Paris Olympics 2024, Women's Track Cycling Team Pursuit: Split Times

The British quartet of Elinor Barker, Josie Knight, Anna Morris, and Jessica Roberts got off to a bit of a slower start in their Bronze Medal race against Team Italia.  They did manage to keep building up (or Italy began to waiver) as the laps progressed.  You can just see the British coach giving them their split times as they fly past at roughly forty miles an hour.  Bear in mind that they are riding a single speed fixed gear bike with a huge gear ration.  They did come back to take the Bronze medal continuing their streak of medaling in every Olympic game in this event since its introduction into the Summer Olympics.  Sadly, despite their great start, Italy will continue to be the bridesmaid and never the bride in this track cycling contest.  The country only has two medals in track cycling total.  I guess they will leave their prowess to road cycling.

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"Split Times PO24-75" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Paris Olympics 2024, Women's Track Cycling Team Pursuit: Looking Smooth

The women of Team USA were looking really smooth, and really fast in the Team Pursuit Gold Medal Race.  The quartet of Chloe Dygert on the front followed by the road cycling Gold Medalist, Kristen Faulkner and in turn by Lily Williams - just swinging off with her job done is Jennifer Valente - were up against the powerful New Zealand team.  Both Dygert and Faulkner have already competed in the road cycling, in fact Dygert has already done the time trial as well.  They were so smooth and fast that they claimed the win for the Gold Medal in Team Pursuit.  That does mean that Faulkner now has two Olympic Gold Medals, and Dygert has the medal that crashes prevented her from winning last week.  Their Gold is part of why the USA now has the most total Olympic Medals and the most Gold Medals in these games.  It makes you wonder what the next games in the United States will look like in the medal count.

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"Looking Smooth PO24-74" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Beijing 2022: In Pursuit

The cyclist in me loves the speed skating events.  I raced bikes way back in the 70s and speed skating was considered the best winter training regiment for cyclists.  Conversely, cycling was felt to be the best summer training until the invention of inline skating.  The similarities are so strong that this Canadian Women's team is doing the team pursuit an event that can be found in track cycling too.  The Canadians did well in their qualifing race moving themselves into second overall thus emsuring that they would be able to compete for a medal on Monday.

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Rio Olympics: Setting the Pace

Team Canada had made it through to the Bronze Medal round of the Women's Team Pursuit.  The quartet had managed to gain an early lead.  As they racked up the laps, they eventually dropped their fourth just as New Zealand did the same.  Since the time is taken on the third woman to cross the line, the fourth rider will do extra long pulls on the front until she can no longer sustain the pace.  She'll swing off and finish her laps at her own pace, avoiding impeding the progress of either team.

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