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items: Olympics 2024 breaking on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
items: Olympics 2024 rhythmic gymnastics on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
items: Olympics 2024 wrestling on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
items: Olympics 2024 golf on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
items: Olympics 2024 boxing on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
items: Olympics 2024 artistic gymnastics on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
items: Olympics 2024 badminton on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
items: Olympics 2024 volleyball on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
items: Olympics 2024 hockey on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
items: Olympics 2024 football on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
items: Rio 2016 Olympic triathlon: a viewer's guide
items: Olympic track cycling: a guide to the Keirin
items: Olympic track cycling guide: the Omnium
items: Olympic Boxing: a viewer's guide
items: Olympic track cycling Individual and Team Sprint: a viewer's guide
items: Olympic track cycling Team Pursuit: a viewer's guide
items: Rio 2016 Olympic road cycling guide: how to watch the men's and women's time trials
items: Rio 2016 Olympic cycling guide: how to watch the men's and women's road races
items: How to watch the Olympic Track Cycling Omnium - a beginner's guide
items: How to watch the Olympic Track Cycling Keirin - a beginner's guide
items: How to watch the Olympic Track Cycling Team Pursuit - a beginner's guide
items: How to watch the Olympic Cycling Track Sprint - a beginner's guide

Olympics 2024 breaking on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
type: item
date: 2024-08-08T08:00:36.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: BBC
subject: discovery+
subject: Olympics
description: Your guide to breaking at the Olympic Games 2024, including TV coverage and schedule.
encoded: Breaking has had a long road to the Olympics, from its origins in 1970s hip-hop culture through to the earliest competitive events in the 1990s and its successful inclusion in the 2018 Youth Olympics, which made an official Olympic debut a certainty. The sport got its start in New York block parties, where DJs would mix multiple records in order to achieve a longer instrumental section. Enthusiastic dancers would use these extended breakdowns to show off increasingly technical and athletic moves, giving birth to a new style of dance and, eventually, a new sport. The term "breakdancer" has often been used to refer to someone who had appropriated the dancing without any interest in the surrounding culture, so purists prefer the term b-boy or b-girl. Check out our Olympics on today guide, including hand-picked highlights from Olympic gold medallists and experts There will be 16 b-boys and 16 b-girls competing in Paris, along with a DJ and MC providing the music. Dancers will face-off in one-on-one competitions, progressing through toprock, downrock, power moves and freezes - essentially a progression from fancy footwork through to momentum-gaining floor-based dances like the six-step, culminating in gymnastic feats such as the windmill. A panel of nine judges will operate a slider which is used to show a preference for the b-boy or b-girl they believe is putting in the best performance based on technique, variety, originality and musicality. An averaging of the slider scores will decide the winner of each one-on-one, with scoring weighted towards technique and creativity. RadioTimes.com brings you our guide to breaking at the Olympic Games in 2024. Don’t miss a minute of the Games with our complete 16-day Olympics TV Guide download, including how to watch all the action on TV, online, on catch-up and on the radio. Read more: Olympics TV coverage | Olympics radio coverage | Olympics presenters and commentators When is breaking at the Olympics 2024? Breaking at the Olymp…

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Olympics 2024 rhythmic gymnastics on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
type: item
date: 2024-08-07T05:00:28.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Olympics
description: Your guide to rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympic Games 2024, including TV coverage and schedule.
encoded: Rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympic level is contested solely by women, with athletes competing in individual and group competitions. Rhythmic gymnastics consists of floor routines, which combine dancing, jumping and rotating to music while using either clubs, hoops, ribbons or balls to accentuate the performance. Separate panels of four judges mark the competitors on difficulty, artistry and execution, with the scores from each panel being averaged and combined to find the winner. Check out our Olympics on today guide, including hand-picked highlights from Olympic gold medallists and experts Judges will be looking out for what are known as "dynamic elements of rotation", which are essentially the hardest moves that can be made with a given piece of apparatus, such as throwing the ribbon into the air, performing a series of moves, then catching it again on one fluid motion. In the group competition, apparatus can be passed between the competitors, allowing for eye-catching synchronised moves. The group routines can last for up to 150 seconds, and individual routines for up to 90, with penalties being imposed for going over time, poorly executing moves, or failure to use the apparatus properly. RadioTimes.com brings you our guide to rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympic Games in 2024. Don’t miss a minute of the Games with our complete 16-day Olympics TV Guide download, including how to watch all the action on TV, online, on catch-up and on the radio. Read more: Olympics TV coverage | Olympics radio coverage | Olympics presenters and commentators View Green Video on the source website When is rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympics 2024? Rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympics begins on Thursday 8th August and runs until Saturday 10th August. Team GB rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympics 2024 Team GB will only be competing in the artistic and trampoline disciplines, but the rhythmic competition still has plenty of action to look out for. In the individual competition, Italy’s Sofia…

