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Yes, she has done it. Nicky James, double world champion. Towards the | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
line, it is Jason Kenny, the world champion. -- Becky James. Great | :00:19. | :00:30. | |
Britain or the world champions again. Good afternoon. Welcome back | :00:31. | :00:50. | |
to coverage of the track cycling World Championships from Colombia. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
We already have a double world champion in the shape of Joanna | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Rowsell. She is the perceived queen. My guess, Dame Sarah Storey | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
and Jamie Staff. You were delighted with Juana's performance. Yes, it | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
has been fantastic to see her win her first individual world title. | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
Sarah Hammer, an amazing scalp for Joanna Rowsell. She has a huge smile | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
on her face. I bet there have been a few texts. Yes, she is over the | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
moon. A more dispassionate evaluation? Yes, to win an event, | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
and then get your brain around, yes, I have got to compete again | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
tomorrow, there is a bit of an anti-climax. But she got her head on | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
her shoulders and she went out and performed again. This is what is | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
coming up over the next hour and a half. If Daley Thompson had been a | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
cyclist, this would have been his event. Ed Clancy goes through Great | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Britain in the multidiscipline omniums. 12 months ago, Rebecca | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
James was having the championships of her life. We will watch try and | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
defend her title. Another cyclist with a rainbow jersey from one year | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
ago was Jason Kenny. He will go in the keirin. First, it is the men's | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
omnium. Three bunch events, and the time trials. Ed Clancy in the flying | :02:28. | :02:28. | |
lap first of all. omnium. Three bunch events, and the | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
time trials. Ed Clancy in the It was the perfect opening for Ed Clancy, | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
ending him one point for the victory. -- earning. The rider with | :02:37. | :02:49. | |
the least points from the six events wins. Next up, it was the points | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
event. Not such a happy tale for Ed Clancy, finishing in 13th place. He | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
only scored in two of the 12 spreads. That said, his strength is | :03:01. | :03:10. | |
very much in the time trials. It is the early stages, but this is the | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
standings. Ed Clancy is in fifth place. The final event of Day one | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
was the elimination race. Simon Brotherton and Chris Boardman are | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
the commentators. If other lap, a rider will be taken out. -- every | :03:32. | :03:43. | |
other. They are going at it straightaway. Every other lap, the | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
last rider over the line is out. This is a frantic event. Ed Clancy | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
in the middle of the pack. It is easy to get boxed in. This is an | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
elimination lap. It is the Italian rider who is going | :04:05. | :04:28. | |
to go. He is out. You can see that the riders have a box on their | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
handlebars and the flashing light. They know when they are out of the | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
race. It is fast and furious and we're already on the next | :04:37. | :04:37. | |
elimination. It may well be Luke Davison from | :04:38. | :05:04. | |
Australia. Yes, he is out. Ed Clancy is into third place. You can see how | :05:05. | :05:13. | |
hard it is to go around the outside. Luke Davison has had a nightmare in | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
this race. It is the rider from Mexico and the | :05:16. | :05:29. | |
back. He is owed. Number 24, from Mexico. He is the former | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
Pan-American games champion on both the road and the track. This is a | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
real tough race for the connoisseurs. -- commisaires. The | :05:41. | :05:55. | |
Danish rider is making a move around the outside of the track. Ed Clancy | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
is slap bang in the middle of the peloton. | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
The race was interrupted shortly after that with the dramatic crash. | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
As you can see, there really was carnage. It took out half of the | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
field. Swiss rider Olivier Beer was the first to fall and then it was a | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
case of dominoes. It is tough to avoid those. Fortunately, Ed Clancy | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
was not involved and he circled the track while the officials strive to | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
get the race by contract. They did that successfully. The starter has | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
got his gun out. We are underway again. -- to get the race back on | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
track. Casper Von Folsach is at the back. | :06:47. | :07:18. | |
He has been made a lot. This time, he is not going to make it. Casper | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
Von Folsach has gone. Ed Clancy is OK, but he did not have | :07:23. | :07:51. | |
much room for manoeuvre. It will be the American rider who goes, Jacob | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
Duehring. Ed Clancy was the penultimate rider over the line. He | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
was stuck on the inside. It is in the lap of the gods when you're down | :08:05. | :08:05. | |
there. Ed Clancy is going to be fine. The | :08:06. | :08:25. | |
rider to go is number 30. It is Olivier Beer from Switzerland. He | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
was first own in the crash before. I cannot say that he caused it, but he | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
was definitely first down. The rider from the Netherlands has | :08:35. | :08:58. | |
done it again. It looks like the rider from Belarus who will go. | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
Negative, it is the rider from the Czech Republic. They are really | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
strung out, because of the speed. Ed Clancy may well have gone. I do | :09:12. | :09:35. | |
not know. It is going to be close. I think he has gone. Let's look for | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
confirmation. It was very close, hardly anything in it. No, it was | :09:41. | :09:51. | |
the rider from the Ukraine. Ed Clancy thinks that he is out. He has | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
blown it. He thought he was out and he gave up before he got the | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
flashing light. That has cost him. That is an unfortunate error. A man | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
of his experience, you think he would wait for the flashing light. | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
That is an error by him. He was looking for defeat rather than | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
victory. That is disappointing. Ed Clancy clearly should have waited | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
for the light to come on. That could see him out of this competition | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
overall. He is strong in the timed events, but struggles in the | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
distance. Surely that was the Dutch man. Finally, he has been caught | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
out, Tim Veldt. Was it the Colombian rider? I think | :10:44. | :11:21. | |
so. No, they have given it to the Belgian rider. I am not sure how | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
they managed that. It will be because he rode off the track, onto | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
the blue. The Belgian is refusing to come out of the race at the moment. | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
That is not his choice. They will neutralise the race until he does, | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
it. The Colombian rider has sat up. The Belgian is still complaining. | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
The officials are not about to change their mind. The Colombian | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
actually took himself out of the race. You cannot have this dispute | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
with the officials. They are not going to change their mind because | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
you are shaking your finger at them. He is being ordered from the track. | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
We are down to the last five. Aaron Gate, the defending world champion, | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
