Men's Sprint 1/16 Final Repechages - London 2012 Olympics
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Published 2012-08-04
Highlights of the Men's Track Sprint 1/16 Final Repechages during the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Cycling is among the rare sports that have always featured on the Olympic programme. Road cycling, however, was not on the programme of the Paris 1900, St Louis 1904 or London 1908 Games, while track cycling wasn't in the programme of the Stockholm 1912 Games.
The first road event in Olympic history took place in 1896 on the marathon route at the first Games of the modern era in Athens. The race started in Athens, headed towards Marathon, then returned to Athens, at the Phaliron velodrome.
Olympic cycling was added to the women's programme in Los Angeles in 1984, with an individual road event.
Find more about Road and Track Cycling at www.olympic.org/cycling-road and www.olympic.org/cycling-track
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All Comments (21)
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Breakdown for those who don't understand: Basically for the first lap they just try to ride slowly and scare the opponent, then after the first lap, one of them can sprint whenever they like, the reason they don't sprint straight away is to conserve energy. Occasionally they will try to trick the opponent by doing sudden movements or flinching to make them think that they are attacking. After one of them attacks, the other rider must chase them and its a sprint to the finish line. Hope that helped.
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Judging by the initial speed of the race I almost thought I could compete in the Olympics for a minute.
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Became interested in bike races after windbreaker. After this video, I kinda feel inspired to get on my bike again
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"I may have lost the race this year, but I've been training hard, getting slower and slower, and next year I think I may be slow enough to win."
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They are riding slow because they don't want to be the leader. This is the Olympic's , so any small advantage is considered the difference between gold and silver. The leader is in the bad position. Even though this is a sprint the leader is actually taking most of the wind impact from being first. By being seconds behind the leader the leader can take most of the wind and the second rider will have a lot easier time riding. Close near the end the guy in the second position will attempt to out pedal the leader after he already took all force from going high speeds. In theory the second rider will have more energy to out pedal the leader.
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Who watched this and had no idea what was going on
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Am I one of the few people who actually searched for this?
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I was reading "wind breaker" so kinda wanna watch actual cycle race
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once again, the Youtube algorithm has brought us all together.
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Omg this sport is fascinating! I like that they are analyzing each others move! Im binge watching olympics athletics and its the first time i come across this sport.
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This is the weirdest mating ritual Iβve ever seen
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This is one of the greatest form of dueling EVER. The focus and patiance is intense!! My new fav sport!!
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i still didn't got the rulles... but its fun to watch anyway
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Even after reading the comments, I don't really understand?! What the heck is going on?
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The situation at the beginning is that the two are actually fighting over who starts second. With such a small burst, aerodynamics is necessary to win, so usually the winner is the person who started behind and drafted off the leader. They're going slow to try and bait each other into accidentally sliding into the lead position
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I'm here because of Windbreaker
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The tactics are always hilarious to watch
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if it wasn't for Windbreaker i would have never searched this up lmao
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I'm watching cycling for the first time.. and i just realised this is more entertaining than IPL, NBA and EPL ...
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I was watching curling videos and somehow got here but all the Olympic Games are cool to watch