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Olympics 2024 wrestling on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
type: item
date: 2024-08-04T05:00:26.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Wrestling
subject: BBC
subject: discovery+
subject: Olympics
description: Your guide to wrestling at the Olympic Games 2024, including TV coverage and schedule.
encoded: One of the oldest sports in the world, and a mainstay of the Olympics, wrestling is divided into two types - Freestyle and Greco-Roman for the men, and Freestyle for the women, with each type having six weight divisions. In Greco-Roman wrestling, it is forbidden to attack your opponent’s legs, making competitors rely on upper-body and hip strength to flip and throw their opponents. Freestyle wrestlers, on the other hand, can make swift attacks on their opponents' legs for speedy takedowns. Points are awarded for throws, holds and takedowns. If a wrestler achieves a 10-point lead over their opponent in Freestyle, or eight points in Greco-Roman, then they will win by a "Technical Fall", the wrestling equivalent of boxing’s TKO. A more immediate win can be achieved by successfully pinning your opponent to the mat, automatically ending the match. Check out our Olympics on today guide, including hand-picked highlights from Olympic gold medallists and experts Historically, there were no time limits on matches, leading to the infamous 1912 Olympic match in which it took 11 hours for the victor to achieve the necessary winning margin. Fortunately, these days, matches are limited to two three-minute rounds. RadioTimes.com brings you our guide to wrestling at the Olympic Games in 2024. Don’t miss a minute of the Games with our complete 16-day Olympics TV Guide download, including how to watch all the action on TV, online, on catch-up and on the radio. Read more: Olympics TV coverage | Olympics radio coverage | Olympics presenters and commentators When is wrestling at the Olympics 2024? Wrestling at the Olympics begins on Monday 5th August and runs until Sunday 11th August. Team GB wrestling at the Olympics 2024 Sadly, there are no British wrestlers participating in Paris 2024, but there are still plenty of exciting matches to watch out for. Hot prospects include former bronze medallist and current world No. 1 Amir Zare of Iran and silver medallist Geno Petriashvili of Georgia…

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Olympics 2024 golf on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
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date: 2024-07-31T05:00:19.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Golf
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Olympics
description: Your guide to golf at the Olympic Games 2024, including TV coverage and schedule.
encoded: After a 100 year absence, golf returned to the Olympics in 2016, when Team GB’s Justin Rose won gold. He won’t be playing this time, but plenty of big names have qualified in the top 60 Official Golf World Rankings that decide Olympic eligibility. Countries cannot send more than 4 competitors no matter how many players they have in the top 60, and some countries Olympic committees won’t send a player unless they’re a realistic medal prospect. Check out our Olympics on today guide, including hand-picked highlights from Olympic gold medallists and experts The 120 qualified players in the men’s and women’s events will play four rounds of 18 holes over four days, with a sudden death playoff for a tied score in any of the medal positions. The competition will be held at Le Golf National, France’s national golfing centre on the outskirts of Paris. The centre contains two separate full size courses and is the traditional venue for the French Open, as well as having hosted the Ryder Cup in 2018. RadioTimes.com brings you our guide to golf at the Olympic Games in 2024. Don’t miss a minute of the Games with our complete 16-day Olympics TV Guide download, including how to watch all the action on TV, online, on catch-up and on the radio. Read more: Olympics TV coverage | Olympics radio coverage | Olympics presenters and commentators View Green Video on the source website When is golf at the Olympics 2024? The men’s golf competition will start on Thursday 1st August and run until Sunday 4th August, with play starting at 8am UK time each day. The women’s golf competition will start on Wednesday 7th August and run until Saturday 10th August, with play starting at 8am UK time each day. Team GB golf at the Olympics 2024 Team GB will send Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick to compete in the men’s event, and Charley Hull and Georgia Hall in the women’s. Hall is tipped as strong medal prospect for Team GB, although she’ll need to be at her best to win gold, while Fitzpatrick has expe…

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Olympics 2024 boxing on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
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date: 2024-07-27T05:00:53.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Boxing
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Olympics
description: Your guide to boxing at the Olympic Games 2024, including TV coverage and schedule.
encoded: An Olympic medal has lit the fuse on a vast number of boxing’s celebrated careers – Lennox Lewis, Sugar Ray Leonard, Muhammad Ali, Nicola Adams and Claressa Shields are just a few of the many names who’ve capped their amateur careers with a gold medal before turning professional and becoming world champions. As such, Olympic boxing has a double-layer of excitement - not only is it the pinnacle of amateur boxing, but it’s usually an early glimpse of the names that will be dominating the sport for the next decade. Check out our Olympics on today guide, including hand-picked highlights from Olympic gold medallists and experts Hard fought Olympic qualifying tournaments have taken place in Poland, Italy and Bangkok, and if all that weren’t gruelling enough, the IOC have had to remove one of the eight male weight divisions in order to accommodate a sixth weight division for the women, an entirely correct logistical decision, but one that has hotly increased the competition for the more limited spaces in the teams, as well as potentially creating some David-and-Goliath match ups. Matches will be fought over three 3-minute rounds for the men, and four 2-minute rounds for the women. Although the bar on professionals competing at the Olympics was lifted in 2016, comparatively few took part in Rio and Tokyo, and none will be present in Paris. RadioTimes.com brings you our guide to boxing at the Olympic Games in 2024. Don’t miss a minute of the Games with our complete 16-day Olympics TV Guide download, including how to watch all the action on TV, online, on catch-up and on the radio. Read more: Olympics TV coverage | Olympics radio coverage | Olympics presenters and commentators View Green Video on the source website When is boxing at the Olympics 2024? Boxing at the Olympics begins on Saturday 27th July and runs until Saturday 10th August. Team GB boxing at the Olympics 2024 Team GB has managed to qualify six fighters for the games, including returning Tokyo participant Charle…

