the biggest losers.

not theo, that much is clear. where is the rider i love to watch so much?

disappointment of the games so far, for me anyway.



i don't hold anything against jennie reed for not nabbing a medal as "america's best hope" on the track... sure she is the world champion, but in the keirin.

i know they are both sprint events, but still the keirin and the match sprints are pretty different.
reed had an uphill battle the whole time if you asked me.

and, what's up with the coverage? pretty slim.
(i mean from our troops on the ground, i didn't expect nbc to come thru for me).
youtube is light on beijing track racing, i expected the track aficionados to be uploading all night every night.

i did find this keirin heat from round one. you can see nsc golden boy roberto chiappa qualify, only to be dq'd later.
you can see him get flicked way high, by the japanese rider nagai, which opened the door for ross edgar who had been pretty seriously boxed in. chiappa comes back down into the sprinters lane on top of the japanese rider.
right on top of him.
all but on nagai's bike. roberto earns the dq. can't blame him, only the top 2 move on. so if there is a chance the judges won't call it you aren't really any worse off.

edgar went on to take the silver medal. i think the owes the japanese team a cookie.