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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Did you enjoy the track cycling? London 2012

Photo from http://london2012.olympics.com.au/ and courtesy of Phil Walter/Getty Images

The world has stopped. Or so it seems. It is Olympic time if you didn't realise. For those of you into all things sports it is a time of salivation, for those of you who aren't it can be a torturous two weeks.

For me I am not hugely into the Olympics, there are a few sports that I like to watch; the swimming, rowing, some of the athletics, and of course the cycling - road and track.

The road events were over pretty quickly being placed in the first few days of the Olympics and last night the track cycling wrapped up with Aussie Anna Meares taking a Gold medal in the Sprint and Annette Edmonson Bronze in the Omnium.

The Aussies have had a less than successful Olympics which the Australian media has had a field day with, and the track cycling has been no different. We have certainly been outclassed in a lot of the events with the Brit's thoroughly taking advantage of their home town crowd (and enormous budget, and talent pool yes,) to ride brilliantly.

I must admit although I love the track cycling, I haven't been able to stay awake to watch it in the early hours of the morning. Who's idea was it to have the Olympics in the Northern Hemisphere??? So I have been following the action on Twitter and the Australian Olympic site to catch up each morning.

I did make it up this morning to see Sally Pearson take Gold for Australia in the 100m women's hurdles. Did you see that? Now that was a close one. Well done Sally!

And it was great to wake up to the news that Anna Meares had taken the Gold in the Sprints on the velodrome against none other than Brit Victoria Pendleton. Vicky is amazing but our Anna, even more so. If you don't know the Anna Meares story you must read it now.

So well done to Anna, Annette, and all our other cyclists on the track - you have done us proud. You have competed at the Olympics and medal or no medal that is something that the majority of us will never, ever experience.

Did you enjoy the track cycling?

1 comment:

  1. Oh i cried when Anna won & when she mentioned that Victoria finally said something nice to her, it was my favourite Olympic moment for sure!! Love Posie

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