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Olympics 2024 artistic gymnastics on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
type: item
date: 2024-07-26T05:00:55.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: BBC
subject: discovery+
subject: Olympics
description: Your guide to artistic gymnastics at the Olympic Games 2024, including TV coverage and schedule.
encoded: Artistic gymnastics consists of a series of individual competitions in various disciplines, as well as a team competition. Gymnasts showcase their technical skills across a range of equipment - vaulting horse, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercises for the women, while the men compete across the pommel horse, vaulting horse, rings, parallel bars and the horizontal bars. The competition will take place inside the grassy, pyramidal walls of the Bercy centre, and will begin with nerve-wracking qualifiers in which competitors will need to balance the complexity of the routines against the duration of the event - peak too soon and there’s nothing left to wow the judges in the final; keep too much in the bag and they may not qualify. Check out our Olympics on today guide, including hand-picked highlights from Olympic gold medallists and experts Gymnasts are no longer scored using the traditional 10-point system, which is now seen as lacking nuance. Instead, judges will assess the athletes moves using separate Difficulty and Execution scores. The D score starts at zero, and points ranging from 0.1 to 1.0 are awarded to the moves the gymnast incorporates into their routine. The E score, meanwhile, starts at 10 and has points deducted. The D and E scores are then combined to decide the winners. RadioTimes.com brings you our guide to artistic gymnastics at the Olympic Games in 2024. Don’t miss a minute of the Games with our complete 16-day Olympics TV Guide download, including how to watch all the action on TV, online, on catch-up and on the radio. Read more: Olympics TV coverage | Olympics radio coverage | Olympics presenters and commentators View Green Video on the source website When is artistic gymnastics at the Olympics 2024? Artistic gymnastics at the Olympics begins on Saturday 27th July and runs until Monday 5th August. Team GB artistic gymnastics at the Olympics 2024 One of Team GB’s strongest hopes is Jessica Gadirova, who helped Team GB win their first team …

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Olympics 2024 badminton on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
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date: 2024-07-26T05:00:52.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: BBC
subject: discovery+
subject: Olympics
description: Your guide to badminton at the Olympic Games 2024, including TV coverage and schedule.
encoded: The badminton competition in Paris 2024 will consist of men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles, and a mixed doubles competition. Games will take at the newly opened Porte de la Chapelle Arena, with each game played to the best of three sets, with a set won by the first player or pair to reach 21 points. Badminton is one the most dynamic sports at the Olympics, with slow, defensive lobs suddenly giving way to frantic flurries of volley shots or powerful smashes. There will be 172 places for qualifying athletes, with nations allowed to enter a maximum of eight players across the five competitions. Check out our Olympics on today guide, including hand-picked highlights from Olympic gold medallists and experts China is the dominant nation in world badminton, and they are likely to pick up medals in all competitions, particularly with defending women’s champion Chen Yu Fei. They may not get it all their own way, however, as Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen is the defending men’s Olympic champion and current world No. 1, not to mention the top qualifier for Paris 2024. RadioTimes.com brings you our guide to badminton at the Olympic Games in 2024. Don’t miss a minute of the Games with our complete 16-day Olympics TV Guide download, including how to watch all the action on TV, online, on catch-up and on the radio. Read more: Olympics TV coverage | Olympics radio coverage | Olympics presenters and commentators View Green Video on the source website When is badminton at the Olympics 2024? Badminton at the Olympics begins on Saturday 27th July and runs until Monday 5th August. Team GB badminton at the Olympics 2024 Team GB have qualified three players for the badminton competition - Ben Lane and Sean Vendy in the men’s doubles, and Kirsty Gilmour in the women’s singles. All three have Olympic experience, with Lane and Vendy having competed in Tokyo, while Gilmour has previously competed at Rio and Tokyo. Although none of the trio have yet achieved a medal at the Olympics…

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Olympics 2024 volleyball on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
type: item
date: 2024-07-26T05:00:29.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: discovery+
subject: Olympics
description: Your guide to volleyball at the Olympic Games 2024, including TV coverage and schedule.
encoded: The traditional indoor version of volleyball may not attract as much attention as its sandy sibling outdoors, but it’s no less exciting. A frantically-paced team sport, volleyball sees opposing teams of six trying to score by landing the ball on the other side of the net. When the ball is in play, teams can take no more than three touches before launching the ball over the net, and no player may take two consecutive touches. These touches can be used to manoeuvre the ball into a good scoring position, or to set up an aggressive downward hit called a spike, which is a common means of scoring. Check out our Olympics on today guide, including hand-picked highlights from Olympic gold medallists and experts Players can also feint, pretending to set up a spike when, in fact, they have a different strike in mind. In an average game, each player can end up making nearly 300 vertical leaps in attempt to score or defend, making it an extremely energetic sport. The competition is divided into the qualifying round, when teams are split into three groups and must play everyone else in their group, with the eight highest-ranked teams from the group stage moving into a knockout phase of quarters, semi-finals, finals and bronze medal matches. RadioTimes.com brings you our guide to volleyball at the Olympic Games in 2024. Don’t miss a minute of the Games with our complete 16-day Olympics TV Guide download, including how to watch all the action on TV, online, on catch-up and on the radio. Read more: Olympics TV coverage | Olympics radio coverage | Olympics presenters and commentators View Green Video on the source website When is volleyball at the Olympics 2024? Volleyball at the Olympics begins on Saturday 27th July and runs until Sunday 11th August. Team GB volleyball at the Olympics 2024 Britain has only competed in the volleyball competition once, in 2012, when they qualified automatically as host nation, and they won’t be competing in Paris. The USA and Brazil are the traditiona…

