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Welcome to the World Championship forum!

The French will certainly be flying high. The Brits and Australia should make this a great event, leading up to the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

Add your thoughts and remember once the racing starts there will be results (spoilers) if you haven't been watching the action.
 
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USA Team

A brief look at team USA. I think the USA team is the largest since 2005 championships in LA.

http://www.usacycling.org/track/

Men?s roster
Matt Baranoski (Perkasie, Pa./Custom Velo): keirin*
Jacob Duehring (Irvine, Calif./GS Ciao): omnium
Bobby Lea (Mertztown, Pa./Custom Velo): individual pursuit*; scratch race
Nick Rogers (Philadelphia, Pa./QCW Breakawaybikes.com p/b Felt Bicycles-JLVelo): points race

Women?s roster
Missy Erickson (Alexandria, Minn./Momentum Coaching Group p/b Atomic-Momentum Coaching Group): keirin*; sprint
Kim Geist (Emmaus, Pa./Chester County Cycling Foundation-Team Alliance Environmental): points race; scratch race
Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif./TWENTY16 p/b SHO-AIR): omnium*; individual pursuit*; team pursuit
Carmen Small (Durango, Colo./Team TWENTY16 p/b SHO-AIR): team pursuit
Lauren Tamayo (Asheville, N.C./ UCI PCT/WPT: UnitedHealthcare): team pursuit
Jennifer Valente (San Diego, Calif./TWENTY16 p/b SHO-AIR): team pursuit
Ruth Winder (Lafayette, Calif./UCI PCT/WPT: UnitedHealthcare): team pursuit

Bobby Lea skipping the Omnium is surprising. His pursuit form has been fast. Without the omnium tiredness, he can certainly medal.

Sarah Hammer has a lot on her plate, maybe too much racing before the omnium.
 
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As always in the Men's speed events, much depends
on the the injuries the riders have recently sustained.
Pervis crashed in Cali (17 Jan) and Glaetzer crashed
at the Nationals (31 Jan) two days after recording an
Aussie All-Comers record of 9.826. Probably others
that have polished the pine recently as well.

Also interested to see if racing both sprint and keirin
at all three World Cups (and winning the overall jersey
in both events) has taken too much out of Puerta. He
certainly has gained valuable experience for 2016 even
if he doesn't equal or better his Keirin silver from 2014
at this years Championships.
 
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It's great that everyone will have a rear-facing
camera on their bike at the Worlds this year.
It was forward facing helmet cams, though, that
were so well received during the BMX and the
Downhill Championship coverage. Ms. Pajon's
BMX helmet cam (with sound) captured the
excitement and thrills of her race as well as the
immediate aftermath and Ratboy's Downhill helmet
cam captured his quick glance down when he
broke his ankle within sight of the finish line.

I think the TV coverage of the team pursuits and
team sprints will be truly amazing with the on-bike
cameras and may help create a new generation
of track cyclists and track cycling fans.
 
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I think the cameras are a complete waste of time. They are too jumpy and have low resolution. The 'teaser' they released looks terrible. It serves no real purpose.
 
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TShame said:
Bobby Lea (Mertztown, Pa./Custom Velo): individual pursuit*;
Bobby Lea skipping the Omnium is surprising. His pursuit form has been fast. Without the omnium tiredness, he can certainly medal.
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I think he could win. The Brits and Aussies too focused on the TP. so they will gave their best riders doing TP training for the 3'54" times, difficult to juggle doing an IP with that. Clancy is one cat who could do it if they asked him to, but he wont. Maybe Steven Burke or Peter Kennaugh could juggle it. Bobridge is back focusing on the track, so thow him in the mix too.
 
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oldcrank said:
It's great that everyone will have a rear-facing
camera on their bike at the Worlds this year.
It was forward facing helmet cams, though, that
were so well received during the BMX and the
Downhill Championship coverage. Ms. Pajon's
BMX helmet cam (with sound) captured the
excitement and thrills of her race as well as the
immediate aftermath and Ratboy's Downhill helmet
cam captured his quick glance down when he
broke his ankle within sight of the finish line.

I think the TV coverage of the team pursuits and
team sprints will be truly amazing with the on-bike
cameras and may help create a new generation
of track cyclists and track cycling fans.
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like the shimano or sram camera that Giant-Alpecin's John Degenkolb had in a sprint with his leadout train.
 
