Cycling thread!

[Alibabaandthe40nappies]

Yay Vicky and Jess - they beat the Aussies!

I applied for tickets for this. Humph.

Bloody exciting though.

Ooof. Can they restart?

What on earth is happening? Surely they can't disqualify them.... 4 years of training, a world record in the heat and then DQ.... I think I may cry for them.

I fon't understand. Why are the DQd? Can anyone explain?

:(

for our women.

They have to change rider part way through within a set part of the track. Victoria Pendleton was a little bit too early.

It's just so upsetting.

Noooooooo.

for the women

The BBC website has crashed so can't keep up with what's happening. How are the men doing?

Heats still ongoing so can't tell yet but they are in a strong position.

I just can't believe poor Jess Varnish goes home now after all that hard work.

Come on boys

World Revord!!!!!!

World record for the boys in qualifying!

Record!!!!!

Can I just be shallow and say I quite fancy that Mark Cavendish?

And now the Chinese women have been disqualified for the same reason that Team GB was, so Germany win gold by default!

I'm off to Google pics of Mark Cavendish as I don't know what he looks like

He's on BBC right now being a pundit. He's actually not particularly good at it, but I will let him off that.

Lula you are in for a treat!!:o

What happened? Just switched over from gymnastics.

Hmm, probably wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating biscuits...

Now china too and one of them stomped out apparently. As Chris boardman said though rules are rules (even if we don't like them if they get gb athletes dq'd).
C'mon the lads now!!!!!

Ah she has comeback to get her medal.

You'd have to get past me first Lula

Apparently they need to put big obvious marks on the track so they know when to swap! Feel sorry for China, too.

Cav looks a little awkward punditting.