tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4686770325584114727.post917225850121486484..comments2010-01-04T17:26:43.933-06:00Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03277149094600096541noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4686770325584114727.post-76302668039835887842010-01-04T17:26:43.933-06:002010-01-04T17:26:43.933-06:00why havent i seen more camera on rails kinda setups for track racing? Build it into the wall and have a pacing shot of the leader with the pack behind! HOT!<br /><br />They have cameras floating in every shot of pro football. If they want to make endurance track racing more interesting give the audience a couple more angles.<br /><br />What will they do when the genders are totally balanced, and men still make 30% more? (thats just an overall average in the sports world the differences in $ are probably measured in magnitudes). Im glad they are trying something but this seems like putting a bandaid on a zombie.<br /><br />anyway, thanks for the coverage.revphilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07124103999671721861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4686770325584114727.post-74619020627690236412009-12-18T13:10:03.574-06:002009-12-18T13:10:03.574-06:00its the multiple weight catogories for shit like taiquando that I think sucks. <br /><br />cycling doesn&#39;t need the oylmpics, should try and get the world champs more exposuremarypoppinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06767916329875266731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4686770325584114727.post-1072160233179801272009-12-16T15:03:02.381-06:002009-12-16T15:03:02.381-06:00Sorry about leaving that spam comment about politics up there for so long! It&#39;s been deleted now, but that makes Anon&#39;s WTF comment look like it&#39;s directed at Val, which it isn&#39;t.Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10753590650671064496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4686770325584114727.post-60802613452246296912009-12-14T10:15:13.981-06:002009-12-14T10:15:13.981-06:00I&#39;m from Spain and I&#39;m a great fan of Joan Llaneras. He is now retired from cycling, but he is one of the best spanish athletes in Olympic Games.<br /><br />Cheers from un saludo desde <a href="http://www.futbolmanu.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">my blog</a>Manuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11176912459734301641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4686770325584114727.post-60079226887460748232009-12-13T22:29:49.869-06:002009-12-13T22:29:49.869-06:00WTF are you on about?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4686770325584114727.post-33990918328921671082009-12-12T09:07:53.730-06:002009-12-12T09:07:53.730-06:00The Omnium is a legitimate event in it&#39;s own right but telling endurance racers to console themselves with the scratch, points and pursuit in the omnium is silly. None of those events are stand alone events. AND they&#39;re all significantly shorter. I&#39;m sure you&#39;ve raced multiple events in a row, with only 30 minutes break in between - it&#39;s the typical format for weekly races and velodrome challenges. Having multiple events per day is completely different than having one event per day. Your warm-up changes as does your strategy. A 10K points race is completely different than a 25K points (for the women). <br /><br />Taking away the stand alone endurance events and Madison will also probably affect who races the Olympics, there may not get the road/track cross over that we have seen in the past.<br /><br />On the bright side, at least now the women have the keirin.Valhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17104327513898801189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4686770325584114727.post-44773939081416821392009-12-11T08:07:55.838-06:002009-12-11T08:07:55.838-06:00Hold on, though. They didn&#39;t ditch those events - they just crammed &#39;em into an omnium. <br /><br />And I haven&#39;t really read anything from anybody about what&#39;s so damn bad about an omnium. <br /><br />I don&#39;t think that the UCI ought to try and make rules to shove cycling back toward the good-old-days stuff, but I do like the notion of an omnium. More dynamic and less specialized, it will be unpredictable and require a lot of different skills.noonelinehttp://nooneline.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4686770325584114727.post-79222866006941578912009-12-11T05:59:12.519-06:002009-12-11T05:59:12.519-06:00I agree, it&#39;s sad the IOC has the cut sports in order to package it up nice and nearly in three weeks to sell it to television. Why not go four weeks? I mean it only happens every four years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4686770325584114727.post-62989730682128062062009-12-10T22:17:29.729-06:002009-12-10T22:17:29.729-06:00No hate, just a little joke!<br /><br />I&#39;m living in Fiji right now so I know a good bit about 7s, and while I agree that it&#39;s more popular than I made out, there&#39;s still no way it has the following that track cycling does. Both are minority sports, but c&#39;mon, the crowds at even the IRB World 7s Series games are always <i>tiny.</i><br /><br />Either way, I&#39;m sure we could both agree on a sport that shouldn&#39;t be at the Olympics in place of 7s, or the Madison. But, that&#39;s the point really, isn&#39;t it? There are always going to be people who want to see their particular sport represented, and unless the IOC decide to turn the Olympics into a 6 week event, someone has to lose out. It&#39;s just a pity that track cycling got screwed...Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10753590650671064496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4686770325584114727.post-82263148091473081142009-12-10T20:15:39.276-06:002009-12-10T20:15:39.276-06:00I love track racing and am sad that this is happening bit I also played rugby and live watching it. 7s is huge, probably bigger that track cycling. Need to hate on other sports bro.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com