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What do you make of the omnium? Gaviria is the big favourite for me, maybe Viviani can Challenge him. Will also look closely at Casper Pedersen from Denmark, he is a great talent.
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Yes, I think Gaviria is a proven winner
and one of the favourites in a pretty
good field.

I think either Law or O'Shea (AUS),
Beyer or Liss (GER), Suter or Beer
(SUI), De Buyst (BEL), Boudat (FRA),
Veldt (NED), or Gate (NZL) could
challenge those you named for a
spot on the podium. It is very tough
to pick a favourite, but Gaviria has
shown he is excellent in the timed
events and savvy in the bunch races
as well, so that makes him a most
formidable opponent.
 
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oldcrank said:
Yes, I think Gaviria is a proven winner
and one of the favourites in a pretty
good field.

I think either Law or O'Shea (AUS),
Beyer or Liss (GER), Suter or Beer
(SUI), De Buyst (BEL), Boudat (FRA),
Veldt (NED), or Gate (NZL) could
challenge those you named for a
spot on the podium. It is very tough
to pick a favourite, but Gaviria has
shown he is excellent in the timed
events and savvy in the bunch races
as well, so that makes him a most
formidable opponent.
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Gate, he is not the flying mullet, who is the flying mullet. Archbold is the mullet
 
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oldcrank said:
Yes, I think Gaviria is a proven winner
and one of the favourites in a pretty
good field.

I think either Law or O'Shea (AUS),
Beyer or Liss (GER), Suter or Beer
(SUI), De Buyst (BEL), Boudat (FRA),
Veldt (NED), or Gate (NZL) could
challenge those you named for a
spot on the podium. It is very tough
to pick a favourite, but Gaviria has
shown he is excellent in the timed
events and savvy in the bunch races
as well, so that makes him a most
formidable opponent.
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but if OShea is doing team pursuit training, like Clancy, it will sap his preparation and legs. I think like Clancy OShea has less facility in mass start events
 
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First session news:

Women's pursuit:

The Aussies qualified 2/10ths ahead of Great Britain at 4:18. They will face New Zealand at 4:25.

Canada with a 4:20 will go up against the Brits.

Looks like Aussies and Britain may clash in the gold medal finals if they can keep there times as fast.
 
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Opening lap breakage/puncture and crash for
Aussie men. First 2000 excellent in restart, but
ragged finish to end up in 5th...so the best
they can do is a bronze, no matter how fast
they go in the next round. NZL qualified first
3:56.421, GBR next 3:57.716, then GER, SUI,
AUS, NED, RUS, FRA 4:00.783.
 
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Men's Pursuit:

New Zealand at 3:56 and in 4th Switzerland 3:58.88

Great Britain at 3:57 against Germany at 3:58.86

Aussies in 5th at 3:58.9

I made a mistake above:
The winners of the top 4 teams do fight for silver and bronze.
However, the remaining six teams go by fastest times to fight for bronze.
So, Aussies could get into the bronze.
It will be a tight bronze race!
 
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Men's Team Sprint

nzrelegated.bmp


New Zealand had a great time in the gold medal final against France, under 43 seconds. Then, the sad news...relegation. This picture was shown. The second rider went over the red line. I couldn't tell if that was the main problem or if his front wheel went past the first rider's rear wheel. Devastation for the men in black.

Men's team sprint
1. France
2. New Zealand
3. Germany
 
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nzrelegated.bmp


New Zealand had a great time in the gold medal final against France, under 43 seconds. Then, the sad news...relegation. This picture was shown. The second rider went over the red line. I couldn't tell if that was the main problem or if his front wheel went past the first rider's rear wheel. Devastation for the men in black.

Men's team sprint
1. France
2. New Zealand
3. Germany
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Yes, it was an early change (but after the above photograph).
 
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Day 2 Morning Session

In the team pursuit:

Men

Bronze between Australia (3:55) and Germany (3:57.1)

Gold/Silver between Great Britain (3:55.2) and New Zealand (3:56)


Women

Bronze between Canada(4:17.8) and New Zealand (4:22.9)

Gold/Silver between Great Britain (4:16.9) and Australia (4:17.4)

Should be two great finals!
 
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