[markhr]

I'm only really interested in the team sprint, match sprint, km and keirin. The other stuff is interesting but doesn't hold the same attraction as the power events.

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[bonechilling]

Probably on fixedgearfever.com. This places averages about a post a day.

[markhr]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/track/2008/mar08/wtc08/?id=default

team sprint

men's - well the gb final start was a bit ragged, surely the missing 0.51s? Well done France though, looking at the qualifying times for the match sprint the french sprinters are on some serious form now.
ladies - another ragged start, possibly due to the gate not beeping a fifth time, but Pendleton kicked ass again.

Match sprint

men's - Grats. to Hoy for coming back from 0-1 and kicking ass, it was a very close thing though second match. I didn't realise that was the quarter finals already - damn highlights.

ladies - haven't seen anything on TV yet but I'm only watching the highlights

500m

Ladies - GB what's with the small gearing. Getting a good start is nice but what's the point if you're spinning out well before the final lap. They'd still kick my ass from a standing start though :D

edit: another mistake, after hoy isn't mclean, the quarter finals aren't the heats - double DOH!

[bonechilling]

Bos lost for the first time in THREE YEARS. I really thought he was invincible, but I guess you can catch him off guard if you're Chris Hoy. It should be really interesting watching them battle in Beijing.

[markhr]

Yup - the second heat was amazing when it went to the photo finish. Was it just me or did, in the third heat, Bos seem to fade a bit?

[AlexTaylor]

Daily summary found, er, daily, here:

http://www.worldtrackcycling.com/Daily_Summary.php

[markhr]

HOY! What a sprint. After watching the quarters the french guy, sireau, looked FAST.....but not fast enough. the 3/4 final was interesting but chiappa needed something more than just trying to match speed.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00309/Chris_Hoy__309876h.jpg


Pendleton looking on form for the win (damn, now I've jinxed it)

[markhr]

HOY! and pendleton for the keirin and match sprint respectively. Fianlly managed to watch it on the bbc iplayer service (woohoo! first time I've achieved a 780kbps download speed).

http://www.cyclingnews.com/track/2008/mar08/wtc08/?id=results/wtc084

Congratulations Reed and Mulder in the kkeirin and km respectively. It would've been nice to have two more brits at the top but onward to beijing.......unless there's a boycott because they're ethnically cleansing tibet :mad:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/track/2008/mar08/wtc08/?id=results/wtc085