Team Pursuit for Mick, with Tom Fahey, Brian Peterson & Roger Rilling. We have spent months practicing for this, including a weekend with Roger Young at the LA Velodrome. Today was the real thing, and we exceeded our own expectations, with a 5th place finish in 4:37 (which would have gotten us 3rd place last year, by the way). Our technique was pretty outstanding, until we made a final kilometer bobble. Brian pulled off a heroic effort to pull us back together, and Roger drilled it for the last 1 1/2 laps to bring it home. Fortunately the podium went five deep!
Individual pursuit tomorrow.
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Did it look better than this?
http://www.geocities.com/nslckevin/usps_82.jpg
:-)
After Dave had a few Dove Bars he was flying in the final ;-)
1996 Olympic Trials- qualifying ride, 3rd overall. L-R Kevin Metcalfe, Mane Rodriquez, Dave Bailey, Larry Nolan
Dave's report:
http://www.daveb.net/reports/tp1996/
BTW, that's R-L for the order you listed.
Well none of us had a foot on the ground during the start. On the other hand you were faster than us, and you were on concrete.
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