on the front. The Colombian rider took himself out. It is getting | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
quite nasty in the middle. That was a tight one. Possibly | :12:27. | :12:49. | |
between the French rider and the rider from Belarus. It is the rider | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
from Belarus who has gone. Belgium are still going mad. | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
It did look like an unfair decision to me. | :13:04. | :13:16. | |
The Japanese rider has given way. We have not really mentioned the | :13:17. | :13:30. | |
Russian rider. He is hanging in at the back end. Viktor Manakov. One | :13:31. | :13:40. | |
more rider to come out before they can test the finish. Viktor Manakov | :13:41. | :13:58. | |
is the one to go. Three points for Viktor Manakov. He did well there. | :13:59. | :14:07. | |
He was on the seat of his pants when half the field came down in the back | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
straight. Head-to-head, between the world champion of New Zealand and | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
Thomas Boudat in France. The French man has got the legs beat. There is | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
no response. Thomas Boudat takes the victory. This was one that he would | :14:26. | :14:42. | |
have expected to do well in but he finished in 11th place with a pretty | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
slow time. This appointment for Ed Clancy. Needed to bounce back in the | :14:47. | :14:59. | |
scratch race over 15 kilometres. He took it out. That was a great | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
performance from Clancy. With one final event, he needed a strong | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
performance and others to falter if he was to get a medal. The final | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
event of the Omnium. Clancy has such a great engine. He | :15:14. | :15:25. | |
has posted times that would have seen him potentially medal before | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
now. We expect big things from him here. Four laps to go and look at | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
the effort being made their by Ed Clancy. | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
There he is now, halfway through the first lap. | :15:38. | :15:47. | |
The first lap, Ed Clancy is the fastest. | :15:48. | :15:59. | |
Can you finish this Omnium in style? Still leading the way. | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
Nearly a second quicker. Take the Bell. | :16:08. | :16:21. | |
What has he got left? He is going to get it out of himself, straining | :16:22. | :16:31. | |
every sinew. Ed Clancy's time, that is world-class from Ed Clancy. It | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
really is quite something, to be able to do that after two days of | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
competition, and of course, the team pursuit as well. He is more of a | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
sprinter than an injury and is rider, that is why he has the job of | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
getting it underway. He has done faster tonight. | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
Ed Clancy leads the way. Second at the moment, the Colombian. We will | :17:03. | :17:21. | |
have to see what happens behind him. It will be difficult because there | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
are a lot of classy riders. It is always possible. How frustrating to | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
potentially win three events out of six and not get on the podium, if | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
that is what happens. I think that is what will happen, but it shows | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
how important consistency is. He may come to regret sitting up in | :17:48. | :18:00. | |
the elimination race before his handlebars started flashing. He | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
thought he was out but he was pretty much spent at that point anyway. | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
Maybe he thought the battery had broken in his handlebars. | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
Gate, who won this title a year ago. Veldt from the Netherlands. | :18:19. | :18:46. | |
Gate is a winner of four national titles last year. Veldt is the | :18:47. | :18:57. | |
biggest challenge for Ed Clancy at this part of the competition. Gate | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
has been very consistent throughout. Not much in it. | :19:03. | :19:12. | |
They are going quick, actually. Second and third fastest, the pair | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
of them. We could see some good times here. | :19:19. | :19:32. | |
This is a great ride for Gate. Final lap, Veldt is still second fastest | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
behind Ed Clancy. Good enough for second place, and | :19:35. | :19:49. | |
Gate just fades slightly to go forth. Good ride for Gate. That is | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
what he has been throughout this event. Very consistent. He is | :19:55. | :20:07. | |
challenging for a podium spot. He needed better than that because he | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
is chasing Veldt. I don't think he will get himself onto the podium. | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
The last two riders coming up onto the track now. Boudat is in the | :20:19. | :20:35. | |
gold-medal position. Manakov is behind him on 25. These are in | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
during traders so I would not expect them to challenge for the win but | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
they will need to post respectable times. -- in Georgia's riders. -- | :20:48. | :21:02. | |
endurance. Gate is trying to get himself on the podium but the Dutch | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
rider tried to move himself up into silver position. He may well do | :21:10. | :21:10. | |
that, it is all down to this man. Potentially four laps from a gold | :21:11. | :21:21. | |
medal, the French man. Still need to put in a good rate. | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
He has taken a couple of wins. Can afford to drop a couple of places | :21:29. | :21:47. | |
but this is looking very respectable year. Fourth place after lap one. | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
Manakov is in trouble, 11th at the moment. Coming up to the halfway | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
mark. Boudat good enough for fourth still, but Manakov is down in ninth. | :22:03. | :22:03. | |
He has work to do. Boudat dropping slightly down to | :22:04. | :22:13. | |
fifth. Manakov is in eighth. The Omnium officially draws to a | :22:14. | :22:29. | |
close. Boudat did so well. He relieved pulled it out of the bag. | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
Good enough for third place in the final event, and Boudat is your | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
world champion. Very strong finish, wasn't it. Boudat takes the | :22:42. | :22:54. | |
gold-medal 24 points. Veldt is lifted up to second, Manakov is | :22:55. | :23:05. | |
third. Ed Clancy is in fifth but he won three of the six races. It might | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
all come down to that error in the elimination race. Free Morand he | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
would have been in the bronze medal position. I don't think he could | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
challenge for the win here. There is the official confirmation. Boudat is | :23:19. | :23:28. | |
the world champion, Veldt in the silver medal position. Just outside | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
the medals. Tickets through the last couple of days. He had some really | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
great performances. I think there were a couple of races, the | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
Individual Pursuit and the Points Race where you did not get what you | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
wanted. Truth be told, this week has been a bit of a nightmare. Team | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
pursuit, started off there. As you can see, track racing is all about | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
timing, and we did not get it right this time. It is the same line-up | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
that won the Europeans, the Manchester World Cup... Everything | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
has not worked out this last couple of weeks. Fifth place in Omnium with | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
the form I had is the best I could have hoped for. The scratch race, I | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
was looking at it as a soft race, and the sprint, it came down to | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
that. The Flying Lap, we still have good speed, but we don't have, we | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
are not tolerating the pursuit efforts at the moment. Points in the | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
scratch and elimination were not that bad, it was the pursuit lost | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
ground. Back to the drawing board. We will try and sort it out next | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
year. It is a long time since I have been to a World Championships and | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
never seen a British male medal. Why have the team not been able to | :24:57. | :25:07. | |
deliver? I cannot. We look back, we look at what we have done before, we | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
did try different things, you have two. -- you need to try different | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
