That'll be the whole of the back wheel will it? and assuming that, how much of the rider or his bike must pass that back wheel. Is it the whole of the rider, or does it need to be the whole of his or her bike. You've uniquely and obviously got this buttoned up so do help us innocents. |
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You should read the rule book blackbarn. Its on the UCI website and has been in use for a number of years(8) now without any previous issue.
Just to clear up though no part of any competitors bike can pass any part of the derny hth Heres an example to display a little clearer what should happen when a rider even slightly passes a dernys back wheel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Rg364CY6Q |
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Balding's just got through a whole interview sequence there without saying the word 'emotional' once, she must have already hit the target for her bonus.
I'm a bit emotional myself - 'Chappers' who is just about tolerable on a weekly basis on MOTD2 is annoying and irritating me in equal measure. |
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johnnythebull 16 Aug 16 21:13
he is actually an obnoxious,whining little c*nt when things don't go his way got all the help from his lead out guys to nick those sprints in the TdeF then left them all to ride the mountains in the last week while he f*cked off if i was his Directeur Sportif i'd have told him u've just done ur last ride for the team he speaks very highly of you; obnoxious,whining little c*nt |
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"johnnythebull" is clearly unaware that Cavendish's Directeur Sportif along with his mountain-crossing colleagues would've been delighted with Cav staying the Tour de France as long as he did rather than bemoaning his pre-Olympic exit with a week of the T-de-F to go because, by then, they'd all picked up tidy shares of Cav's multi-stage-winning prize money and, therefore, picked up much more dosh themselves from the race (and kept their spnsors far happier with Cav's high-profile exposure) than if they hadn't included him in their squad.
Meanwhile, thank you "Racingqueen" for a youtube keirin clip that involves a blatant disqualification case less than a lap into the derny's 5-&-half laps of pacing rather than the two incidents tonight that both centred on the derny's lack of acceleration clear of the field at the end of its duty. I've been watching top-level keirin racing for over 20 years (well before its Olympic debut in 2000) and can't recall a more sluggish departure by the derny from a major race than what we saw tonight, even on the 3rd version once the coaches had all been read the riot act by the officials. I suggest you look at the rest of the Belgian Open 2014 keirin clips alongisde the one you've linked towards here because the derny-rider consistently peels off much earlier in the back straight of the appropriate lap than tonight's derny-rider while also accelerating from roughly a 23-second lap to a 20-second lap. Having had a look back at tonight's action, I'm more certain than ever that very sub-standard derny-riding was by far tonight's biggest problem. |
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Its great to read a post from someone who knows what they are talking about dalbers
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Thanks patrick ... it's very clear looking back at tonight's coverage that the full-time cycling officials are as frustrated as the riders and coaches by they also regarded as derny-riding that didn't match the riders' expectations.
There have been other cases in Rio of the local organising duties being way below the competitors' expectations ... Brendan Foster's commentary critique of the women's marathon support facilities (drinks stations and cool-spray showers) being the prime and very accurate example based on his 35-years high-up the command-chain of the Great North Run. |
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i refer the honourable gentlemen to the response i gave some moments earlier
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I've just also watched on youtube the men's keirin final from London 2012 won by Chris Hoy ... the derny-rider in that race (as usual) begins peeling off the track about 1-&-a-half seconds before the back-straight pursuit-timing-stripe instead of tonight's derny-rider seeming determined to use that timing-stripe as his peel-off marker.
Hence tonight's German rider picked utterly the wrong time to go for a back-marker charge through the field the moment the racing was open because he was plotting to be able to make that charge at least 20-metres before tonight's derny-rider intended to peel out !! |
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meme alert
puerto rico national anthem www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkQf3TkWYpg |
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Caster Semenya starts today
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37102204 "In April she won the 400m, 800m and 1500m at the South African Olympic trials in the same afternoon" |
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That turkey guy i need to win the 400m hurdles has drifted alarmingly,looks like he will let me down for my acca
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DFMS..dude, think you're getting Mother Teresa and a certain Manxman mixed up
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A_T 17 Aug 16 08:20
Caster Semenya starts today http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37102204 "In April she won the 400m, 800m and 1500m at the South African Olympic trials in the same afternoon" Laugh then 'she' went and did the same in the Womens' |
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Poor show again from the Brazilian crowd last night. Booing the French silver medallist pole vaulter at the medal ceremony after they had previously booed him during the tournament because he was up against their man. I guess they know no better as this is a norm at football.
Apart from Bolt's race, has the athletics stadium been full at all yet? |