2016 Track World Championships
 

The World Championships start next week in London.

World Championships during an Olympic year are always interesting. We get to see who the countries will likely send to the Olympics and we also may get to see some new equipment as well.

Post anything you folks may find on the upcoming event or chat in general.

I'm curious to see what the US squad does as well as Cav.

EDIT:

Results can be found here.

I was just watching the national team on the track this morning getting ready (canadian). Men team pursuit are going, first time in probably 10+ years that we qualified. Hugo is going, and the 2 women sprinters, and of course the women's endurance who hopefully can medal.

Really interested to see how the US women do with the 'big guns' out. I don't think they will medal but that team has come a long way still. Of course Hammer in the omnium is always one to watch.


Men's Keirin will be another good race, a lot of crazy fast guys there.

I think our local girl, Chloe Dygart, got named to the women's TP squad - they'll be faster than people expect I think. It'll be fun to see who is "slow" as that may tell us as much about Rio as who is going fast.

Should point out this is also the 'retirement year' for a lot of racers. A lot of guys in that age range where 4 years out is too much, you either are going to Rio (and subsequently worlds) or you are done. Already know of a couple in their mid/late 20s that retired as soon as they didn't qualify for this year. Of course if you are only 20 or 22 then next olympic cycle is still an option.

Still interesting to see the careers of riders and how they are influenced by olympic cycles. The commitment to race 2020 games started already.

Good point. I forgot about that.

Long time greats Pendleton, Hoy, Jennie Reed, etc... all retired after the last Olympics.

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TC

We'll be there Thursday afternoon and evening, should be fun.

Hi, Poppit, and welcome to the forum!

Thanks, I'll have to post some links to our velodrome, or you can just put Derby velodrome in YouTube and you can see for yourself. Comes in useful at the moment, it's freezing here!

Does anyone know of a livestream in the US of the WC?

Bumping this important question. Actually, anyone know of a way to watch livestreamed WC racing in any way?

Carriers in each. Most will not be live if I had to guess
http://www.uci.ch/mm/Document/News/N...rs_Neutral.pdf

or youtube, although its probably blocked for most (blocked in Canada and my US vpn so far)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M44udYjgrAI

"sweet, we live in a connected world where we can watch something live on the other side of the world!"
"wait sorry X company owns the rights in your country and can't without paying them for it"

Last year BBC was streaming it... If they thought you were in the UK. Inrng.com how to watch a bike race has some useful suggestions.

Looks like sportsnet1 in Canada will be playing it.

....at 2-5am each night...

Can vs US in women's IP tonight for bronze!

http://www.tissottiming.com/File/Download?id=00030D0001021363FFFFFFFFFFFFFF02



Also, UK with a 17.0 first lap... yikes!
http://www.tissottiming.com/File/Dow...FFFFFFFFFFFF02

Universal HD -- 9 - 10 PM and 2 to 3 AM ET.

See schedule here for USA (and other countries): http://www.uci.ch/mm/Document/News/N...le_Neutral.pdf

Results live here: http://www.tissottiming.com/Competit...t=CT&year=2016

very interesting to see Ruth Winder get that qualification - and not Valente or Catlin as seemed more likely.

EDIT: oh. those two weren't racing the IP. thought they were...

I VPN'd into the UK and purchased Eurosport for a month. Around $10. Impressed with Eurosport so far, but I loathe paying for the boob tube. Good track coverage.

Hmm, just $10? If Carlton Kirby is commentating, that's not bad. I can't stand Anthony McCrossan. Kirby also gets points for his name ;)

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or use the Tunnelbear browser plugin to access the livestream of youtube.com/ucichannel through a proxy server.

Hmm, can you do on demand with the eurosport? It would totally be worth it for watching road races. And completely assuage any guilt I may feel.

US women set a new nat'l TP record in qualifying! 4:16.180 ... zoom!

Crazy! Beat Canada by several seconds!!

I'm following live on Tissot Live Timing

Just timing updates, but pretty exciting nonetheless. Looks like Becky James didn't make her initial qualifier in Keirin. . .

Up right now is the Men's Kilo. Woo!

TC

Whoa.

1st and 2nd place are separated by 4.48 seconds.

2nd through 5th places are separated by 0.39 seconds.

Holy Sh*t. That's huge.

Bos is Back! Silver in the Kilo at Worlds.

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