things. It has been a busy season, lots happening, we tried a different | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
approach to training. Until quite recently we were doing well. This | :25:28. | :25:37. | |
campaign has not been bad. We have had great performances, just not | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
this week. Fascinating interview with Ed Clancy. Is it back to the | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
drawing board? This guy has two gold medals in the Olympics, he is | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
talking about the drawing board. You have British Cycling, with this | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
amazing reputation, and he looks a bit confused. He said it there, they | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
have a different approach this winter, they try new things, they | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
have a different line-up, with Ed Clancy being one of the surviving | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
cyclists from London. It is about looking at where they did not do | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
their injury and straining. They want to make -- where they did not | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
do their training. They need to carry themselves through difficult | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
weeks like this. For Ed Clancy, coming off the team pursuit, going | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
through that Omnium... How can you treat it so much when you're part of | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
a team that broke the world record in London, they know how to do this? | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
It has gone badly wrong here. It is obviously having a huge effect on | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
the outcome, whether it is purely timing or their training plan is not | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
up to scratch, obviously they will go back to the drawing board. I'm | :26:52. | :27:00. | |
sure that Dave and Shane are not panicking, they know they have the | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
athletes that can do it, and sometimes you just have to | :27:05. | :27:06. | |
experiment and sometimes you will get it wrong. How much is this | :27:07. | :27:14. | |
mental? You look at his performance in the Omnium, he has won three of | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
the events, they were brilliant. But then for him, the Individual Pursuit | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
was appalling. I think he explained it quite well because the tolerance | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
you need for an Individual Pursuit is huge. You need to be able to | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
tolerate that huge strain you're putting your body through. You need | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
to deal to get through all six. He knows his speed is very quick. He | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
usually has the length to his efforts. Is that length of effort -- | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
it is that length of effort that he is struggling with. You can look at | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
the mistake he made in the elimination but ultimately he did | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
not have that length of effort. Talking about the changing of the | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
guards, we've topped about that in respect Jason Kenny, we will hear | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
from Sir Chris Hoy, use out there as an ambassador. Ed Clancy is now one | :28:11. | :28:17. | |
of the senior, which he is maybe not used to. Is that having an effect? | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
He's definitely maturing. He obviously knows what is going on | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
back at home in the camp and is well aware of the training and | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
everything, I think he's up to it, he's a good character, you could be | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
a good team leader. A couple of years away from the Olympics, always | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
the main goal. U2 have competed here. We will talk with that in | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
moment. -- you two. On a clear day, this gives | :28:41. | :28:59. | |
spectacular views over ten Mac. -- Cali. It is recognised as | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
Columbia's city of sport, but more significantly, it is the world | :29:06. | :29:13. | |
capital of salsa. The Colombians are passionate about sport and they | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
definitely love their cycling. Cycling has been popular since the | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
early 1940s. It has become very popular. Cali, the track is the best | :29:25. | :29:39. | |
in Latin America. We have people that know about cycling on the | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
track. We want a gold medal for the Colombian team. But for us, all | :29:44. | :29:51. | |
riders are the same. What does it mean to Cali to hold the World | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
Championships? For the country, we feel very proud to have the best | :29:57. | :29:59. | |
cyclists in the world competing in Colombia. The locals are clearly | :30:00. | :30:08. | |
proud to be hosting these World Championships, while the riders are | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
welcoming the whole experience. I really like Cali, I have fond | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
memories. I have only been once, but it was special. The atmosphere is | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
incredible. It is a bit odd having no sides on, because you can have a | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
head wind down one straight and a tail wind down the other, which is a | :30:29. | :30:35. | |
bit weird, but I like the track. When you go into the velodrome, it | :30:36. | :30:37. | |
takes your breath away, because you can see the mountains in the | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
background. The scenery is fantastic and the Colombians love cycling. | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
They love the atmosphere and they get into the racing. It is a party | :30:48. | :30:56. | |
atmosphere. A nation passionate about cycling, and they went mad in | :30:57. | :31:03. | |
the men's points race. The 2011 world champion taking the world | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
title. He did it by gaining three laps. He was constantly on the | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
attack. He beat Tom Scully of New Zealand. The front page of the big | :31:15. | :31:23. | |
newspaper in Cali. You can see, he is the man. It was an outstanding | :31:24. | :31:34. | |
performance from Edwin. What are your memories of Cali and what it is | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
like as a country? Colourful, scary at times. You have just got to be | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
aware, like a lot of places you're not familiar with. You have got to | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
be smart, do not carry around tonnes of cash or go out late at night. But | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
I loved it. The atmosphere that the track was awesome. When you are an | :31:56. | :32:01. | |
athlete competing on a track with that atmosphere, it adds to your | :32:02. | :32:06. | |
performance. I am sure that everyone will be enjoying the racing. And | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
they are dancing in the stands as well, especially when there are | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
Colombians winning. It is like a Colombian salsa through the stadium. | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
We're going to turn attention to the women's sprint. Becky James has | :32:21. | :32:26. | |
already matched the bronze medal she got in the team sprint, but she did | :32:27. | :32:30. | |
not manage to do it in the 500 metres time trial. | :32:31. | :32:36. | |
She struggled, she was down in seventh place. She got a bronze | :32:37. | :32:47. | |
medal in Belarus. In the individual sprint, she was the defending | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
champion in this one. At the quarterfinal stage, her team-mate, | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
Jess Varnish, she became the adversary. | :32:59. | :33:12. | |
Becky James should be the quicker of the two. But Jess Varnish is really | :33:13. | :33:20. | |
sprinting well after her injuries last year. She has had a lot of back | :33:21. | :33:29. | |
trouble, Jess Varnish. It is great to see her back out on the track, | :33:30. | :33:38. | |
and riding strongly. Becky James, water championship she had 12 months | :33:39. | :33:48. | |
ago in Belarus. She was the first British rider to win medals in four | :33:49. | :33:51. | |
events at the same World Championships. Two gold medals and | :33:52. | :34:00. | |
two bronze medals. They have to continue, at least at walking pace. | :34:01. | :34:03. | |
You can see the official at the bottom. They have to do that until | :34:04. | :34:12. | |
they have completed the first half lap. Farne is still the rider at the | :34:13. | :34:30. | |
front. -- Jess Varnish. Becky James is happy to bite her time. -- bide | :34:31. | :34:50. | |
her time. The longer it goes on, the more the tension builds. Now they | :34:51. | :34:59. | |
have passed the half lap marker, they can stand still if they wish, | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
