Cycling

[JimStynes]

Cavendish just wiped the gold medal leader out!

[bennydorano]

Going the old fashioned route to victory, take your opponents out by the root!

[laoislad]

This omnium is some race! Haven't a clue what's going on!

Do those bikes have gears?

[bennydorano]

One huge gear

[JimStynes]

Trott is some cyclist!

[laoislad]

That sprint elimination is great craic.

[JimStynes]

Trott cruised it. You could easily get caught out in that race and find yourself eliminated.

[muppet]

http://www.goalsdaddy.com/rio/mark-cavendish-causes-a-horror-crash-in-the-velodrome-rio-2016/

How is he not disqualified? At best he was very careless, at worst........?

[imtommygunn]

To be fair to him I think he was just stupid rather than malicious... (if that was malicious then it would be really bad as he really hurt the korean? guy quite badly?)

so you got points for sprint, what else?

you seemed to get 10 points for lapping everyone else and cavendish mentioned an elimination where he could have won it on? what is the elimination?

[Declan]

Another marginal gain for the GB cyclists
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2016/aug/15/team-gb-cycling-saddle-sore-medals?CMP=share_btn_tw

[LeoMc]

To be fair to him I think he was just stupid rather than malicious... (if that was malicious then it would be really bad as he really hurt the korean? guy quite badly?)

so you got points for sprint, what else?

you seemed to get 10 points for lapping everyone else and cavendish mentioned an elimination where he could have won it on? what is the elimination?

It is an earlier race in the competition where a rider is eliminated every other lap. Whoever is at the back going over the line gets eliminated until there is only 1.
From what I saw it is a series of sprints where the cyclist caught on the insde got squeezed out.

[imtommygunn]

Ah, cheers. Wasn't sure what he was talking about when he said that. Mad event but entertaining.

[JimStynes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJsPAIhuVls
Cavendish is ruthless. Complete legend though. Cavendish is maybe the best British cyclist ever??? Wiggins has done more overall though when you take into his olympic career.

[yellowcard]

Dirty act by Cavendish, he knew full well what he was doing looking back twice beforehand and has history for causing crashes. Should have been DQ'd imo, he left the Korean guy in hospital. Then threatened to sue a Dutch journalist afterwards for asking him if he should have been DQ'd. An arrogant man.

[Declan]

[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/16/australian-cyclist-anna-meares-raises-questions-over-team-gbs-tr/


Australian, French and German cyclists raise questions over Team GB's track success