In the third and final part of our feature on the changes to the sprint disciplines, we’re looking at the discipline with the largest number of changes – the Keirin.
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In part one of our two part feature on the changes to the sprint disciplines we looked at the timed events – the Kilometre and 500m Time Trials and the Team Sprint. Now we turn our attention to the Sprint.
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Following on from our popular feature about the changes to the Omnium competition, we decided to have a look at the changes to the Sprint disciplines – the Sprint itself, the Kilometre and 500m Time Trial, the Team Sprint and the Keirin. In the first of three parts, we concentrate
A month ago we reported on the changes to the track regulations for the next Olympic cycle and, in particular, the changes to the Omnium format – the removal of the technical, timed events, the move to a single day of competition and the addition of the Tempo race. We
We've been back to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park quite a few times since it reopened after London 2012 - but always to the velodrome. This weekend, though, we're at the athletics stadium, for an event that has a couple of links to track cycling - but absolutely none to
UK research firm YouGov has launched a website that aggregates all the information they have on respondents who share a common interest - and one of those interests is track cycling... So - what are we really like? First off - it's a small sample... Just 146 respondents
48 hours earlier I was a 6 Days virgin. I'd read about it. I'd seen video clips on the internet - even some live streaming. But I'd never been. I was genuinely excited and absolutely sure I would love every second of it. And don't get me wrong
Arriving in Amsterdam in mid-afternoon was a bit of a surreal experience. It only just hit me what I was actually here to do - and how I had spent the last couple of years wishing that I would get this opportunity. I had had a call from the organiser
I’ve been involved in track racing in one way or another for just over ten years – and had a passion for bike racing that goes back further than that. It’s eight years, this year, since I attended my first World Cup race and five since I attended my first
For those of us having had the good fortune to have raced behind a Derny it's easy to lay our lack of talent or form firmly at the wheel of the Derny Pacer with comments such as, "that was an interval session, how could I be expected to win?" Or