to force their opponent to come through, but it cannot be for longer | :35:04. | :35:08. | |
than 30 seconds. Otherwise the race will be restarted. | :35:09. | :35:39. | |
Jess Varnish closing the gap, and pipping her on the line. Jess | :35:40. | :35:46. | |
Varnish had a lot of work to do during the last lap. She managed to | :35:47. | :35:56. | |
close the gap and roll level. She nudged her front wheel in front of | :35:57. | :35:59. | |
Becky James as they approached the line. A very strong acceleration. | :36:00. | :36:05. | |
She stayed in the slipstream writing to the last rate. The long straight | :36:06. | :36:09. | |
is really changing the tactics for the event. There is a real advantage | :36:10. | :36:17. | |
to be at the back. We have got quite a race in this all British | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
quarterfinal. Jess Varnish with the advantage, having won the first | :36:23. | :36:27. | |
race. The defending champion, Becky James, has to win this. That must | :36:28. | :36:35. | |
have come as a real surprise. Jessica Varnish had to come back | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
through the repechage early today. I thought that Becky James was the | :36:41. | :36:48. | |
favourite. But that late acceleration really took us by | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
surprise. A psychological test for Becky James, as well as a physical | :36:54. | :37:00. | |
one. There is no room for error. There is a gentle breeze swirling | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
around the track in Cali. What a race this could be. There will be a | :37:07. | :37:11. | |
British rider in the semifinals, but which way will it go? | :37:12. | :37:28. | |
There is a firecracker being set off. We thought that was the starter | :37:29. | :37:36. | |
pistol. Everyone is looking around, but I think you're right. It was | :37:37. | :37:38. | |
something in the stand. Let's hope it is a firecracker! | :37:39. | :37:46. | |
track, the tension is building. They have completed half a lap, so a | :37:47. | :37:59. | |
standstill as possible, as long as it does not last more than 30 | :38:00. | :38:02. | |
seconds. Sure enough, it is Becky James that is trying to force | :38:03. | :38:09. | |
Jessica Varnish to come through. She does not want to have to lead this | :38:10. | :38:14. | |
one out. Sliding down to the bottom of the track, Jess Varnish. She is | :38:15. | :38:20. | |
smiling. She just overlapped the wheel. They were so close. That is | :38:21. | :38:28. | |
not exactly what Becky James wanted, but because she was so close to her, | :38:29. | :38:34. | |
she thought, if I stole it now, she will have to come past me. But Jess | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
Varnish was not interested. That was the end result. I think they will | :38:40. | :38:44. | |
consider that a mishap and there will be a restart. There was | :38:45. | :38:51. | |
certainly no intent involved. Becky James was still moving slightly at | :38:52. | :39:05. | |
the time. They are just having a chat as Jess Varnish wanders back | :39:06. | :39:20. | |
towards the start line. I am just reading one of the rules just now. | :39:21. | :39:27. | |
That may be deemed that it was caused by a competitor riding too | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
slowly in a curve. Then that person will be deemed to be at fault. They | :39:33. | :39:38. | |
will have to take the lead. I am not sure that they were in the band. I | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
think that is referring to when riders go too slowly and slide down. | :39:43. | :39:48. | |
I think they will ride again. That is what is going to happen now. I do | :39:49. | :39:55. | |
not know whether you heard that, Jessica Varnish will take the | :39:56. | :40:03. | |
opening position on the first lap. Becky James is the one with the | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
union flag on her crash helmet. The white stripe is Jessica Varnish. | :40:09. | :40:26. | |
Here we go. At the second time of asking. A little reminder that it is | :40:27. | :40:41. | |
Jess Varnish has the advantage. Becky James has to win this match or | :40:42. | :40:45. | |
her chance of retaining the world title will be gone. James is in the | :40:46. | :40:56. | |
better tactical position. Jess Varnish is giving her space, that is | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
what she did not do before. She has left yourself room to manoeuvre. | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
Well, she had room to manoeuvre, but she has used it up. Both of these | :41:07. | :41:12. | |
riders are capable of doing a track stand for some time. They are only | :41:13. | :41:21. | |
allowed to do that for 30 seconds. The gun will be fired and the race | :41:22. | :41:24. | |
will be restarted. It is still Varnish at the front. When they come | :41:25. | :41:43. | |
into the straits, the riders come to the top of the track, because they | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
want the hype, to be able to accelerate down. -- the height. The | :41:48. | :41:57. | |
downside of that is that it is easy to be taken by surprise if the rear | :41:58. | :42:09. | |
competitor drops down quickly. Becky James is in the position that she | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
wants to be. This could prove tactically important. They have 1.5 | :42:15. | :42:25. | |
laps to go. They are still going very slowly. They have to be | :42:26. | :42:31. | |
careful. Surprise can be a big element if you leave it till late in | :42:32. | :42:35. | |
the race. They have normally started to wind up by this point. It will be | :42:36. | :42:42. | |
very explosive. I think that Jess Varnish might have the edge from an | :42:43. | :42:46. | |
acceleration, if this comes down to a drag race to the finish. She will | :42:47. | :42:49. | |
be happy to keep it slow. Jess Varnish wins, 2-0. Brilliant | :42:50. | :43:22. | |
sprinting from her. The champion has lost her crime, because Becky James | :43:23. | :43:27. | |
will not go through. 2-0 in the best-of-3/4-final. -- lost her | :43:28. | :43:36. | |
crown. It is such a shame that one of the British riders has to go out | :43:37. | :43:43. | |
at this stage. Jess Varnish was brilliant. She never gave up that | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
inside position. Becky James had to come the long way around for over | :43:49. | :43:52. | |
one lap of racing. They are so evenly matched. She finished fifth | :43:53. | :44:01. | |
place overall. Jess Varnish marched on, she ended up in a battle for the | :44:02. | :44:04. | |
bronze medal having lost in the semifinals. Jess Varnish, who | :44:05. | :44:18. | |
already has a bronze medal, racing alongside Becky James, has an | :44:19. | :44:21. | |
opportunity to win another medal at these World Championships. Best of | :44:22. | :44:24. | |
breed. The first race. these World Championships. Best of | :44:25. | :44:34. | |
breed. This is for bronze. Varnish leading on the opening lap. | :44:35. | :44:54. | |
A reminder, three laps of the track. | :44:55. | :45:06. | |
Past that first-half lap, Varnish seeing if she can force her opponent | :45:07. | :45:16. | |
to come to the front. 100% concentration here. Aware of | :45:17. | :45:33. | |
any sudden movement. The slower they are, the more the | :45:34. | :45:52. | |
tension builds. Just completing the first lap now. | :45:53. | :45:58. | |
Varnish leading from the front. Not often we see anybody trying to take | :45:59. | :46:09. | |
a long one, but always possible. Every now and again, somebody does | :46:10. | :46:10. | |
it and gets away with it. They take the bell. Sprint has not | :46:11. | :46:29. | |
opened up. Temporary would like it to start late. She would like to be | :46:30. | :46:35. | |
as as possible. Round the banking, in towards the finishing straight, | :46:36. | :46:46. | |
Lin draws past Varnish. She leads in this best race. We could see that | :46:47. | :46:52. | |
was going to happen. Already started to ease up. I don't know what | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
Varnish could have done there. Riding from the front doesn't seem | :46:58. | :46:59. | |
to work on this track. First race in the gold-medal match | :47:00. | :47:37. | |
up. It is Tianshi against Vogel. I wonder how close this final will be. | :47:38. | :47:43. | |
So far, Vogel has looked the pick of the field. We have seen a lot of | :47:44. | :47:53. | |
close racing but in this instance, Vogel had definitely been the | :47:54. | :47:56. | |
strongest rider in this competition. The only one to win from the front | :47:57. | :47:58. | |
consistently as well. Hard to see how she's going to lose | :47:59. | :48:05. | |
this one. 1.5 laps to go. The speed is | :48:06. | :48:26. | |
building. Vogel is taking the height. Trying to force her | :48:27. | :48:30. | |
opponent. And then Vogel slips on the inside. That was a surprise | :48:31. | :48:36. | |
move. She has decided to take this from the front. Kristina Vogel is. | :48:37. | :48:43. | |
Confidence here. Zhong Tianshi is trying to come back, can she take | :48:44. | :48:47. | |
advantage of this particular position? She cannot. Vogel is too | :48:48. | :48:54. | |
fast. She reads 1-0 in this final. She totally took control of that | :48:55. | :49:00. | |
one. The only rider to be winning from the frontier because physically | :49:01. | :49:04. | |
there is quite a gap between her and the rest of the field. The | :49:05. | :49:09. | |
confidence to take it on and dictate the race. That big acceleration, | :49:10. | :49:19. | |
there was no chance to get on terms. Kristina Vogel is one win away from | :49:20. | :49:21. | |
the gold medal. This is a potentially decisive ride | :49:22. | :49:46. | |
in the race for bronze because Lin Junhong is one up on Jess Varnish. | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
She needs to get the victory otherwise the bronze goes to China. | :49:51. | :49:56. | |
She needs to break the trend of competition that far. I was | :49:57. | :49:59. | |
