Keirin
Riders line up in the order shown. The first rider sprints at 3km, the next at 2.6km to go, then at 2.2km to go, then 1.8 then 1.4 then the last rider starts sprinting at 1km to go.
The first 3 riders progress to next round.
Here is the draw for the Quarter finals:
Heat 1
Alois Kankovsky - Czech Republic
Gregory Hendersen - New Zealand
Alex Rasmussen - Denmark
Brad Huff - USA
Aleksei Markov - Russia
Mahdi Sohrabi - Iran
Heat 2
Daniel Thorsen - Australia
Vasilis Anastopoulos - Greece
Jens Erik Madsen - Denmark
Mike Friedman - USA
Graeme Brown - Australia
Ben Swift - Great Britain
Heat 3
Said Haddou - France
Mark Cavendish - Great Britain
Tim Mertens - Belgium
Olaf Pollack - Germany
Timothy Gudsell - New Zealand
Piotr Zielinski - Poland
Heat 4
Iljo Keisse - Belgium
Nikolai Trusov - Russia
Zakkari Dempster - Australia
Theo Bos - Netherlands
Geraint Thomas - Great Britain
Peter Schep - Netherlands
Heat 1
Kankovsky, Hendersen, Rasmussen, Huff, Markov and Sohrabi.
Halfway round and Hendersen is looking good, he had a green moment. Its ended now but his lead is strong. Markov has just made his move with Sohrabi yet to go.
Hendersen still leads going round the final bend.
Huff has moved into second but both Rasmussen and Markov are on green moments. It looks over for Kankovsky while Sohrabi has nowhere to go and must go round the outside.
Hendersen stretches away to win, while Rasmussen takes 2nd, just ahead of Alois Kankovsky who fought back in the final straight. Huff faded to 4th, while Sohrabi ran out of meters but still grabs 5th ahead of a disappointing Markov.
1. Gregory Hendersen
2. Alex Rasmussen
3. Alois Kankovsky
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4. Bradley Huff
5. Mahdi Sohrabi
6. Aleksei Markov
Bradley Wiggins was brought in as a Derny, and the randomly generated order behind him was: Cavendish, Hendersen, Pollack, Rasmussen, Brown and Bos. But in the first attempt, Hendersen crashed taking down all 4 riders behind him and so for the 2nd attempt, he has been relegated to last place.
Wiggins led the 6 into the track before pulling off.
Cavendish went off fast as Pollock goes wide, handing a nice gap to Rasmussen.
There space too for Brown and Bos goes up the inside too - will he get cornered in though?
Cavendish then made a huge mistake, allowing Bos enough space on the inside and the Dutchman dived at it, elbowing his way through.
Bos starts to pull away and Cavendish must now watch out for Hendersen. Pollack, Rasmussen and Brown have no chance now.
And Theo Bos wins the Keirin!
Theo Bos Mark Cavendish Gregory Hendersen
4. Olaf Pollack
5. Alex Rasmussen
6. Graeme Brown
Edited by SportingNonsense on 16-12-2007 15:03
