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Old 12-02-17, 07:04 AM
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Originally Posted by spartanKid
Edit: It's also worth noting that USAC doesn't always fully support athletes going to international events to represent the US. Athletes might be "selected" to go, but only given "level 2" support, which means they have to pay their own way to get there, etc.
It's also worth noting that USAC doesn't support all athletes at the same level. Men tend to get more funding for attending WC events than women, at least at the junior level.
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Old 12-02-17, 07:12 AM
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Anybody notice Volikakis is now an enduro?
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Old 12-02-17, 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Godsight
The CDN team sprint team is composed of Hugo Barrette, Joel Archambault and Patrice St-Louis Pivin. Hugo should have enough point to participate in World Cups but Joel and Patrice iirc don't have enough. AFAIK both Patrice and Joel are racing this winter in European events to gather enough UCI points for WC.
And our women's team lost Sullivan to retirement (and a crash). ...but...*ahem* my goal is to fill that spot next season.
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Originally Posted by Baby Puke
Anybody notice Volikakis is now an enduro?
it's fkn crazy. he was a sprinter in Rio 2016 and now he's doing seriously solid as an enduro - world cup podiums in the omnium and the points race IIRC! he's always been a bit of a hybrid but it looks like he's making a concerted change. seriously impressive.
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Old 12-02-17, 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Baby Puke
Anybody notice Volikakis is now an enduro?
MY girlfriend is getting annoyed because everyone time he's on camera I comment on it.

"He's so big!"
"What the **** is that huge Greek doing!?"
"Hey, did you know that Volikakis dude was a serious Keiring/Sprint guy before this?!"

I'm impressed, to be honest.
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Old 12-02-17, 10:16 AM
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Originally Posted by topflightpro
It's also worth noting that USAC doesn't support athletes
Fixed that for you.
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Old 12-02-17, 12:26 PM
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I'll be in the house for tonight's events. Looks like a sold out crowd.
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Old 12-02-17, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by southernfox
And our women's team lost Sullivan to retirement (and a crash). ...but...*ahem* my goal is to fill that spot next season.
Might wanna watch out for Laurianne Genest then but good luck filling that spot.
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Old 12-02-17, 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by spartanKid
Jamie now runs USA BMX....a discipline in which the US is quite successful.....
Whelp...I just saw this:



Here: https://www.usacycling.org/team/track

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I think @southernfox is trying to get on the canadian women sprint team if he she is mentioning Monique Sullivan replacement.
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Originally Posted by Godsight
I think @southernfox is trying to get on the canadian women sprint team if he she is mentioning Monique Sullivan replacement.
Doh!

That's right!

Well...I have no idea how that's supposed to work.
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Old 12-03-17, 04:10 AM
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Any video of this round floating around somewhere?
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Originally Posted by Baby Puke
Any video of this round floating around somewhere?
Again on NBC Sports Gold, but I don't know where to watch it for free.
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Originally Posted by Godsight
I think @southernfox is trying to get on the canadian women sprint team if he she is mentioning Monique Sullivan replacement.
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Doh!

That's right!

Well...I have no idea how that's supposed to work.
Yeah, I'm Canadian
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Old 12-03-17, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by 1incpa
Again on NBC Sports Gold, but I don't know where to watch it for free.
It's on the CBC app. Not sure if that is accessible outside Canada. The evening session will be streamed on the UCI channel at 6pm Eastern time.
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Old 12-03-17, 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by southernfox
Yeah, I'm Canadian
Sorry. I assumed you were American when you stated that you were racing at Rock Hill early on. My mistake.
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Old 12-03-17, 03:36 PM
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Sorry. I assumed you were American when you stated that you were racing at Rock Hill early on. My mistake.
Not the worst assumption. I live in the US, have a green card...but I'm Canadian ^_^
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Old 12-03-17, 06:35 PM
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Watched the Canadian women's pursuit final and noticed they all seemed to have quite wide elbows and hands a la hammer's position. Also had quite odd looking aero bars too
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Old 12-03-17, 06:52 PM
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Yeah 3 out of the 4 were riding a very wide arm position. This photo's not from last night but it's the same team:



I'm friends with one of them, I'll ask her about it the next time I see her.
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Quick highlights video:

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Old 12-04-17, 02:01 PM
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One of the French riders ran a 62x14 in the men's TS final.

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Old 12-04-17, 08:19 PM
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Wow.

Are all teams doing similar now?
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Old 12-04-17, 08:26 PM
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Not sure. I never saw the event. This was taken from friend's Crackbook post. My guess, maybe it was Pervis as anchor. Blunt the start, roll behind Man 2, and maybe mash to the line.

This is something that I think maybe Ryan Bayley from Australia missed out on. He was the kind of rider who could roll a large gear and just keep going faster and faster. A diesel(ish) type sprinter who in my opinion was forced to ride the gears of those around him to keep up with any accelerations.

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My guess is that this is the starter's bike since it seems like man 2 and 3 are always on double discs at these events. Amazing.
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One of Japan's Women TP riders was running a single strap. Maybe the Enduros are going to start coming around?
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