surprised she was bested in the last round. | :50:00. | :50:10. | |
She was beaten in straight rights but it was a very close-run thing. | :50:11. | :50:20. | |
-- rides. In the second race she was beaten by the width of attire. | :50:21. | :50:32. | |
Looking to win a world Championship medal for the second time in her | :50:33. | :50:35. | |
career, the Chinese rider. Jess Varnish is looking for the | :50:36. | :50:42. | |
second medal of the week. Lin Junhong needs to have a head on | :50:43. | :51:01. | |
a swivel to keep an eye on Jess Varnish year. Which of course is the | :51:02. | :51:03. | |
idea. Jess Varnish has got to go for it | :51:04. | :51:13. | |
here. It is all or nothing. One lap to go. Can Jess Varnish keep her | :51:14. | :51:20. | |
chances alive here? The Chinese rider leads the sprint into the back | :51:21. | :51:24. | |
straight. The gap is closing. Can she come around the outside? Here | :51:25. | :51:33. | |
comes Varnish, she has not quite got it. Lin Junhong takes the bronze | :51:34. | :51:40. | |
medal for China in straight rights. -- rides. | :51:41. | :51:55. | |
What about Zhong Tianshi, can she take the race to Kristina Vogel? | :51:56. | :52:14. | |
Kristina Vogel is one victory away from the world title. Silver last | :52:15. | :52:19. | |
year. Will she be on the top of the podium this evening? | :52:20. | :52:31. | |
Race number two in the world sprint final. Kristina Vogel leading | :52:32. | :52:39. | |
followed by Zhong Tianshi. Vogel the clear favourite. Can | :52:40. | :52:48. | |
Tianshi upset the odds here? I think she's got an almost | :52:49. | :53:00. | |
impossible task to beat Vogel. Vogel is the only rider in this | :53:01. | :53:14. | |
competition capable of winning from any position that she chooses. Very | :53:15. | :53:26. | |
dominant in the previous round. She walloped her opponent in straight | :53:27. | :53:27. | |
rides. Coming to the finishing straight at | :53:28. | :53:37. | |
the end of the first lap. Kristina Vogel trying to force the | :53:38. | :53:55. | |
issue. She already one from the front, deciding she would like to | :53:56. | :53:58. | |
try riding at the rear as well. It just ratchets up the tension. I | :53:59. | :54:22. | |
would say the whole Chinese sprint scene has moved on a notch | :54:23. | :54:28. | |
tactically as well as physically. The stopwatch has started. Neither | :54:29. | :54:34. | |
rider is giving an inch. The crowd are appreciating the skill. | :54:35. | :54:38. | |
Now it is back to business. Sometimes standing still used to | :54:39. | :54:46. | |
last four minutes, ten minutes on occasions. We are done with that in | :54:47. | :54:51. | |
this particular race because they will take the bell next time they go | :54:52. | :54:57. | |
past us. Here we go. Vogel is one lap away from the world title unless | :54:58. | :55:01. | |
the rider from China can do something about it. Vogel is in the | :55:02. | :55:03. | |
lead. Can she stay there? It is going to be Vogel's title! | :55:04. | :55:18. | |
World champion at 23, well champion in the individual sprint to go with | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
the team sprint. Top step of the podium, she has been the class of | :55:24. | :55:25. | |
the field throughout this competition. Kristina Vogel, world | :55:26. | :55:28. | |
sprint champion. No medals for either Jess Varnish | :55:29. | :55:40. | |
Becky James -- or Becky James. What did you make of the tactics for | :55:41. | :55:43. | |
Becky James? She said they had no idea why they went for these | :55:44. | :55:50. | |
tactics. She was not very happy. I think she should have just ignored | :55:51. | :55:53. | |
the coach, gone on with what she was happy doing. You don't really try | :55:54. | :55:58. | |
and bring in new tactics at the world Championship level, obviously | :55:59. | :56:05. | |
the coaches know the opponent, so in this situation maybe they were | :56:06. | :56:09. | |
trying to find a weakness, but when you're racing you need to be | :56:10. | :56:12. | |
confident in what you're doing so having that, she has got to Boyce is | :56:13. | :56:17. | |
-- two voices in her head, not a good place to be. Year ago she came | :56:18. | :56:22. | |
in under the radar, won two golds, a couple of bronze, is there anything | :56:23. | :56:28. | |
different coming in with expectation? When you are the hunted | :56:29. | :56:33. | |
rider it is a different experience. It is great for her to have it. She | :56:34. | :56:38. | |
is only 21, she will come back so much stronger having had this | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
experience. If it is only tactics that is the problem, if her form is | :56:43. | :56:47. | |
good, that is the main battle. Tactics can change, she can do new | :56:48. | :56:52. | |
things, we saw Vogel winning and Becky James beat her last year, but | :56:53. | :56:57. | |
Vogel's tactics have changed. She is pulling moves that she did not have | :56:58. | :57:02. | |
the confidence to do last year. Becky will have that experience and | :57:03. | :57:05. | |
be stronger for it. It is difficult to read too much into it, but you | :57:06. | :57:12. | |
read what Becky James has said, Ed Clancy, there seems to be | :57:13. | :57:16. | |
uncertainty in British Cycling, which is not what we have been used | :57:17. | :57:23. | |
to. David Nott there. He was a huge inspirational figure. -- David is | :57:24. | :57:32. | |
not there. He would do motivational talks, Raleigh and get everyone | :57:33. | :57:35. | |
round, you would walk out of the room ready for the week. -- rally. | :57:36. | :57:41. | |
Whether that has had an impact, I don't know. It is hard to say. It is | :57:42. | :57:46. | |
an interesting year, there has been a lot of riders leaving. Even though | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
Chris is out, we don't know what the effect of his role is. It is | :57:53. | :57:59. | |
interesting. Do you think Dave Brailsford is missed? It'll be to | :58:00. | :58:04. | |
find out from the Raiders. We have had conversations like this before, | :58:05. | :58:08. | |
experimentation has taken place and the result has not been the outcome | :58:09. | :58:12. | |
we hope for, but then 12 months, two years later, it is amazing. I think | :58:13. | :58:18. | |
we need to reserve judgement and they are experimenting and we know | :58:19. | :58:25. | |
that the experiences they have will help. She will be super fired up for | :58:26. | :58:36. | |
the keirin. That will be on tomorrow. Jason Kenny is also there, | :58:37. | :58:37. | |
let's hear from them. Jason Kenny is in a good spot here. | :58:38. | :58:49. | |
Up towards the line, it is Jason Kenny, the world champion. What a | :58:50. | :58:55. | |
ride, when it really mattered. How do you see it in relation to where | :58:56. | :58:59. | |
you were last year? I would like to be faster but then I would always | :59:00. | :59:02. | |
like to be going faster. Last year was pants, to be honest. Now we have | :59:03. | :59:10. | |
had a full year of training, a good off-season, going into this one in | :59:11. | :59:16. | |
better shape. You are very much in that role as a senior member of the | :59:17. | :59:21. | |
team, how does that sense of responsibility sit with you? I don't | :59:22. | :59:26. | |
feel any different. To be honest, some of the guys, I thought everyone | :59:27. | :59:32. | |
was the same age, even though we are really not. I am five years older | :59:33. | :59:35. | |
than some people. All of a sudden they seem really young. It is good | :59:36. | :59:39. | |
to have people who are really angry to be here, they remind me of myself | :59:40. | :59:44. | |
in many ways. It is quite inspiring in a way. You see how you were back | :59:45. | :00:06. | |
then. How much would it mean to you to winning Cali? It would be good. I | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
then. How much would it mean to you need to get on with business as | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
usual. The World Championships, it comes round every year and you wear | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
the jersey if you win it. It is special. | :00:21. | :00:33. | |
I wonder how Jason Kenny will play this one. Will he try to be more | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
assertive or lighter towards the back of the field? -- or loiter. The | :00:39. | :00:50. | |
riders are quite evenly matched. It will come down to tactics. I cannot | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
believe that Jason Kenny's previous raid was planned to come from that | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
far back. He managed to get himself through. Jason Kenny, the defending | :01:01. | :01:09. | |
champion from Great Britain is in the field. There are two Germans in | :01:10. | :01:29. | |
the race. Let's see if they will try and do something from that position. | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
Nothing at this stage. They are content to wait. Six laps to go. If | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
you're wondering what the differences, Max Levy has black | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
socks. The other rider has green socks. Francois Pervis on the front. | :01:50. | :02:01. | |
In second place, the Pan-American games champion. Can he get a medal | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
for the host nation? The crowd are excited about this one. Max Levy is | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
at the back at the moment. Jason Kenny is in fifth place. We are just | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
splitting up the Germans. Everyone is waiting while the motor Excel | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
rates, up to its top speed of 50 kilometres per hour. -- while the | :02:30. | :02:44. | |
motorbike accelerates. Just one lap now until the motorbike swings out. | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
Francois Pervis. Francois Pervis takes the gold | :02:51. | :03:32. | |
medal. It is a silver medal for Colombia. But the spectacular crash | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
