Worlds Notes * "My goal was to break the record, and I did it," said Shane Kelly (Australia). * Kelly also commented: "The track I was practicing on was a bit like a goat track so this one was easy by comparison. It was a bit slippery down the back straight, I felt my rear wheel moving about a bit. It still hasn't sunk in. I still can't believe it." * Jose Maria Lovito of Argentina, Marcelo Beneton of Italy and Toshimasa Yoshioka of Japan went down together during a 200-meter race. Dr. Norman Norato said Beneton and Yoshioka, who were taken away with braces immobilizing their upper spinal columns, probably broke their collarbones. Lovito injured an elbow, possibly breaking his arm.
Men's Keirin, First Round
Heat 1
1. Marty Nothstein, U.S, 10.606 seconds
2. Emanuel Raasch, Germany
3. Mario Benetdh, Italy
4. Toshimasa Yoshioka, Japan
5. Alan Irvin, South Africa
6. Walter Ramsay, Bahamas
Heat 2
1. Cristian Marcelo Arrue, Chile, 10.897
2. Nikolai Kovch, Russia
3. Brian Dandanell, Denmark
4. Trey Gannon, U.S.
5. Barry Forde, Barbados
6. Lambros Vassilopoulos, Greece
John Jaime Gonzalez, Colombia, disqualified
Heat 3
1. Federico Paris, Italy, 11.031
2. Falvio Guidoni, Argentina
3. John Rastrick, New Zealand
4. Lars Brian Nielsen, Denmark
5. Yuji Yamada, Japan
6. George Himonetos, Greece
7. Jean-Pierre Van Zyl, South Africa
8. Johny Hoyte, Bahamas
Women's 200 meters sprint, quarter-finals, first heats. Felicia Ballanger (France) beat Kathrin Freitag (Germany). 11.733 seconds. Olga Slioussareva (Russia) beat Mira Kasslin (Finland). 11.816. Connie Paraskevin-Young (United States) beat Erika Salumae (Estonia). Salumae disqualified. Galina Enioukhina (Russia) beat Ingrid Haringa (Netherlands). 11.953. Note: best of three heats, winners of each heat qualify for the semi-finals. Men's individual pursuit, 4 kilometers, semi-finals. Andrea Collinelli (Italy) (04:22.265) beat Stuart O'Grady (Australia) (4:23.637) Graeme Obree (Britain) (4:22.917) beat Philippe Ermenault (France) (4:25.634). Note: two heat winners qualify for the final. Women's 200 meter sprint, quarter-finals, second heat. Ballenger beat Freitag. 11.574. Ballanger qualifies for semi-finals. Slioussareva beat Kasslin. 11.713. Slioussareva qualfies for the semi-finals. Salumae beat Paraskevin-Young. 11.622. Enioukhina beat Haringa. 11.248. Enioukhina qualifies for the semi-final. Men's Olympic sprint, first round. Colombia (Cesar Zapata, Oscar Fernandez, Gabriel Diaz) (1:03.469) beat Cuba (Gil Cordoves, Julio Cesar Herrera, Joel Gelabert) (failed to finish) Argentina (Flavio Guidoni, Jose Lovito, Angel Dario Colla) (1:01.367) beat South Africa (Alan Irvin, Sean Bloch, Jean-Pierre Van Zyl) (1:03.364) United States (Harry Gannon, Erin Hartwell, William Cla) (59.370) beat Russia (Alexei Zinoviev, Alexandre Kirichenko, Sergei Bohantcev) (1:00.937) Germany (Soren Lausberg, Michael Hubner, Jan Van Eiden) (59.696) beat Spain (Jose Moreno, Jose Escudero, Isaac Galvez) (1:00.670) Italy (Roberto Chiappa, Frederico Paris, Gianluca Capitano) 1:01.235 beat Japan (Noaki Arisaka, Keiji Kojima, Nariharo Inamura) (failed to finish) France (Herve Thuet, Benoit Vetu, Florian Rouseau) (59.889) beat New Zealand (Darren McKenzie-Potter, Jason Bruce Graig, John Rastrick) (1:01.465) Trinidad-Tobago (Clinton Grant, Michael Phillips, Gene Samuel) (1:02.260) beat Bahamas (Barron Musgrove, Randy Albury, Johnny Hoyte) (1:10.416) Note: Germany, United States, France, Spain, Argentina, Italy, Russia and New Zealand qualify for the quarter-finals. (Eight best times regardless of race.) Women's 200 meters sprint, quarter-final, third heat. Salumae beat Paraskevi-Young. 11.678. Salumae qualifies for semi-finals.
or presented differently;
* "It was very hard," said Obree. "I didn't know I had won until I crossed the finish line and saw the clock. He (Collinelli) is very difficult to race against, he keeps coming back at you." * Regarding his slow winning time, Obree said: "The atmosphere was not so good after the rain and the temperature dropped very quickly."