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Olympics 2024 hockey on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
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date: 2024-07-26T05:00:13.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: BBC
subject: discovery+
subject: Olympics
description: Your guide to hockey at the Olympic Games 2024, including TV coverage and schedule.
encoded: Played by two teams of 11 players, hockey is one of the fastest and most exciting Olympic sports. The astroturf pitch is watered, primarily to make it less abrasive for the players, but this has the added effect of increasing the speed of the ball and producing dramatic geysers as players strike, flick, hook and push the ball. Gender equality is a notable feature of hockey, both globally and at the Olympics, with a 50/50 split between genders for both the athletes and the officials: 12 men's teams and 12 women’s teams will compete across a pool stage followed by knockout quarter- and semi-finals. In addition to the eventual gold medal matches, there will also be bronze medal matches for the defeated semi-finalists. Check out our Olympics on today guide, including hand-picked highlights from Olympic gold medallists and experts Matches take place over four 15-minute quarters, with players attempting to reach the D-shaped shooting area from which goals can be scored. The armoured goalkeeper is the only player on the pitch who is allowed to touch the ball with their body, while all outfield players can only use their stick. Penalties can be awarded for fouls in the shooting area, and in the later knockout stages, can also be used to decide a tied game. RadioTimes.com brings you our guide to hockey at the Olympic Games in 2024. Don’t miss a minute of the Games with our complete 16-day Olympics TV Guide download, including how to watch all the action on TV, online, on catch-up and on the radio. Read more: Olympics TV coverage | Olympics radio coverage | Olympics presenters and commentators View Green Video on the source website When is hockey at the Olympics 2024? Hockey at the Olympics begins on Saturday 27th July and runs until Friday 9th August. Team GB hockey at the Olympics 2024 Team GB is sending two experienced teams, with no fewer than four of the women’s team having been part of the gold medal-winning team at the Rio Olympics, including captain Hollie Pearne-Webb…

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Olympics 2024 football on TV: Channel, schedule, live stream
type: item
date: 2024-07-24T09:33:57.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Football
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Olympics
description: Your guide to football at the Olympic Games 2024, including TV coverage and schedule.
encoded: With an identical game format to traditional FIFA competitions, it can be difficult at first to see what separates Olympic football from the usual international game. Look a little closer, however, and the differences become apparent - the squad size is limited to 18, forcing some hard choices on management. More importantly, for the men’s competition, there is an age limit of 23 for all but three players in the squad, skewing the competition towards up-and-coming players rather than allowing nations to simply field their national sides. Check out our Olympics on today guide, including hand-picked highlights from Olympic gold medallists and experts As such, the Olympics is a place to see football stars of the future, with the likes of Ferenc Puskas, Ronaldo and Lionel Messi all having represented their countries. RadioTimes.com brings you our guide to football at the Olympic Games in 2024. Don’t miss a minute of the Games with our complete 16-day Olympics TV Guide download, including how to watch all the action on TV, online, on catch-up and on the radio. Read more: Olympics TV coverage | Olympics radio coverage | Olympics presenters and commentators View Green Video on the source website When is football at the Olympics 2024? Football at the Olympics begins on Wednesday 24th July and runs until Saturday 10th August. Team GB football at the Olympics 2024 Unfortunately, there will be no Team GB football teams at the Olympics in 2024. Because there are separate football associations in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, with only England’s being affiliated with the IOC, it has traditionally been difficult for a GB team to take part in Olympic football. As hosts in 2012 a team was put together, but before and after that Team GB has largely chosen not to compete in men’s Olympic football, while the women’s team failed to qualify for the 2024 tournament. Olympics 2024 football on TV You can tune in to watch every single minute of every event live on discovery+ through…

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Rio 2016 Olympic triathlon: a viewer's guide
type: item
date: 2016-08-20T09:40:00.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Athletics
subject: News
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Olympics
description: A challenging route and some notable absences make the Olympic triathlon an unpredictable event – can Team GB's women match the Brownlee brothers' win this Saturday?
encoded: Britain’s Brownlee brothers stormed to victory in the men's Olympic triathlon race – now it's the turn of Team GB's women. Expect to see a lively battle this Saturday between the favourite, Gwen Jorgenson of the USA, and contenders including GB’s Helen Jenkins, Switzerland’s Nicola Spirig and Sweden’s Lisa Norden. What time is the Olympic triathlon on TV? The women’s triathlon race will be held on Saturday 20th August from 3pm on BBC1, the BBC Sport website and the Red Button. What is the Rio 2016 triathlon course like? The event will start with a 1.5km swim off the Copacabana beach, followed by eight laps of a 5km bike circuit and a final 4 laps of a 2.5km beachfront loop. As with all multi-discipline events, the key to success is leveraging your strengths in your stronger discipline while defending in your weaker events, but unlike the heptathlon or omnium, there’s an added edge to triathlon, as each event flows into the next without a break. View oEmbed on the source website Traditionally gaps between groups of contenders open in the swim and it’s said that triathlons, although not won in the swim, are often lost there. The run is also seen as pivotal, as a good performance there can make up a lot of lost ground. In Rio, however, there are some unusual complications – the bike route features several tight, technical corners and two significant hills. The added difficulty of the bike course could make it the key to the whole event, as it will now favour competitors who are good across all fields, as opposed to specialists. Who are the ones to watch? In the women’s event the swim is seen as crucial. Gwen Jorgenson is the Triathlon World Series champion and is extremely strong in the run. Viewers might be deceived at first: she’s traditionally slow in the transition between bike and run, with a tendency to go gently in the early kilometres, but when she’s ready she can increase the pace very quickly. It’s widely believed that her rivals will need around a minute adv…

