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It'll be this track no doubt:
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[cite]Chris Hoy:[/cite]
In Rotterdam we've been getting 10,000 spectators a night and the atmosphere is incredible. I see no reason why people wouldn't come out to support a London Six, especially when you consider that Britain now has arguably the world's strongest track cycling team.Sadly I fear this logic may be slightly flawed!
we'll go though, so there might be 30-40 people there
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RPM [quote][cite]Chris Hoy:[/cite]
In Rotterdam we've been getting 10,000 spectators a night and the atmosphere is incredible. I see no reason why people wouldn't come out to support a London Six, especially when you consider that Britain now has arguably the world's strongest track cycling team.Sadly I fear this logic may be slightly flawed!
we'll go though, so there might be 30-40 people there[/quote]hehe who cares as long as we all get front row seats! mm now if there was a bar there i wouldnt go home! ...mm2 imaging if they allowed an afterhours drunk FGSS race!
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hael [quote]RPM [quote][cite]Chris Hoy:[/cite]
In Rotterdam we've been getting 10,000 spectators a night and the atmosphere is incredible. I see no reason why people wouldn't come out to support a London Six, especially when you consider that Britain now has arguably the world's strongest track cycling team.Sadly I fear this logic may be slightly flawed!
we'll go though, so there might be 30-40 people there[/quote]hehe who cares as long as we all get front row seats! mm now if there was a bar there i wouldnt go home! ...mm2 imaging if they allowed an afterhours drunk FGSS race![/quote]
Bar, of course, heavy drinking is the essence of 6 day racing
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winston That's right, hardly anyone went to watch the last major cycling event in London....the prologue, I think it was called.
wrong winston the last event was the Tour of Britaitn Prologue, which was very empty and lacked the support of the Tour de France's Prologue, It just depends how much hype they give it. Even if you were blind and deaf you would still have found out about the Tour de France coming to London.
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Jos 4000 spectators is not a lot though. In a 6 days like the one in Berlin, Zurich, Bremen there are places for 10.000 people.
But whatever happened to alexandra palace ? Didn't they used to organise it there.
The video of the skol six was held at Empire Pool Wembley.
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flickwg couldn't they just hold it in Manchester if they wanted a velodrome?
Most permanent velodromes don't have the spectator capacity for the big Sixes
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al@creative [quote]Jos 4000 spectators is not a lot though. In a 6 days like the one in Berlin, Zurich, Bremen there are places for 10.000 people.
But whatever happened to alexandra palace ? Didn't they used to organise it there.
The video of the skol six was held at Empire Pool Wembley.[/quote]
oh yeah. shows you I still haven't scored a VHS player.....dammit
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winston It'll be this track no doubt:
Bollocks to that: I want the Human-powered Rollercoaster
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mr_tom [quote]winston It'll be this track no doubt:
Bollocks to that: I want the Human-powered Rollercoaster[/quote]HA! i want the human-powered rollercoaster too!
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London Six Day
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Six Day racing to London?
The International Six Day Organisation has confirmed it plans to hold a Six Day track event in London next September, to be staged in a temporary velodrome in Greenwich, according to The Guardian. The velodrome would sit inside a giant tent near the O2 Arena - previously the Millennium Dome.
"We have been presenting to organisations in London," said director Frank Boelé, whose organisation also runs the Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Maastricht Six Days. "There isn't a suitable venue so we proposed a semi-permanent one next to the O2 Arena. It would hold 4,000 spectators and it would be in place for a month, allowing for community and youth cycling events as well as the main six-day race."
Final authorisation for the event depends on agreement from Greenwich council, but Boelé was confident of receiving the council's backing. "With the countdown to the London Olympics starting after Beijing, every district in London is very keen to have Olympic sports," he said.
"Greenwich is keen, [the tourist board] Visit London is keen, now we are just waiting on these parties to give the formal go-ahead. Once we have that, and know the infrastructure can be in place, we can secure sponsorship. We are already talking to some serious sponsors about it."
Six Day racing is believed to have begun in London in 1878 and would surely be popular again given Great Britain's position as a dominant force in track cycling. "In 1996 when England hosted the European Championship, they said football was coming home. I say that if we can stage a London Six it will mean that six-day cycling is coming home," said Boelé.
Olympic kilometre champion Chris Hoy, who recently finished riding a sprint series at the Rotterdam Six, was excited about the prospect. "I've always said it's a pity that we don't have a six-day event in Britain," Hoy told The Guardian. "I think it would be fantastic. In Rotterdam we've been getting 10,000 spectators a night and the atmosphere is incredible. I see no reason why people wouldn't come out to support a London Six, especially when you consider that Britain now has arguably the world's strongest track cycling team.