Women's sprint, semi-finals.
First heat:
Enioukhina beat Ballanger. 11.796.
Slioussareva beat Salumae. 11.680.
Second heats:
Ballanger beat Enioukhina. 11.764
Slioussareva beat Salumae. 11.206. Slioussareva qualifies for the final.
Third heat
Ballanger beat Enioukhina. 11.624. Ballanger qualifies for final.
Men's Olympic sprint, quarter-finals.
Germany (59.232) beat Argentina (1:01.191)
U.S. (59.358) beat New Zealand (1:02.182)
Spain (59.837) beat Russia (1:01.118)
France (58.834) beat Italy (59.960)
Note: France and Germany (two fastest heat winners) qualify for the final.
U.S. and Spain qualify for the third-place race.
Women's 200 meters sprint, final.
First heat: Slioussareva beat Ballenger (11.923)
Second heat: Ballenger beat Slioussareva (11.491)
Third heat: Ballanger beat Slioussareva (12.048). Ballanger wins gold medal.
Third-place race.
First heat: Salumae beat Eniovkhina (12.564)
Second heat: Salumae beat Eniovkhina (11.928). Salumae wins bronze medal.
Doyle Retires
Tony Doyle (Britain), former world champion, announced his retirement
from racing today (Wednesday). Doyle's decision was influenced by a back
injury he suffered in a six-day crash last November.
"My decision was also motivated by the fact that British cycle sport
seems to be going nowhere. There is obviously a need for someone with my
kind of experience to try to do something about it," Doyle said. He plans
to seek election as president of the British Cycling Federation in
December.
Reports Day One
Individual Pursuit Quarterfinals
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*Ermenault vs. McGee*
For some reason, McGee has not started. Ermenault is alone on the track,
but he still rides the distance to provide a time for seeding in the next
round. Boardman is here commentating for Eurosport. The German commentator
passes along his remark that in the first qualifying round the people
seemed to be going out too fast. Ermenault goes about 1:10 for the first
1km, and ends up 4:30, 3 seconds slower than his qualifying.
*Obree vs Martinez*
Obree looks to get off to his normal slow start, turning a huge gear, but
he has definitely improved since his first title in 93. He comes through
almost even, 0:05 seconds back. Obree is stretched out in a superman
position, Martenez in a more normal position. After 1 km, Obree is still
about a half second back, also about 1:10. Martinez is holding on to his
slight lead as they approach the halfway point, but in the last lap Obree
comes a little ahead. Now Obree starts to really pour it on. From being
about even at 2km, he is now up about 3 seconds after 3 km, and it goes
quickly to 4 seconds. Obree is turning in a definitely better time than in
qualifying. Last lap -- Obree comes through at 4:25.
*O'Grady vs. Pieters*
This should be an easy win for O' Grady. They are off. Pieters on a
"normal" track bike, O'Grady on a white carbon fiber creation, both with
disks on the rear. Pieters immediately gets a slight lead, and opens it up
a little, 1.2 seconds at 1km. But O'Grady starts to close the gap, and it
is almost even after 1.5km. And he is up by a half second before the half
way point. O'Grady continues to build, after 3km it seems pretty clear that
only a collapse would keep him out of the next round, but O'Grady's time is
clearly slower than Obree's. Last round, O'Grady at 4:07, and comes through
at 4:29. Pieters closes a little in the last 1km and comes in about 2
seconds behind.
*Collinelli vs. Petersen*
Collinelli was 7 seconds faster in qualifiers at 4:24. They're off, at the
first time check, Petersen is .6 seconds back. Collinelli opens it to 1.5
seconds in just two laps. The 1km time is 1:09, faster than the earlier
rounds. Petersen fades further behind, now almost 5 seconds before the
halfway point. Collinelli comes through 2km 1 second faster than Obree.