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Olympic track cycling: a guide to the Keirin
type: item
date: 2016-08-16T19:00:00.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Cycling
subject: News
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Olympics
description: Wondering why there's a motorbike on the cycling track? You need our guide to the wonderfully wacky Keirin...
encoded: The Keirin is one of track cycling’s delightfully eccentric events, in which riders are paced up to speed behind a special motorbike before launching their attacks from top speed in the final 600 metres. It’s a race that is dominated by sprinters and often features a little illicit roughhousing as riders jostle for position. The Derny Keirin racing starts behind a pace bike known as a Derny. Combining a small engine with a traditional bicycle’s pedals-and-chain drivetrain, it’s capable of precisely controlled acceleration and deceleration, which makes it ideal for pacing riders up to speed. The Derny was traditionally used as a pacer in road cycling’s longer single-day events, such as the 560Km Bordeaux-Paris, but as those races fell out of favour the Derny became a fixture at track events where it’s now used to start the Keirin. The Derny rider sits bolt upright to provide a windbreak for the following riders as the Derny gradually accelerates from a cruising speed of about 30kph up to a decidedly taxing speed of around 50kph before pulling aside two-and-a-half laps from the finish of the eight-lap race. The Race Not only do the riders have to keep pace with the accelerating Derny, they also have to manoeuvre for position behind it. Having been paced up to speed, Keirin riders will be able to launch incredibly fast attacks for the line once the Derny peels off. Some riders favour an immediate attack from directly behind the Derny, while cagier riders prefer to carefully time their sprint so that they can accelerate just as the riders in front start to fade. The Contenders Britain’s Becky James has two bronze and one gold medal in the Keirin from the World Championships, and will be riding in the Olympics for the first time – she considers her main rivals to be Germany and Australia, most likely represented by Kristina Vogel and Anna Meares. Jason Kenny, meanwhile, will likely find himself pitted against World Champion Joachim Eilers, and New Zealand’s Eddie Dawkins…

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Olympic track cycling guide: the Omnium
type: item
date: 2016-08-16T19:00:00.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Cycling
subject: News
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Olympics
description: The race that's six events in one - scratch race, individual pursuit, elimination race, time trial, flying lap and points race
encoded: The Omnium is track cycling’s multi-discipline event, similar to a heptathlon for cyclists. It takes place over two days and starts with a scratch race, followed by an individual pursuit and an elimination race. The following day will see riders compete in a time trial, a flying lap and the points race. The mixture of sprint and endurance events means that rider’s positions in the standings can vary wildly as each event plays to different strengths.The order of events and point scoring system has been simplified since London 2012 – riders now accrue points over the course of the first five events with 40 points for first place, 38 for second, and so on down to 21st place and below, which earns a single point. The accumulated score is then used as a sort of head start in the final event, the Points Race, where riders will score extra points in a sprint every ten laps, or for lapping the field. Team GB’s Laura Trott is the defending Olympic champion and current World Champion at the Omnium. In the men’s event, former World Road Race champion and 2011 Tour de France Green Jersey winner Mark Cavendish will be hoping to nab a gold medal, to complete his stellar collection of palmares. The Scratch Race The scratch race is the equivalent of the bike races you’ll remember from when you were a kid. No points, stopwatches or eliminations, just a race over 16 or 10 kilometres for the men and women respectively. Riders with a short, sharp turn of speed will hope to keep the race in one piece for a bunch sprint, while endurance riders will attempt to escape off the front of the pack, posing a dilemma for the riders behind. A rider who escapes and is caught won’t have the energy to try again, but a rider who chases an escapee must be careful not to exhaust himself before the final sprint. The Individual Pursuit The Individual Pursuit sees riders starting on opposite sides of the track and attempting to chase each other down. You’ll be able to see both sides of the track in splits…

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Olympic Boxing: a viewer's guide
type: item
date: 2016-08-16T17:40:00.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Boxing
subject: News
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Olympics
description: Everything you need to know about the controversial new rule changes, Team GB's medal hopes, other fighters to look out for and exactly how the scoring works
encoded: Rule changes and controversy Few sports have changed more than boxing in the space of a single Olympic cycle. Rio 2016 will see boxers fighting without head guards and using the “10-point must” scoring system from professional boxing (more below), rather than the traditional count of punches landed cleanly used in amateur boxing. The event will also be open to professional boxers for the first time, a cumulative set of changes that makes Olympic boxing difficult to distinguish from the professional sport, although matches will still be significantly shorter. Fans of the changes say it will allow the biggest names in the sport to add a gold medal to their laurels, and will put an end to the mismatches seen when countries which prohibit professional sports field mature, experienced fighters against younger amateurs from western nations, like when 17 year old Amir Khan lost to 33 year old Mario Kindelan at Beijing in 2004. It also makes it easier for medallists from previous Olympics to return and defend their medals, an opportunity taken up by Great Britain’s Nicola Adams in the women’s boxing. Critics believe that it will simply increase the number of meetings between amateur and professional boxers, leading to a greater number of dangerous mismatches. The British Boxing Board of Control has criticised the change, and two of the professional sport’s governing bodies, the IBF and WBC, have threatened a variety of sanctions against professionals who compete. The upshot is that while a number of professional fighters have qualified, they are all young fighters rather than the superstars of the sport. Weight categories There are ten weight categories for the men, ranging from light flyweight to super heavyweight, and three for women – flyweight, lightweight and middleweight. Team GB Great Britain is sending 12 fighters, its largest team of boxers for 32 years, and has set a target of three to five medals for the boxing team. In addition to defending champion Nicola Adams…