on the far side of the track. Max Levy upended and unable to finish. | :03:40. | :03:58. | |
Francois Pervis and the word title -- adds the world title to his kilo | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
crown. The rider from the Netherlands claimed the bronze | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
medal. Jason Kenny was in fifth place. | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
medal. We will reflect on that very | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
shortly, the men's keirin. Let's move on to the individual sprint. | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
Once again, Jason Kenny find himself up against Francois Pervis. But he | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
only got there qualifying through the repechage. | :04:28. | :04:36. | |
What a race this could be. It is the first matchup in this quarterfinal | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
between Jason Kenny and Francois Pervis. Jason Kenny came through | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
against Robert Forstemann. Slowly around the banking away to | :04:52. | :05:09. | |
our left. Francois Pervis, the way he has | :05:10. | :05:35. | |
ridden this week, he must feel unbeatable. Two laps remaining, just | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
under that. Francois Pervis is limbering up, gaining height. He | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
wants to take control of this one. Jason Kenny just did not have the | :05:48. | :06:13. | |
legs, he did not have the speed. Francois Pervis, the man of the | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
week, with two gold medals already, he takes a 1-0 lead. It is hard to | :06:18. | :06:33. | |
know what he can do here. He wrote tactically very well in the previous | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
round, but Francois Pervis, he also knew what he was doing. He had the | :06:37. | :06:48. | |
extra engine power. But he is forced to lead out this time. Francois | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
Pervis was just a little bit too quick for Jason Kenny in the first | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
ride. It was as simple as that. Can Jason Kenny pull it out of the bag? | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
Can the force a third and deciding race between the pair of them? If | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
Francois Pervis wins this one, he is through in straight rights. -- | :07:12. | :07:29. | |
straight rides. Francois Pervis, he has an air of confidence about him. | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
He is thinking of a medal in this match sprint. The fastest ever | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
kilometre time trial scene at the World Championships. Yes, yesterday. | :07:44. | :07:55. | |
It was at the end of what was an increasingly exciting kilo | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
competition. He has decided he's going to take this one from the | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
front. Jason Kenny has given him a lot of | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
Jason Kenny was fighting hard all the way to the line, but he did not | :08:14. | :08:33. | |
have enough. Francois Pervis wins in straight rights. 2-0. -- rides. That | :08:34. | :08:45. | |
was a very, very fast sprint. It was just not quite enough. | :08:46. | :09:03. | |
It would be nice to finish with a victory, but unfortunately I am only | :09:04. | :09:12. | |
finishing fifth. I was fifth in the keirin, fifth in the team sprint, | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
and fifth in the individual sprint. I think I might just be fifth in the | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
world at the moment. It is quite disappointing. Qualifying for the | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
sprint, your role is going to put it up against yourself with the draw, | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
when you qualified so far down. What do you put that down to? I am not | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
sure. I have not qualified well all year. It is very close, I am not | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
losing a massive amount, but it is always that fraction. It can mean | :09:44. | :09:55. | |
the difference of ten places. You set yourself up for a hard day. | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
There are no easy races. It was a tough day. Disappointing. Buy your | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
own standards, it has been a disappointing World Championships. | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
We expect Great Britain to win medals and we expect you to come | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
away with something. Is it enough to say that we are a couple of years | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
out of the Olympics? How concerned should we be? I think that is the | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
text the cancer, but as a rider, I want to win. In the keirin, I was a | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
bit unfortunate, but realistically, I have not been near the victory in | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
any of these events. We will have to work hard to try and rectify that. | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
We need to get back to where we belong. We are looking at a | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
situation where Great Britain might go home with no medals for male | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
competitors. Is that something the team is worried about, it has not | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
happened for a long time? I cannot speak for the team, it is a worry | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
for myself. We have lost Chris and Victoria. But I think we have enough | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
talent and quality to come through and win more medals. When you look | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
at the table, it has been a disappointing World Championships. | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
We still have Laura Trott in the onion, and she is looking good. The | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
press officer for British Cycling has obviously given Jason Kenny the | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
key messages, which he is ignoring excavation Mark let's not forget, | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
Joanna Rowsell has two gold medals. Let's not get too depressed, but so | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
far, it has been a tale of almost Groundhog Day, with those | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
interviews, I am not sure, I do not know that it has gone wrong. I am | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
trying to get my head around it, and from my own experience, I think you | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
need the lows to get the highs. I'm not panicking, and I do not think | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
the riders are panicking. It will give them the kick up the backside | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
that they need. They are beatable. There is plenty of competition out | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
there that can beat them. Hopefully they will go home and try new | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
things. They will be able to turn it around. That is a great | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
observation, about not panicking, because Jason Kenny, for all that he | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
is going fifth, fifth, he was pretty relaxed. Yes, and you cannot think | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
straight after the race, what you need to change. Those are the things | :12:32. | :12:40. | |
that happen over the summer season. They will qualify for the World Cups | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
and come back into the winter season. Over the next few weeks, | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
they will be looking at the lessons they can learn. They will change the | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
things that they did not like that happened this week. In terms of the | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
keirin and the individual sprint, what did you see there that Jason | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
Kenny did or did not do? The spark was not there. He did not look | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
super-sharp like he has done in the past. His tactics in the races were | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
pretty good. I could not fault them. At the top 1% was not there. I do | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
not think there is a massive panic going on. I would not be panicking | :13:19. | :13:27. | |
if I was him. There has been a big change in the qualifying for this | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
series. The riders have to go out and get these grands prixs. All the | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
other countries are having to do it as well, but there has been a change | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
in the system, and that may take a bit of adjustment. One of the big | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
changes is no more Sir Chris Hoy. He has been speaking to a reporter. | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
A big presence for Britain this week has been Sir Chris Hoy, enjoying his | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
first world championship since announcing his retirement from the | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