Collinelli is coming up fairly close behind Petersen, but seems to be
slowing a touch. He passes Petersen with a couple of laps to go, so
Petersen gets 7th place. Collinelli finishes out the time fairly easily at
4:25, slightly behind Obree.
Women's Match Sprints--Round of 16
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*Kasslin (FIN) vs Ballanger (FRA)*
Ballanger leading out, she comes to a stop, and the two sit there, looking
at each other. The Finn has proved she can track stand too, and the French
woman takes off slowly again. They come around slowly, and on the steepest
part of the track the Finn slips and slides down the track. No harm done
but to her pride.
2nd ride: Kasslin on the front, again a very slow, tactical match, but no
track stand this time. Kasslin is down on the blue line, something wrong
with the bike. The bell rings, but she doesn't sprint. It's unclear what
was wrong, something with the pedal maybe, but it seems it may not be
something that warrants a reride. Ballanger is declared the winner.
*Sliouseveva, sp? (RUS) vs Freitag (GER)*
Sl on the front, she picks up the pace quicker than the sprint before,
Freitag a couple lengths back. The come to the last lap, Freitag comes by
below, Sl is simply faster and just blows here away in the last 100m. Sl by
1:0.
*Paraskevin-Young (USA) vs Faure (FRA)*
Faure leads, and there's a relatively quick pace in the first lap. P-Y
stays a length or two behind. They come to the last lap, Faure picks up the
pace, and not out of the saddle, but P-Y goes by up above and easily opens
up a gap for the win.
*Eniovkhina (RUS) vs Jiang (CHI)*
Jiang leading, quite quick for the first laps, but Eniovkhina stays tucked
in behind her wheel. Last lap -- Jiang tries to keep the pace high, but
Eniovkhina easily comes by in the last 50m to advance another round.
*Haringa (NED) vs. Ferris (AUS)*
Ferris on the front, then picks up the pace. Haringa comes by as they come
to the last lap, she leads it out, Ferris on her wheel. She tries up on the
track, but Haringa has too much speed and easily comes to the line about a
bike length ahead.
*Salumae (EST) vs. Dubnicoff (CAN)*
Looks like the best match of the round, both have been champions in the
sprints before. Salumae on the front, starting slowly on the bottom of the
track. Now Salumae leads up, and into a track stand. Dubnicoff goes by
without much hesitation. Into the last lap, Salumae high on the banking,
Dubnicoff jumps low on the track and gets a gap, but Salumae closes and
then comes by on the top and crosses with a decent gap.
Keirin Semi-finals
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*Heat 1*
Nothstein and Hubner meet in this heat, Hubner apparently working his way
back in after his crash in the first round. Lots of sweeping going on
before they start the heat, but they flash the startlist very quickly,
sorry for not getting it.
They're off. Nothstein again goes out to take the lead, but the Argentine
also wants it, as does the Japanese rider. Argentina in first, then Japan
then Nothstein and Hubner.
The Chilean comes up and tries to slide into second. Nothstein comes out
from behind his wheel, then the Italian comes on the outside, and Nothstein
gets out behind him.
The moto pulls off. Nothstein is on the front. There is a big crash behind.
Nothstein leads it out, the Chilean on his wheel, then Hubner. Hubner comes
above, Nothstein and Hubner go for the win, but both slow a little, since
it is only the heats. Hubner wins by a wheel. Hubner was actually quite
lucky to avoid the crash, he was behind it, but avoids by going high on the
banking. A pretty nasty crash, all in all. A couple are stretchered off.
*Heat 2*
Parris, Magnien, Moreno, Gannon, Raasch among the starters. The moto comes
by, Gannon in second, a green jersey in first, but I still haven't figured
out who it is. Raasch in third. They string out behind. Gannon comes up on
the banking a little, slides back in.
The moto pulls off, and Moreno shoots from the back right as it does,
Moreno is an excellent kilo rider and he gets a huge gap. No one is chasing
at all and Moreno wins easily, but we don't see the sprint for the other
places. Now the very end on the replay -- looks like Magnien, Parris,
Raasch, make the other places in the final.