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Olympic track cycling Individual and Team Sprint: a viewer's guide
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date: 2016-08-14T18:30:00.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Cycling
subject: News
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Olympics
description: As GB's Jason Kenny hits the Velodrome to defend his Olympic gold, Jamie Ewbank tells us what to look out for in the team and individual events
encoded: Britain’s track team has evolved in the four years since London: Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton have retired, while Jess Varnish was controversially not selected for Rio. There are still plenty of familiar faces however – current World Champion Jason Kenny will be defending his 2012 gold medal in the Individual Sprint, as well as competing alongside Phillip Hindes and Callum Skinner in the Team Sprint. Given the simple banked oval of the track, the gearless bikes and the sheer size of a track sprinter’s thigh muscles, you would be forgiven for thinking that track sprinting is less nuanced than road cycling. But while athleticism certainly plays a significant role in track cycling, tactics will still be as important as pure power... The Individual Sprint The riders will qualify with a 200m flying lap that ranks them before the eliminations begin. The fastest rider is matched against the slowest, second fastest against the second slowest, until the final eight competitors will face each other in best-of-three competitions of three laps each. This is where the tactics come into play. The rider who starts on the inside line has the best route around the track, but will be forced to lead and won’t be able to see when their opponent starts their attack. Slower riders will try to keep the pace low for as long as they can so that their faster rivals don’t have the time to get up to their top speed once the dash for the line begins. Faster riders might try to swoop down the banked track to gain a little extra acceleration, but such moves are just as likely to be a crafty feint designed to panic their rival into attacking sooner than they want to. Sometimes riders will come to almost a complete halt, known as a track stand, in an attempt to lure their rivals through to the front or blunt their impending acceleration with a standing start. Amid all this cat-and-mouse riders also have to contend with the difficulty of controlling the bike on the banked track. On the strai…

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Olympic track cycling Team Pursuit: a viewer's guide
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date: 2016-08-11T05:00:00.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Cycling
subject: News
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Olympics
description: How and why do the riders change places on the track? Who are the main contenders? And can Team GB's men and women defend their London 2012 titles?
encoded: The most beautiful event in track cycling is the Team Pursuit, which combines speed and endurance with complex manoeuvres as teams compete to outdo each other over a distance of four kilometres. The race For viewers it’s a particularly enjoyable spectacle, as the teams start on opposite sides of the track and pursue each other over 16 laps. A dominant performance will see one team visibly gaining ground on the other, while a more hard fought battle will see teams appearing to maintain almost identical track positions, with only hundredths of a second between them. If the teams seem to be flashing across the top and bottom of your TV screen at the same time, then you’re witnessing a really tight battle, but if you’re watching one catching up with the other then you’re seeing one team perform astonishingly well. The riders start from positions spread up the banking and quickly fall into a line, with the rider closest to the inside of the track having the delicate task of attaining top speed as quickly as possible without burning his or her teammates off their back wheel. Once the team is riding at full speed, each member will take it in turn to do a lap or a lap-and-a-half at the front, before attempting an inch-perfect manoeuvre: swinging up the banking to allow the following riders through, before dropping back down into the rearmost position. This way, the riders alternate between the tough leg-work at the front and the benefit of riding in their teammates' slipstream at the back. If the returning rider drops back into line too late it will be almost impossible to close the gap in time for their next turn on the front. Teams will often burn one rider off entirely, having them put in an extra, sacrificial effort to keep the pace high, as the time recorded is based on the third rider to cross the line. The favourites The need to attain maximum speed and perfect synchronisation makes the Team Pursuit one of the most difficult disciplines in track cycling. Team GB are …

