Sentences with phrase «tryingthe team pursuit»

Heading into the Turin Games, Davis had left the door ajar to tryingthe team pursuit (though he had never publicly committed to participating).

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..

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.

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.

The cyclist's first Olympic medal came 12 years earlier when winning team pursuit bronze in Sydney.

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.

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.

Day one in Hong Kong also saw the men's team pursuit team qualify for the bronze medal race on Thursday, while the women qualified fifth fastest in their event.

He won his first Olympic medal in the individual pursuit at Beijing 2008 before following that with team pursuit gold in 2012 and 2016.

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.

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.

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.

Behind these Olympic giants, there's a lot of quality, not least Dani King and Laura Trott, who took the world Team Pursuit title alongside Houvenaghel earlier this year.

16:53: Cycling — Track: Gold: Laura Trott, Joanna Rowell Shand, Elinor Barker, Katie Archibald — Team pursuit

Chris Newton is a track cyclist who won team pursuit silver in 2004 after winning bronze in the event in Sydney four years earlier.

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.

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.

And his then - fiancée Laura was certainly not going to miss out on the fun, defending her team pursuit and omnium crowns, with world records aplenty on the track and her way to two more gold medals.

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.

Earlier in the evening, both team pursuits squads enjoyed successfully qualifying rides with the women in particular in blistering form, setting a new world record with their opening effort at Rio 2016.

The GB coach is overseeing seven riders in Minsk, Belarus, consisting of three defending team pursuit champions — Ed Clancy, Steven Burke and Andy Tennant.

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.

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.

Rowsell, Olympic gold medallist in the women's team pursuit and reknowned individual pursuiter recorded a time 16 seconds quicker than Armitstead on the opening lap and nearly doubled that gap by the time she finished the 49 - minute test.

As well as being crowned Olympic Champion in the women's team pursuit in Rio last year, Archibald is a former champion in the same event at the World Championships (2014) and European Championships (her debut in 2013 and then again in 2015).

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.

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Part of a new - look team pursuit squad in Hong Kong, Barker is also set to compete in the points race and Madison.

A three - time European Champion in the team pursuit, Barker has increased her focus on the individual events since Rio, winning gold in the Track World Cup points race in the Netherlands in November.

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.

Trio of cycling medals for England on the track, with silver in the men's team pursuit and team sprint and bronze in the women's team sprint

Already an Olympic Gold medallist in GB's team pursuit in Rio — the rider is keen that cycling's troubled past is behind it.

This is only my second senior national title - the first one was in the team pursuit.

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.

Women's Team Pursuit First Round, Finals — Laura Trott, Joanna Rowsell Shand, Ciara Horne, Katie Archibald, Eleanor Barker

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.

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.

Ciara Horne, Amy Roberts and Elinor Barker were awarded Outstanding Performance of the Year sponsored by Cardiff Metropolitan University for their team pursuit gold medal success at the 2014/2015 UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Guadalajara alongside Laura Trott.

The final went even better for the British quartet, as they executed a catch of their Dutch opponents to claim a second team pursuit bronze medal for Great Britain.

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The women's team pursuit squad, after setting the third fastest time in qualifying on Wednesday, rode their first round heat against second fastest qualifiers Poland.

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There were silver medals for the women's team pursuit and men's team sprint squads, while Jack Carlin earned a fantastic individual sprint silver and Mark Stewart took home bronze in the men's points race.

@teamgb with @bradwiggins smashed the world record to land gold in the team pursuit last night, so thought I'd create the @rio2016 velodrome out of toast whilst the kettle boiled.

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.

Not exact matches

Spend time figuring out how each individual on the team can do both, instead of taking the lazy way out by simply repressing individuality in the pursuit of the collective.