Ireland's Felix English shocks Hoy in 1/16 finals

[timyone]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/hoy-adm ... limination

i cant find a video yet

[timyone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEKOhPvv ... r_embedded

[timyone]

[Karzie]

Hahaha, that look says it all....
Let's hope it doesn't rule him out of the olympics. I seem to remember he didn't race commonwealth games so he could make sure of getting the points here!

[timyone]

This is why he may have been surprised!


Morning Session
Men's Sprint Qualifying 1 Chris Hoy (Great Britain) 0:00:09.999
2 Kevin Sireau (France) 0:00:10.097
3 Roy Van Den Berg (Netherlands) 0:00:10.113
4 Damian Zielinski (Poland) 0:00:10.210
5 Michael D'Almeida (France) 0:00:10.221
6 Jason Kenny (Great Britain) 0:00:10.236
7 Robert Förstemann (Germany) 0:00:10.253
8 Tomáš Bábek (Czech Republic) 0:00:10.353
9 Denis Špicka (Czech Republic) 0:00:10.355
10 Carsten Bergemann (Germany) 0:00:10.381
11 Zafeiris Volikakis (Greece) 0:00:10.404
11 Denis Dmitriev (Russian Federation)
13 Andriy Vynokurov (Ukraine) 0:00:10.441
14 Adrian Teklinski (Poland) 0:00:10.445
15 David Alonso Castillo (Spain) 0:00:10.567
16 Pavel Yakushevskiy (Russian Federation) 0:00:10.580
17 Luca Ceci (Italy) 0:00:10.633
18 Juan Peralta Gascon (Spain) 0:00:10.635
19 Hugo Haak (Netherlands) 0:00:10.690
20 Artem Frolov (Ukraine) 0:00:10.750
21 Francesco Ceci (Italy) 0:00:10.765
22 Gediminas Petrauskas (Lithuania) 0:00:10.771
23 Clemens Selzer (Austria) 0:00:10.879
24 Felix English (Ireland) 0:00:11.046
25 Daniel Baldauf (Austria) 0:00:11.110
26 Miroslav Minchev (Bulgaria) 0:00:11.148
27 David Askurava (Georgia) 0:00:11.217
28 Miroslav Denev (Bulgaria) 0:00:11.886

[Karzie]

English didn't have enough respect to just give up and thought it was actually a race. Pretty sad result.

[rhys]

The track equivalent of attacking while your opponent's chain comes off.

[timyone]

Hang on who is it you think is showing the equivilant?

[Simon Llewellyn]

English didn't have enough respect to just give up and thought it was actually a race. Pretty sad result.

I think it is quite the opposite, Hoy didn't have enough respect to race his competitor to the finish line. Sign of arrogance, something that Hoy is not known for.

The track equivalent of attacking while your opponent's chain comes off.

I think Hoy would of been less embarassased if his chain did come off!!! Then at least he could blame his mechanic for the mistake!!

[timyone]

I thought karzie was being sarcastic, and that rhys must have been taking about hoy being in the wrong, just because some one gets a break on you doesn't mean you have to let them win, what sort of race would that be?
Yeah hoy wasn't showing any respect for his opponent. I would have looked around! (Lol at the last sprint carnival I did what hoy did in every race but one where I came from behind, but I made sure they weren't coming back!

[Karzie]

I thought karzie was being sarcastic

You got it, Tim

[shrubb face]

Hmm sarcasm doesn't always work on the internet. I for one didn't believe he was being sarcastic. The interpretation tends to be based on the readers perception and knowledge of the other person in the real world.

As for the Hoy issue, I think he just switched off earlier as he knew that he had the race one and was conserving energy for the next round. It was his own mistake for not keeping a continued eye on his competitor.

[Karzie]

It's not exactly sarcasm, it's just another way of looking at it. And anyway, Hoy said as much afterward as it turns out. Once he showed english he was beaten he expected him to pull up.

[simon.sharwood]

For me, Hoy's look says "Aren't you a bit old to have that many pimiples? Hang on ... "

[jbcow]

Hoy is usually magic to watch

[mikesbytes]

Tim, there's a chance you might beat Chris Hoy one day