track. What exactly has your role been this week? It has been an | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
informal role. I have been behind the scenes, some want to do little | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
jobs, a bit of a dogsbody, but someone to chat to the riders. I | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
found it useful in my career to have objectives, and the views of people | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
out with the inner circle. People who understand what it is like to | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
compete at this level, but they are a step removed from it. You can have | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
a sounding board. That is what I have been doing. Do you wish you | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
were out there? When you see how fast they are going, I'm quite glad | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
to be spectating. The standard is getting higher overtime and I'm 100% | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
sure I got the best out of myself, and I finished at the right time. | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
You start to appreciate what it was you had the chance of doing for so | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
long. I watched the final from up in the stands and it was awesome. I was | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
doing that not long ago. You feel proud you had that opportunity. I'm | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
very happy to be spectating and not on the track. What have you made of | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
these World Championships? It is a transition between the Olympic cycle | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
for Great Britain. We have had some success but not as much as we have | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
grown used to. The expectation is always high. You can make excuses | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
reasons for not topping the medal table. Every race we get up there, | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
we want to win. There are a few disappointed riders but there are a | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
lot of great hopefuls, you have young riders coming into the team | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
pursuit, men and women, the team sprint, we are going through a | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
transitional phase. It is a difficult sport. Sport is | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
unpredictable. We are still winning medals, you need to look back for | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
years, before London there were questions being asked. We always | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
manage to do it when it counts. That is not to say we don't want to win | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
world titles, but when we get to Rio de Janiero we will hopefully be back | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
on top. That was Chris Hoy speaking. What you think it will be | :16:15. | :16:24. | |
like having Sir Chris Hoy out there? He is such a big character, our most | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
successful Olympian. Could it be a positive or a negative? It could be, | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
but I think having him there is a fantastic idea. He has all that | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
experience, he knows what it is, doing that, he knows what is in | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
front of him. He is able to put the arms round shoulders of riders, they | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
will be disappointed, he can help them through it, help them be | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
positive for the next race, going home with a positive attitude for | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
the coming training that they've got to do. You know him really well. You | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
won gold back in 2008. What you think he will bring to the table? A | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
lot of experience. I'm a coach, and I really enjoy passing things onto | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
athletes. They are struggling, dealing with highs and lows. It is | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
the great pleasure of passing that knowledge on. There is no better | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
guide to do it than Chris. I'm sure they will appreciate it. Interesting | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
that he is they are when David Brailsford is not. Coincidence? -- | :17:30. | :17:40. | |
he's there. Who knows? Chris is great to have out there, and Dave | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
has one opportunity to give the team a chance to do something without | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
him. That is obviously something they can take away and decide | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
whether it is the right call to make. Back in 2004, Chris Hoy was | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
the world champion in the keirin. It was dropped from the Olympics. Here | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
is what happened in the World Championships, where it is still | :18:09. | :18:09. | |
involved. -- the kilo. Not much in it in the first time | :18:10. | :18:30. | |
check. In touch is all you need to be. It is all about the final | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
quarter. You have to be within a 10th of a second to have a chance at | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
taking the fastest time. That is what years. Almost level pegging | :18:39. | :18:39. | |
now. Starting to go out by a 10th of a | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
second, losing a little bit of ground. Once the rot has started it | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
is nearly impossible to bring it back. He is holding his own. Still | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
over a lap to go. What has he got left in the tank? It is the fastest | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
time at the three quarters distance. It will come back to this are flat. | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
Remember there are only two riders to come after he crosses the line. | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
We have a new leader X permission Mark what are -- sweet have leader! | :19:15. | :19:23. | |
That has taken us all by surprise. What a phenomenal ride. He just did | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
not pirate. -- get tired. The first ride below a minute. Truly | :19:28. | :19:44. | |
fantastic. Just two riders left in this event. Simon van Velthooven is | :19:45. | :19:54. | |
underway. I think the fastest times set at sea-level was just over a | :19:55. | :20:04. | |
minute. That is a slow start. Is he going to wind it up? Is he going to | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
be off the pace? It is over half a second. That is too much time to | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
make up. He is holding his own at half a second. That is probably over | :20:16. | :20:28. | |
ten metres. He has have a second to pick up. He has made an inroad. It | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
is going to take an enormous final lap. | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
It is going to get him on the podium. Halfway down the back | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
straight, he just has to go down the banking one final time. Then he | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
brings it home to the finish now. It is going to be close. It is good | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
enough for second place. Silver medal position for Simon van | :20:49. | :20:57. | |
Velthooven. He was second last year, I wonder whether he will be | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
second this year. We spoke about world records. It is this man who | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
holds the world record, albeit at altitude. He has already shown us he | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
is on fantastic form. My guess would be the New Zealander is heading for | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
a bronze medal spot here. Francois Pervis has got his work cut out. He | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
certainly has the form but that is some barrier to overcome. Sub one | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
minute, incredible time. From such a young rider as well. Yes, 23, from | :21:42. | :21:50. | |
Germany. Francois Pervis has been around for a long time. He has seen | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
it all before. He will not be put off. The last time it was held in | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
the Olympic Games, 2004, he wrote. -- he was in it. He produced a ride | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
that was good enough for six place. That was 20 years ago in the Olympic | :22:11. | :22:11. | |
Games. The simplest ideas are the best. Big | :22:12. | :22:24. | |
white strap, good security, nice and clean. Surprised that the British | :22:25. | :22:32. | |
team did not come up with that one. We know his form is good. Will it be | :22:33. | :22:43. | |
good enough? 59.984 is the time to beat. | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
We will know in one minute. It is all about pacing. The second half of | :22:48. | :23:06. | |
the race is what it is all about. Three tenths of a second inside that | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
