Track World Cup 2009-10 - Melbourne (19/20/21 Nov)

[Skip Madness]

Track World Cup 2009-10 (Cali 10/11/12 Dec - check latest)

After the dominance of the Brits on home turf at Manchester, the World Cup is down under this Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The events schedule is as follows:

Thursday 19 November
Men's points race
Women's individual pursuit
Women's scratch
Men's team sprint
Men's individual pursuit
Women's sprint

Friday 20 November
Men's 1km time trial
Women's points race
Women's team sprint
Men's team pursuit
Men's keirin
Men's scratch

Saturday 21 November
Men's madison
Women's 500m time trial
Women's team pursuit
Women's keirin
Men's sprint

The British team have sent Matt Crampton, David Daniell, Ross Edgar and Jess Varnish for the sprint events, and Steven Burke, Ed Clancy, Andy Fenn, Chris Newton, Andy Tennant, Katie Colclough, Wendy Houvenaghel and Jo Rowsell for the endurance events.

There will be coverage on British Eurosport and Eurosport 2 (but not on BBC Red Button), but how extensive is unclear.

EDIT: it seems my Virgin box had it right:

Sat 21 Nov 0745-0845: Track Cycling, Manchester (British Eurosport 2)
Sat 21 Nov 0845-1115: Live Track Cycling, Melbourne (British Eurosport 2) (confirmed)
Sat 21 Nov 1815-1945: Track Cycling, Melbourne (British Eurosport)
Sun 22 Nov 1500-1630: Track Cycling, Manchester (British Eurosport)

So are we going to get a load of repeats of Manchester and only a bit of Melbourne? Well, the fact that my Virgin box is advertising live coverage from Manchester on the Friday leads me to believe that the "Manchester" has probably been put in by mistake. Hopefully we'll get plenty of stuff from Australia. But who knows yet.

Anyway, it starts tomorrow, and slated to ride in the events are:

Men's points race - Chris Newton
Women's individual pursuit - Wendy Houvenaghel
Women's sprint - Jess Varnish

 

[rich p]

I'm guessing that you're right and some numpty has written Manc for Melb.

Thanks for that.

 

[Skip Madness]

Just a quickie, but British Eurosport's website is listing the only live broadcast as the Saturday morning 0845-1115 showing on British Eurosport 2, which makes sense since that will be in the evening in Melbourne time. Any others will be highlights or "as live".

 

[Skip Madness]

Edit: Both today's (Thursday) afternoon and evening broadcasts are highlights from Manchester. Hopefully we'll get something tomorrow, but we may have to wait until Saturday.

 

[Skip Madness]

Today's first-night results are here (behind the link in case anyone wants to avoid spoilers).

The Brits in tomorrow's events are:

Men's 1km time trial - David Daniell
Men's team pursuit - Steven Burke, Ed Clancy, Andy Fenn, Andy Tennant
Men's keirin - Matt Crampton
Men's scratch - Chris Newton

 

[Dave5N]

Good to see Tennant in there. And Jess, of course.

 

[Skip Madness]

Tonight's results are here.

 

[Skip Madness]

The Brits in tomorrow's events are:

Men's madison - Steven Burke and Andy Fenn
Women's 500m time trial - Jess Varnish
Women's team pursuit - Katie Colclough, Wendy Houvenaghel and Jo Rowsell
Women's keirin - Jess Varnish
Men's sprint - Matt Crampton, David Daniell, Ross Edgar

 

[Dave5N]

Very pro-aussie all that. Great results really from Team GB given they are trying new formations.

Kilo times? 1.02 is pretty quick but it won't win you a big medal.

 

[Dave5N]

Go Jess!

 

[Skip Madness]

SPOLIERS *** SPOILERS *** SPOLIERS *** SPOILERS

That was an excellent ride by Varnish to make the keirin final.

Considering that the only change to Britain's world-record breaking team pursuit trio was Colclough in for Armitstead they were a little on the sluggish side by comparison, although allowing for jet lag it was still a very good ride against a well-drilled kiwi outfit.

Anna Meares was awesome. Three golds in the individual sprint events and bronze in the team sprint.

SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS *** SPOILERS

 

[Skip Madness]

wats the point of a spoiler on an individual post, its supposed to be in the title = idiot

I spoilered the individual post so that people can read the rest of the thread and ignore that post if they want. If I had put "SPOILER" in the thread title then people who wanted to know about the TV scheduling etc. may have been put off from looking in here to find out.

Apology accepted.

 

[rich p]

wats the point of a spoiler on an individual post, its supposed to be in the title = idiot

The astute amongst you may notice that **SPOILER** is in big letters and Skip has written the detail in a deliberately small font whereby ensuring that if anyone is reading it, they will see spoiler first and therefore dip out if they don't want to know the result.

There's also no need for the personal abuse either.

 

[claver58]

I thought the atmosphere in Melbourne was poor - not a patch on M'cester.
We would have been cheering them on especially in the team sprint and the team pursuit.

 

[Dave5N]

That's OKay Skip - I saw the warning and acted accordingly. Well played.