Training for One Peak in 2012 fail

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/453798/further-changes-to-olympic-track-cycling-hit-sprinting-nations.html

Depressing, eh?

It is. The UCI seem determined to fuck up track racing as an Olympic sport.

I mentioned this as a suspicion a while back.. I thought at the time it was a bit too ridiculous to actually happen..

FUCK YOU, UCI

that sucks the big one.

how come the UCI get a say?

JIHAD

ffs

What are the politics behind this? Would it be over-conspiratorial to think someone's fucked off about Rupert Murdoch's grasping tendrils all over contemporary cyclesport?

What are the politics behind this? Would it be over-conspiratorial to think someone's fucked off about Rupert Murdoch's grasping tendrils all over contemporary cyclesport?

I think that might be a little too much tin-foil over the sockets, yes.

I'm beyond wondering what goes on in the minds of these people, they have already made such a mockery of the sport I'll be surprised if we even get any cycling in 2012 at this rate

I think the GB Olympic lockdown was enough to cause this without Murdoch. When you humiliate the rest of the competition a reaction should be expected.

funny, they haven't introduced such a ruling for the athletics track sprints. what a dog show.

I think that might be a little too much tin-foil over the sockets, yes.

You would say that, because they've got to you.

as a portuguese let me say: we'll gladly take your second fastest!

Cycling needs more events, not fewer, and more opportunities for athletes, not fewer. Not that I care much about the Olympics, but I do care about cycling.

Cycling needs more events, not fewer, and more opportunities for athletes, not fewer. Not that I care much about the Olympics, but I do care about cycling.

Whether you like it or not, the Olympics has a direct impact on funding available for cycling in the UK, it affects grass-roots facilities, clubs (like your hackney CC) schools and leisure, not just the top-flite athletes.

If events and/or number of athletes are cut, the funding follows suit and trickles down to the rest of us. So it's pretty bad news all told...

I quite agree. That's what I meant to indicate by stressing that I care about cycling. (The 'trickle down' effect is of course quite overrated, as it is in wider politics, but funding is meagre enough as it is.)

dont these guys put the kibosh on everything? judging by 'The flying Scotsman' they change the rules to suit themselves at the time,
if im not confusing them with another outfit, tell me to stfu if so

(The 'trickle down' effect is of course quite overrated, as it is in wider politics,)

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overrated by whom, and how?

Pat MacQuaid is pretty 'special' isn't he, twat…

To be fair to McQuaid, he has to do what his member associations want, given that they elect him. Clearly the British dominance of track events at the Olympics has upset a few national federations.

So, because we are so good at one sport they decide to put a stop to it. Is that right? does that mean Michael Phelps will only be able to enter one race too?

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overrated by whom, and how?

Overrated in its effectiveness, and generally by conservative politics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics

Elite sports vs. grassroots sports funding is set up in a slightly similar way.

^it's nice to see you eschewing hyphenation for a change.

I don't like it there, as to me it interferes with the words' stress-pattern. :)

Overrated in its effectiveness, and generally by conservative politics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics

Elite sports vs. grassroots sports funding is set up in a slightly similar way.

I meant who says it's overrated and in what way, not "how does it work". I'm not getting into the effectiveness but so far as Cycling is concerned in this country there is a very real and direct connection with the top level and grass-roots.

(keeping the hyphen-real)

^^That's an interesting apostrophe placement in the context of noun-becomes-compound-noun socio-syntax. I wonder if there's any published literature on that subject…

But I don't think 'stress pattern' should be hyphenated. Not yet.