... Hoy was brilliant! respect ... I'll never understand why this classic track event was dropped when it generates so much excitement for everybody concerned.
It seems strange that this seems to be the best quality video of an event only 20 years ago, but thank you craydee1975. I have watched this many times. Sport at it's best. I will always remember meeting friends that night, in Madrid. None of us knew we had been watching it before we went out, but as soon as we came together all we could speak aboout was that event. So many wonderful memories since then of Chris Hoy. Fight again, Champion. You don't lose.
Sport at its purest,who is the fastest.The Olympic motto is Higher Faster Stronger,so why take this out of the games. Its so simple a concept anyone can understand and enjoy it.
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what annoys me is that because britain dominated at beijing, they removed events that we excelled in and restricted each country to applying one athlete for each disclipline and win you come to swimming you have a guy that has the opportunity to win 8 medals in a single olympics not to mention you have usa with 3 athletes in each final, its stupid.
James Wood.. This is true & yet the attempt to thwart GB failed because they repeated Beijing by winning 7 of the 10 races in London (& went onto win 6 of 10 in Rio).
Your head begins to pound and throb, and you feel unsteady as you begin to go past your anaerobic threshold. In the last 250 meters, it feels as if you are pedaling in a thick goo, and the only thing keeping you going is the preparations you made over the previous months. That, and pure guts, drive, ambition, and passion for the event. See what I mean about it being much more than a burn in the legs? It is the toughest minute a person will ever experience! My fastest time, in 1979, was 1:07
@@John-dh1gh My team mates and I would train on a grass athletic field near our homes. Grass is a tough surface to ride. To do what you did would make you a legend.
It was scrapped ahead of Beijing in 2008. It was the making of Hoy really. The kilo is a very specialised event and I suspect if it had stayed on in 2008 and 2012 Hoy could have won a gold in each one - but would never have attempted the team sprint, sprint and keirin triple as he did in 2008, or the double as he did in 2012 (tried for the triple but Jason Kenny was picked ahead of him for the Games).
Look at how many medals have been awarded in the swimming so far! Its crazy that such a massice sport as cycling is so restricted in the olympics If it was me Id have 10mile TT, hilly road race, flat road race. 1KM TT, and a whole host of track events back on
@BMWraptor Completly agree. The excuse about too many competitors and events is rubbish. The people who compete in the Kilo will be in the Team Sprint as well. Also the same case with the Pursuit events.
Aido, it's more than a burn in the legs. As a young man, I was a kilo specialist. the start is brutal on the machine, and the risk of crashing is ever present. Then, you stand on the pedals, pounding your guts out to the third turn. Then, you have to try to remember to control your breathing, and keep pedaling. As you go into the last 500 meters, your legs begin to rebel, burning with lactic acid, your lungs begin to feel like you are breathing fire, and you begin to get tunnel vision.
What kind of gear combinations are these guys using? It looked like Hoy had a very small large cog up front. I'm thinking he must have a really small rear cassette.
They wind up that big gear pretty fast off the line! I'm alright at higher revs but work better with a lower gear to start. I'd love to see how well these guys launch on a geared bike!
@craydee1975 exactly. Those guys have more disciplines and will be there anyway. Those disciplines have great tradition and its big shame they are removing them... Pursuit events where absolut classic. 1km is also huge classic for me. They can add new competitions, but its stupid it must be payed this way- by removing something else..
Gear ratios just dont allow them to go any faster over all. If they had a lower ratio they could accelerate quicker, though their top end would be slower as they would spin out almost immediately. If they had a larger ratio, the acceleration would be closer to the sprints, where it starts slowly and top end speed is higher.
Full disc is more aero but heavier and therefore slows acceleration. A tri-spoke wheel is lighter but less aero - a rider would choose the wheel that results in their fastest kilo.
HANENG18 you need to watch the whole thing. Each successive rider was faster, breaking world and Olympic records. Meaning the pressure on Hoy, and the performance needed from him increased hundredfold as the day progressed: not least because he was the highest seed and thus the final rider of the day.