fastest time! He is absolutely flying, it is as if he has been | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
thrown from a gun. We can expect this to be good. That is enormous. | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
At the halfway mark, it is over eight tenths of a second, this is an | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
absolutely stunning ride by the defending champion from France, | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
Francois Pervis. We could see it below 59 seconds. That would be | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
quite incredible. He is nearly a full second ahead of every other | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
rider. Have a lap to go. What has he got left in the legs? Is it a ride | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
that will bring him a gold medal? I'm sure it is X permission Mark it | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
absolutely is! The fastest ever World Championship time. The world | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
record holder is still the world champion and the king of the kilo. | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
That takes some doing, to come out and beat the fastest ever time by | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
over half a second. I have never seen anything like that at the World | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
Championships. He takes the applause of the crowd while we watch the | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
replay. That was a phenomenal ride. Technically superb. The bar was set | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
extremely high. He did not just squeak inside the time, he | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
absolutely annihilated it. I am going to defer to the commentators, | :24:40. | :24:48. | |
but we think Francois Pervis is superb. A great success story for | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
France. One of the great success stories for Britain has been Katie | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
Archibald, going in the points race. Quite remarkable for a young woman | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
who only started cycling in 2011. 100 laps of the track. Points every | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
ten laps. If you gain a lap it is 20 point bonus. | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
They are one lap away from the next set of points. She should be able to | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
score some points, get something for her effort. I don't think these two | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
will be allowed to stay away. The gap is closing. She will get some | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
points on the board. Katie Archibald has got five points on the board. | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
Excellent start. She is making a race of it. The first to make the | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
junction. They are really starting to put the hammer down in front of | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
her. Trying to chase. It is making it more difficult. Not far off the | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
back as you can see. Amy Cure is trying to get that lap. | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
Stephanie Pohl has broken away from the five others. Jasmin Glaesser is | :26:10. | :26:33. | |
puffing. Make the junction. Move into second place. | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
Amy Cure is the leader on 30 points overall. Stephanie Pohl is up to 25. | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
It is going to be made by Katie Archibald. They have joined the back | :26:50. | :27:02. | |
of the pellet -- peloton. It is going to be a good head-to-head | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
battle. Amy Cure has got the legs and takes five points. That puts her | :27:06. | :27:16. | |
strongly in the lead. Comes at to take the bell. One lap to go. She is | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
in trouble here. Comes around the long way. Leading the chase now. | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
Jasmin Glaesser is coming around the top. They are outside the top is at | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
the moment, Amy Cure is up towards the line. Trying to hang on. | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
Jasmin Glaesser crosses the line in first place on the final sprint. | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
What a close race that was at the end. Amy Cure, the gold medallist | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
ahead of Stephanie Pohl from Germany. In fourth place, Katie | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
Archibald from Great Britain. Give us your initial thoughts. It is a | :27:57. | :28:04. | |
great performance. I can imagine I will do much better than that, but I | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
was not content, I knew I had lost it in that last half. It is the end | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
that you remember. I was not there. You had a busy week, to come away | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
with the rainbow jersey from the start of the week, overall, your | :28:22. | :28:30. | |
thoughts on this? It has been all the things you can imagine. It felt | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
once we got the rainbow jersey, the pressure was on for this, because | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
before that, nobody knew my name, you could get away with coming out | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
and they would not notice. I had a pretty tough time coming into it, | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
overthinking things. It is a bit of a relief, it is fourth place, but I | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
will hopefully get another chance to have another crack at it. Very cool | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
doing your interview on the bike afterwards. You know Katie is pretty | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
well. It has been a remarkable journey. Even 12 months ago, nobody | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
would have known her name. She came into the team pursuit squad last | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
summer, did an incredible ride at the championships, she has had an | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
incredible winter, she has been doing bunch races as well as the | :29:23. | :29:25. | |
team pursuit. I'm looking forward to racing with her on the road. The | :29:26. | :29:34. | |
women's team pursuit, they have won the gold medal again. Not quite as | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
dominant as we have seen them, but you have got five into four. You | :29:41. | :29:50. | |
have got Dani King, Joanna Rowsell, Elinor Barker, and Katie Archibald. | :29:51. | :30:02. | |
There is also Laura Trott. How will that work? We will have to qualify | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
through different events for the World Championships. We have several | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
seasons to go through until we get to the Olympic year. Five riders is | :30:14. | :30:19. | |
the minimum that we can cope with. The competition within the team will | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
be fierce, because no one will want to demand five. Sir Chris Hoy | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
mentioned in his interview, the Olympics. It is remarkable, coming | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
from athletics, you have a four-year cycle. But the obsession within | :30:33. | :30:43. | |
cycling is overwhelming? It is not just the Olympics. We cherish our | :30:44. | :30:50. | |
world championship medals. The media builds up everything around the | :30:51. | :30:54. | |
Olympics. Funding is based on Olympic medals. As athletes, you | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
cherish this world championship titles. Does it get into the psyche | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
of the athletes. I want to win, but if I do not, it is still about the | :31:04. | :31:10. | |
Olympics? I am sure there have been arguments between the athletes and | :31:11. | :31:16. | |
the management. The management want to experiment, we do not care what | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
we do in the middle, but the athletes say, we want medals. It is | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
a tough call. You will be back tomorrow, Jamie Staff, Sarah, you | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
will not. What is on your radar for the next few months? Hopefully the | :31:31. | :31:37. | |
cycling team for the Paralympic track Championships will be | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
announced over the coming weeks. If that goes well, I will try and | :31:42. | :31:46. | |
defend my world titles. I am really excited to get going again. | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
Brilliant. Thank you for being with us. We will see you tomorrow. Before | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
then, we are on the red button from ten o'clock. We are online from a 20 | :31:57. | :32:05. | |
PM. We will have the conclusion of Laura Trott's omniums. In terms of | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
the football, this is what we have in store. That is all from us. It is | :32:12. | :32:24. | |
not often from British Cycling that you get a blank day with no medals. | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
That is what has happened. Hopefully better tomorrow. | :32:29. | :32:31. |