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Rio 2016 Olympic road cycling guide: how to watch the men's and women's time trials
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date: 2016-08-10T08:00:00.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: News
subject: Sport
subject: TV
description: Everything you need to know about the road time trial races live on the BBC this Wednesday 10 August
encoded: After the controversial, crash-filled Rio 2016 cycling road race comes the men's and women's time trials. Tour de France winner Chris Froome rides for GB again, as does fellow GB rider Geraint Thomas, who crashed out dramatically in the final descent of the men's road race. In the women, Emma Pooley rides for Britain, joining a field that includes road race winner and time trial favourite Anna Van der Breggen. She's aiming to becoming the first rider, male or female, to win both the Olympic road race and time trial at the same Games. Here's everything you need to know. When is the Rio 2016 Olympic time trial live on TV? Both races take place on Wednesday 10th August. The women's race starts at 12.30pm, scheduled to be live on BBC2. The men's race starts at 2pm, set to be live on BBC1. What is the course like? Both races use much of the same circuit used during the road race, with both the Grumani and Grota Funda climbs making an appearance here. The men do two laps of the course, a total distance of 54.6km, while the women's race is one lap totalling 29.9km. At the weekend, BBC commentator Chris Boardman criticised the course after women's race leader Annemiek van Vleuten suffered a horrible crash just before the finish. View oEmbed on the source website How does the time trial work? The Time Trial is known as the “race of truth”, but for most practitioners it’s actually a race of uncertainty. Riders set off individually and attempt to set the fastest time for the course. The general rule is that if you’re going at a pace you’re certain you can sustain to the finish then you’re not working hard enough to win. The ideal time trial is ridden alone, in a state of anxiety. Because each rider sets off alone there’s no opportunity to nestle in the slipstream of other riders and stay out of the wind, which makes aerodynamic equipment vitally important for time triallists. Riders wear one-piece skinsuits without seams or creases in order to minimise drag, and a finned helme…

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Rio 2016 Olympic cycling guide: how to watch the men's and women's road races
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date: 2016-08-07T07:40:00.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: Cycling
subject: News
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Olympics
description: Chris Froome and Lizzie Armitstead lead Team GB's big for road cycling glory, but what else do you need to know before watching the cycling road race live on the BBC?
encoded: Team GB’s first medals of the Olympics might well be awarded at the men’s and women’s road races, which take place on Saturday 6th August and Sunday 7th August live on the BBC. With three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome, reigning World Champion Lizzie Armitstead and up-and-coming talent Adam Yates in the team, Great Britain has a shot at early medal success, but it won’t be easy. Here's a viewer's guide to watching the Rio 2016 road cycling on TV. When is the Rio 2016 Olympic road race live on TV? Coverage of the men’s road race starts from 1:30pm on Saturday 6th August on BBC1 and BBC4. The women’s road race begins at 4:15pm on Sunday 7th August on BBC1 and continues on BBC4. What is the course like? The Rio road race route is a very different creature to the London course. Among other challenges the 237km men’s race features three ascents of the Vista Chinesa, a short but very steep climb with a maximum gradient of 14% (compared to Box Hill’s 4% slopes in 2012). This, combined with a short 30km run-in from the top of the final summit to the finish, means that the heavily-muscled sprinters who will struggle to get their weight up the climb will have almost no time to catch up on the way to the finish. The favourites It’s the lighter, nippier climbers who are expected to contest the finish: GB's Chris Froome, Italy’s 2014 Tour de France winner Vincenzo Nibali, and Spain’s hilly one-day race specialist Alejandro Valverde are the most likely medal candidates. Strong all-rounders like Geraint Thomas, Steve Cummings and Poland’s Michal Kwiatkowski could also put their big engines to use if they can hold on over the climbs. But the revelation of this year’s Tour de France, Bury lad Adam Yates, could be a good outsider bet to cause an upset: crowned the best young rider in Paris last month, this steep, choppy course could suit his strength. The women’s event will cover 141km over the same route, but with fewer laps of the start and finish circuits. 2012 silver med…

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How to watch the Olympic Track Cycling Omnium - a beginner's guide
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date: 2012-08-04T11:53:00.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: News
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Olympics
description: In its first Olympic year, a rundown of the six events that make up cycling's version of the heptathlon, plus how the scoring works and who's in contention
encoded: The Omnium is track cycling’s multi-discipline event, similar to a heptathlon for cyclists, and is making its Olympic debut in London. Riders will compete over six different events and their placing in each event will be their points score: one point for first place, two for second and so on. At the end of the six events, the winner is the rider with the lowest overall score. Team GB’s Ed Clancy and Laura Trott have both been Omnium World Champions, and will be entering the event on a high: Clancy has already won a gold medal in the Team Pursuit, and Trott has set a World Record in the women’s Team Pursuit. The Omnium takes place over two days and starts with a flying lap, followed by a points race and an elimination race. The following day will see them compete in a scratch race, an individual pursuit and a kilometre time trial. Both Team GB riders excel at the individual events which take place against the clock, and will use them to gain advantages that they can defend in the melee of the mass start races. The Flying Lap The flying lap will see riders given two-and-a-half laps to wind themselves up to their top speed in time for the third lap, on which they’re timed. The Points Race The points race sees the riders covering a distance of 30km on the track (20km for the women’s event). Every ten laps a bell is rung, and the riders sprint for the line in an attempt to score points for crossing the line first. Some riders will attempt to save their strength and jostle for position in between the bell laps, while others will try to score a massive 20 point bonus for lapping the field. The Elimination Race Formerly known as “Devil Take The Hindmost”, the Elimination race sees the last rider in the field eliminated after every second lap, and is a strong event for GB’s Laura Trott. Riders at the front will try to maintain a steady pace so they can’t be overhauled, while riders at the rear will fight a desperate battle not to be in last place on the vital laps. This can …

