Recent content by Frans Rutten

YES. Apart from La Paz, with very good weather conditions, now the new 250m indoor track in Aguascalientes, moderate high altitude, is the fastest track in the world. Sarah Hammer did a 1000m sprint !!!!! (compared to sea-level conditions) during the middle of her 3K World Record. Even as a very...

You don't think, the sprinters are resting "between the wheels"? Compare this: 1km within the peloton and sprinting for the last 100-150m or so and 1km on your own and sprinting for the last 100m-150m or so. Any idea how much the sprinter would lose in his sprint, let alone in...

I can't answer your question specifically about Milan-San Remo. In general there's a lot of mystery around finishing top speeds in road racing. From Cipollini and in particularly of Petacchi is said that they occasionally reached a top speed of 74km/h. I've never heard any reliable figure of...

Why unfortunately? There's no law biding me to believe unconditionally in outstanding performances or rather most of the time in the manner in which they are brought to practice. In the 1980's we "had to believe" in almost a collective manner. At hindsight we know that 90 to 100% of all the...

GB (Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny) and FRANCE (Kévin Sireau and Mickaël Bourgain) again clashed last Saturday at the 3rd leg of the Fenioux France Trophy on the Vélodrome Toulon Provence Mediterranee (Hyères, an outdoor rink, 333m, partly covered). Chris Hoy did 10,130s before Jason Kenny with...

Well, not only cyclingnews is responding, evidently. Hardly any website. It's the worst communication concerning an importing track cycling event for a long time. Even the official website doesn't give any results or a link and the European Cycling Organization, http://www.uec.ch, just gives a...

I suggest you visit the official website http://www.letour.fr, where you can find all the details about time and route. I don't know in which order Lance Armstrong will start at the Time Trial, Saturday. But ultimately Saturday the order in which everyone parts and the parting times will be...

Thanks for the link. I've found out, that Grégory Bauge also had an extra ride with 9,622s and was almost as fast as Kévin Sireau. But I don't agree with a significant part of your statement: Krylatskoje Velodrome is traditional a fast track due to it being 333m instead of the normal...

Normally I wouldn’t post this, but since it seems so bizarre to me and I think still relevant to this subject, I’ll give it a try. Yesterday Kévin Sireau lost during his GP St. Denis 200m race the virtual competition with his recent 200m WR race of 9,572s with a stunning difference of almost...

The 9,572s is an out of competition result and there are no further details in the official report of the GP of Moscow, now available on http://www.fvsr.ru Friday, Kevin Sireau won the 200m qualification in 4,775s + 4,875s = 9,650s. Average speed of the first 100m exceeds the omninous 75km/h...

According http://www.nos.nl. Kevin Sireau already broke his 200m world record with 9,572s. Just two months ago he qualified during the world's 3rd with 10,001s. This means a colossal difference of 8,75m. Even with the advantage of the steep Krylatskoje velodrome in mind this is hardly to...

:) The time of 9,950s isn't of cause the new world record, but 9,650s it is. Also for 2nd place it is 9,654s rather than 9,954s. Apparantly 3rd place is occupied by Manthias Stumpf GER with 9,921s, which is 0,626s slower or rather 13 meters :confused: than his winning time of 10,547s only a...