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DCU director Jesper Worre opinion on sprint

Dec 17, 2010
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The Director of the DCU Jesper Worre says in this article.
http://www.feltet.dk/nyheder/dcu_satser_ikke_paa_banesprint_til_ol/

DCU rates are not on track printing OL09.10.2012 pm. 16:56 by Philip Tarning-Andersen.
Although sprint disciplines fills much of the Olympic program for track cycling, then the Danish Cycling Union, DCU, do not bet on them towards the Olympics in Rio in four years.
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Currently DCU in the process of evaluating what they want to bet on up to the Olympics in four years in Rio de Janeiro. This plan will soon be presented to Team Denmark.


In track cycling, there are currently ten disciplines at the Olympics program, where sprint, Keirin and team sheet for both sexes characterized as sprint disciplines. These six disciplines will the Danish authorities do not bet on the next Olympic Games. DCU believes that it is too difficult to find some qualified candidates.



"It's like finding a needle in a haystack, because you must find someone who will here. The method is virtually impossible, because we do not live in the eastern states, where the dots one on the shoulder and says: You should play volleyball champion, and from now on, you stay there and there and there is a doctor and syringes in you a once in a while. We do not live in such a system, "says DCU's director Jesper Worre, the news agency Ritzau according tv2.dk.



A significant part of the reason lies in that to be sprinter on the track is very different from being a sprinter on the road. Required much greater muscle mass in the legs to do in track print disciplines internationally, making it difficult to combine with running a different kind of cycling alongside.



Riders who focuses on the four other Olympic disciplines, endurance disciplines - Team Pursuit and omnium for both sexes - can easily combine it with a career on the road beside it. In the men were Denmark in the Olympics in both of these disciplines, where we in Team Pursuit was number five, while Lasse Norman as we know, won gold in the omnium.



There have been talked about that the next Olympics will add an extra discipline for each sex, and that it becomes an endurance discipline. Worre hope that this happens and that it is either points race or partnership, which also will be a good chance for a Danish medal.

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