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How to watch the Olympic Track Cycling Keirin - a beginner's guide
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date: 2012-08-03T13:16:00.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: News
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Olympics
description: Wondering why there's a motorbike on the cycling track? You need our guide to the wonderfully wacky Keirin...
encoded: The Keirin is one of track cycling’s delightfully eccentric events, in which riders are paced up to speed behind a special motorbike before launching their attacks from top speed in the final 600 metres. It’s a race that is dominated by sprinters and often features a little illicit roughhousing as riders jostle for position. The Derny Keirin racing starts behind a pace bike known as a Derny. Combining a small engine with a traditional bicycle’s pedals-and-chain drivetrain, it’s capable of precisely controlled acceleration and deceleration, which makes it ideal for pacing riders up to speed. The Derny was traditionally used as a pacer in road cycling’s longer single-day events, such as the 560Km Bordeaux-Paris, but as those races fell out of favour the Derny became a fixture at track events where it’s now used to start the Keirin. The Derny rider sits bolt upright to provide a windbreak for the following riders as the Derny gradually accelerates from a cruising speed of about 30kph up to a decidedly taxing speed of around 50kph before pulling aside two-and-a-half laps from the finish of the eight-lap race. The Race Not only do the riders have to keep pace with the accelerating Derny, they also have to manoeuvre for position behind it. Having been paced up to speed, Keirin riders will be able to launch incredibly fast attacks for the line once the Derny peels off. Some riders, such as the reigning Olympic champion, Team GB’s Sir Chris Hoy, favour an immediate attack from directly behind the Derny. Cagier riders prefer to carefully time their sprint so that they can accelerate just as the riders in front start to fade. The Contenders Sir Chris Hoy is the favourite by a wide margin: he has won four World Championship and one Olympic Gold medals in the Keirin, although he will face competition from France’s Mickael Bourgain and Germany’s Maximilian Levy. In the women’s event, old rivals Victoria Pendleton and Anna Meares are among the favourites for a medal, as are China…

How to watch the Olympic Track Cycling Team Pursuit - a beginner's guide
type: item
date: 2012-08-03T10:30:00.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: News
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Olympics
description: Speed, endurance and complex manoeuvring combine in the most elegant of the track cycling formats, says Jamie Ewbank
encoded: The most beautiful event in track cycling is the Team Pursuit, which combines speed and endurance with complex manoeuvres as teams compete to outdo each other over a distance of four kilometres for the men and three kilometres in the women’s event. The race For viewers it’s a particularly enjoyable spectacle, as the teams start on opposite sides of the track and pursue each other over 16 or 12 laps. A dominant performance will see one team visibly gaining ground on the other, while a more hard fought battle will see teams appearing to maintain almost identical track positions, with only hundredths of a second between them. If the teams appear to be flashing across the top and bottom of your TV screen at the same time, then you’re witnessing a really tight battle, but if you’re watching one catching up with the other then you’re seeing one team perform astonishingly well. The riders start from positions spread up the banking and quickly fall into a line, with the rider closest to the inside of the track having the delicate task of attaining top speed as quickly as possible without burning his or her teammates off their back wheel. Once the team is riding at full speed, each member will take it in turn to do a lap or a lap-and-a-half at the front before attempting an inch-perfect manoeuvre: swinging up the banking to allow the following riders through, before dropping back down into the rearmost position. If the returning rider drops back into line too late it will be almost impossible to close the gap in time for their next turn on the front. The favourites The need to attain maximum speed and perfect synchronisation makes the Team Pursuit one of the most difficult disciplines in track cycling. In the men’s event, defending Olympic champions Great Britain are likely to do battle with the current World Champions, Australia. The women’s Team Pursuit is new to the Olympics, but has been a World Championship event since 2008. Team GB’s women are not only the reigning Wor…

How to watch the Olympic Cycling Track Sprint - a beginner's guide
type: item
date: 2012-08-02T13:53:00.000Z
creator: Jamie Ewbank
subject: News
subject: Sport
subject: TV
subject: Olympics
description: As GB's Victoria Pendleton, Jess Varnish, Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny hit the Velodrome, Jamie Ewbank tells us what to look out for in the team and individual events
encoded: Tonight’s Sprint and Team Sprint finals at the Olympic Velodrome will give us our first inkling of whether the British track cycling team can repeat the incredible success it had in Beijing, where they won 11 medals, including seven golds. The riders Britain’s track team has evolved in the four years since Beijing: Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish are now concentrating on road racing, while Sir Chris Hoy will be contesting the Team Sprint and Keirin, but not defending the gold medal he won in the Individual Sprint. That honour will go to Jason Kenny, the current World Champion and silver medallist from Beijing. Victoria Pendleton will defend her Individual Sprint gold medal from Beijing, and compete alongside newcomer Jess Varnish in the newly introduced Women’s Team Sprint. The tactics Given the simple banked oval of the track, the gearless bikes and the sheer size of Sir Chris Hoy’s thigh muscles, you would be forgiven for thinking that track sprinting is less nuanced than road cycling. Although athleticism plays a significant role in track cycling, tactics will still be as important as pure power. - The Individual Sprint The riders will qualify with a 200m flying lap that ranks them before the eliminations begin, the fastest rider is matched against the slowest, second fastest against the second slowest, until the final eight competitors will face each other in best-of-three competitions of three laps each. This is where the tactics come into play. The rider who starts on the inside line has the best route around the track, but will be forced to lead and won’t be able to see when their opponent starts their attack. Slower riders will try to keep the pace low for as long as they can so that their faster rivals don’t have the time to get up to their top speed once the dash for the line begins. Faster riders might try to swoop down the banked track to gain a little extra acceleration, but such moves are just as likely to be a crafty feint designed to panic their r…

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