"Team pursuit" refers to a type of race or competition, usually in sports like cycling or speed skating, where a group of athletes work together as a team to chase or pursue a common goal or target. They cooperate and take turns leading the team, using their combined strength and strategy to achieve success.
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That forces the defense to commit to stopping both the run and the pass and makes tactics like gang tackling and
team pursuit more difficult.
Part of a new - look
team pursuit squad in Hong Kong, Barker is also set to compete in the points race and Madison.
He won his first Olympic medal in the individual pursuit at Beijing 2008 before following that with
team pursuit gold in 2012 and 2016.
Chris Newton is a track cyclist who won
team pursuit silver in 2004 after winning bronze in the event in Sydney four years earlier.
Barker - part of the victorious British
team pursuit quartet in Rio - secured gold in the women's points race with a dominant display which saw her gain a lap on the field and consistently challenge during the sprints to win by six points from Japan's Minami Uwano.
Last Wednesday, in the quarterfinals of the new
team pursuit event, Italy eliminated the U.S. trio of Hedrick, KC Boutiette and Charles RyanLeveille.
The three -
team pursuit of Berahino was over before it had started as West Bromwich Albion batted away bids from Newcastle United and Stoke City, and Tottenham Hotspur never came to the party.
She was the first to three
after team pursuit gold while also on the track Jason Kenny in the keirin will attempt to equal Sir Chris Hoy's tally of six Olympic titles.
The GB coach is overseeing seven riders in Minsk, Belarus, consisting of three
defending team pursuit champions — Ed Clancy, Steven Burke and Andy Tennant.
Having first been spotted by British Cycling as a schoolgirl, she won her
first team pursuit World Championship title four years later, in 2008, alongside Wendy Houvenaghel and Rebecca Romero.
As well as choosing who grabs the four
team pursuit places, Newton will also be selecting riders in the omnium, individual pursuit, scratch, points and Madison disciplines from February 20 - 24.
There was still time for King to launch an attack that stretched the reduced bunch, before the London 2012
team pursuit champion brought Deignan to the front to contest the sprint finale.
(L to R) Denis Yuskov, Ivan skobrev and Aleksandr Rumyantsev of Russia compete during the Men's
Team Pursuit Quarterfinals Speed Skating event on day fourteen of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Adler Arena Skating Center on February 21, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
Heading into the Turin Games, Davis had left the door ajar to
tryingthe team pursuit (though he had never publicly committed to participating).
Elsewhere, not even a broken wrist could stop Katie Archibald from adding World Cup gold to an already - glittering 12 months, the
Olympic team pursuit gold medallist and Six Day London champion enjoying UCI Track Cycling World Cup success with Elinor Barker.
Appointed an MBE in 2013, Rowsell Shand won her fourth
European team pursuit title two years later, before retaining her Olympic title at Rio 2016 alongside Kenny, Katie Archibald and Elinor Barker.
Kenny, Hindes and Callum Skinner will bid for glory in the team sprint as track cycling starts at the Games with the men's and women's
team pursuits also in qualifying action.
Sir Bradley Wiggins became the most decorated Team GB athlete of all time with
team pursuit victory, while Helen Glover and Heather Stanning retained their London 2012 gold and the men's coxless four won for a fifth Games in a row.
Kenny, Philip Hindes, and Callum Skinner clocked a new Olympic record to claim the first track cycling gold medal of the Games in the same night the women's
team pursuit squad broke their own world record.
And Cummings, who won
team pursuit silver at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, was content with his display despite failing to secure a top - ten finish that would have sealed Great Britain a second spot in next year's Olympic time trial.
The 24 - year - old defended both her omnium and
team pursuit titles from London, completing the latter in style to win by 24 points.
But those aren't the only three with realistic gold medal hopes on day seven, Laura Trott leads Team GB's women's
team pursuit quartet on the track in the velodrome hoping to become the first British female to win three Olympic titles.
That was not her only success in 2016 with scratch and omnium gold, plus
team pursuit bronze, at the World Championships in London in March.
February 21, 2018 • On Wednesday, U.S. long track skaters won bronze in the women's
team pursuit event — the first Olympic medal since 2010.
The aim is to open her road season at the Tour of the Reservoir on April 11, although King,
team pursuit gold medalist at London 2012, admits next year's Olympics are not far from her mind.
The home crowd were delighted with the French team's ride in the men's
team pursuit qualifying, as the quartet set the fastest qualifying time, a full four seconds quicker than their nearest rivals.
Davis's supporterscountered that because
the team pursuit was new to the Games, any talk of theU.S.
TEAM PURSUIT: Brent Emery, Milwaukee; Dave Grylls, San Diego; Pat McDonough, Long Beach, Calif.; Mark Whitehead, Whittier, Calif..
With the 12 pm (BST) medal session seeing
the team pursuits and men's keirin reach their conclusion, as well as the men's scratch race and women's sprint quarter - finals.
But with Manning now switching over to coach the men, Newton, who had previously overseen the British Cycling men's Olympic Academy Programme and coached the men's
team pursuit to silver at the 2013 Track World Championships, has stepped into the breach.
The 29 - year - old returns to the Great Britain team for the first time since the European Championships in October where he won bronze in
the team pursuit.
«It's a fight to get into the squad and when you have eight riders fighting for four places for
the team pursuit and then fighting for the omnium place it does bode well for the future.
Wiggins has won an incredible eight Olympic medals in total, with the most recent coming at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games - a gold in
the team pursuit with Ed Clancy, Steven Burke and Owain Doull.
Archibald, who won Olympic gold as part of
the team pursuit squad in Rio this August, said: «My legs felt good.
«I've really enjoyed it actually - I wasn't looking forward to the points race - after three days doing
the team pursuit as well yesterday it really did take it out of me and I was worried how I was going to feel.
Page's silver adds to another successful day for Team GB at the Games following the two rowing golds won on the Lagoa, the men's
team pursuit squad retaining their title and dressage team silver.
16:53: Cycling — Track: Gold: Laura Trott, Joanna Rowell Shand, Elinor Barker, Katie Archibald — Team pursuit
«Everyone was down about yesterday (after
the team pursuit defeat), but I came out today and I was determined to fight.
He was a reserve for Team GB's gold medal - winning
team pursuit outfit at London 2012 and also won the world title in the team pursuit in the same year.
2014 was another huge year for Andy, winning silver at the Commonwealth Games alongside Sir Bradley Wiggins in
the team pursuit and following it up with his fourth gold at the European Championships.
He has a gold medal from the 2005 World Championships in
the team pursuit and gold in the points race in 2002.