Cycling king Kenny bows out on a high after storied Olympic career

Rider Obituary: In the early hours of Thursday the 30th of November 2023, one of Italy's greatest track cyclists died. Sante Gaiardoni passed away at the age of 84 in Motta Visconti, Lombardia. Gaiardoni was a prolific winner in the 60's and was famous for taking two Olympic gold medals in the Games of 1960 in Rome. Double Olympic champion - Santi…

The World Aquatics Swimming World Cup competition this week is being held in the same venue that housed water polo at the 2004 Olympics. Warm-up sessions for the meet were held at the outdoor pool that hosted swimming. Although none of the athletes in attendance competed at the 2004 Olympics, many of the athletes were aware of the history of the…

According to the 2023 Alberta Summer Games' athlete database, 62 athletes competing in this year's games called Cochrane their hometown. More than 3000 athletes were in action in Okotoks and Diamond Valley from July 20 to 23 at the 2023 Alberta Summer Games - and over 60 of them were from Cochrane. According to the 2023 Alberta Summer…

Ever since the Soviet Union disintegrated, the US has owned the Summer Olympic podium, outpacing the rest of the planet at the last seven Games. That won't change when the XXXIIIrd edition begins in Paris a year from Wednesday. The Americans could exceed the 130-medal mark and once again will finish comfortably ahead of the Chinese, who have become…

ATHLETES will be heading to the city of love in 2024 for the Paris Olympics Games - and it is not to be missed. The previous competition in Tokyo saw Team GB walk away with a whopping 64 medals in total - ranking 4th in the leaderboards. Diving phenomenon Tom Daley finally secured gold at the 2020 games. While Adam Peaty cleaned up in the pool by…

Mission accomplished for Team Pilipinas. The 840-strong contingent of the Philippines was given a mission to surpass the 52-gold tally of the team in Hanoi last year. And they were able to do so, tallying 58 golds with 86 silvers and 116 bronzes for a fifth-place finish. Vietnam (136-105-114) was the overall champion for the second straight…

Haruka Kawaji is unfazed by the rain filling the Kishiwada Keirin Velodrome in Osaka. Warm despite the cold and with eyes only for the racing line, she clicks her bike into the starting blocks and waits for the bell. As a woman in keirin (Japanese cycle racing event), she's had to wait longer than most. Japanese keirin racing pits seven women or…

Canada is celebrating a haul of four medals at the 2022 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, which took place at the Vélodrome National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. The 2022 event, which encompasses the UCI Track Cycling World Championships and the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, saw Canadian cyclists achieve a series of firsts and a…

Jennifer Valente (Virginia's Blue Ridge TWENTY24) scored an extra superlative when she won her first world title in the women's Omnium on Friday at the UCI Track World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. A multiple gold winner in the Team Pursuit for the United States, the Omnium victory was her first individual elite world title at…

UCI Tissot Track World Championships 2022 Location: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Paris) Dates: 12 October - 16 October As the road racing calendar grinds steadily to a halt, track cycling is setting the stage for its largest annual event. First held in Chicago, USA in 1893, the Track World Championships award rainbow jerseys across a range of…

Gustav Iden won the Ironman Kona World Championship in a course record time, becoming the second consecutive Norwegian to win the men's world title and the first to do so in Kona. Iden, 26, clocked an unofficial 7 hours, 40 minutes, 24 seconds for the 140.6-mile race (2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike, 26.2-mile run) with temperatures in the 80s on the…

Title: War on Wheels - Inside Keirin and Japan's Cycling Subculture Justin McCurry Publisher: Pursuit (UK) | Simon and Schuster (US) Pages: 264 Year: 2021 Order: Profile Books (UK) | Simon and Schuster (US) What it is: A brief history of keirin racing and its place in Japanese culture Strengths: It's an introduction to keirin racing and its place…

Connor Fields, who in 2016 became the first American to win an Olympic BMX title, announced his retirement a little more than one year after a life-threatening crash at the Tokyo Games. "I wanted to go out on my own terms, and in a way, I still am, despite the thing that I love most nearly ending my life," Fields said in a social media video…

New Zealand's Ellesse Andrews (left) edges out Kelsey Mitchell to win sprint gold at the Commonwealth Games Free tips, best bets and analysis for the women's keirin cycling at the Commonwealth Games on Monday. BBC One, Two & iPlayer, from 8.30am Monday Ellesse Andrews to win women's keirin Cycling, 2.02pm Monday 1pt 5-1 Betfred Four days of action…

With five gold medals already in the bag from the first two days of competition, New Zealand's cyclists are only one shy of the record six golds they won in Glasgow in 2014. The eight medals captured on the bike so far have already surpassed cycling's total from 17 of the past 21 Commonwealth Games. New Zealand is the leading performer on the bike…

You wonder what Northern Ireland will consider to have been a successful Games once the dust settles on Birmingham 2022. It's fair to imagine a considerable part of the debrief will centre around the medals table; a tangible measure of regression, consistency or progress when compared to Games gone before. The Gold Coast in 2018 yielded 12 medals…

Rider Interview: The keirin can be one of the most exciting events on the velodrome - 'It's much like chess but with head butts and shoulder charges!' So said British keirin rider Joe Truman when Ed Hood asked him about his Japanese experience. Keirin, love or hate it; even the current'UCi decaffeinated' version can still produce spectacular…

Erriyon Knighton, who last year at age 17 broke Usain Bolt junior sprint records, shattered his own U20 record in the 200m and became the fourth-fastest man in history on Saturday. Knighton clocked 19.49 seconds in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the world's fastest time since the 2012 Olympics, to move behind Bolt (19.19 world record), Yohan…

IZU, Japan, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Yuka Kobayashi broke new ground this week when she became the first female Japanese rider to compete at the Olympics in a keirin -- a cycling race ingrained in the country's culture. The 27-year-old was taking part in the women's event at the Izu Velodrome and delighted the home crowd on Wednesday as she powered into…

We've seen plenty of drama at the Izu velodrome since the track cycling began in Tokyo and we're set to see lots more when the keirin kicks off. The fast, exciting and often dangerous event.sees the world's best sprinters battle it out around the track with the fastest racers earning a place on the podium. Team GB's Jason Kenny is the defending…

Day five brought three more medals for Team GB in Tokyo, with swimmer Tom Dean making history in the pool and Charlotte Dujardin in the dressage. Dean, 21, became the first British male swimmer to claim two golds at the same Olympics in 113 years after he and his teammates won the 200m freestyle relay. The 21-year-old, along with Duncan Scott, 24,…

TOKYO - Conor Fields currently sits as the favorite to win the Cycling BMX event at the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games. Fields won the gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Fields is the only USA cyclist to have won the gold medal in the BMX event and Olympic betting fans are expecting him to defend this title. This will be the third time…

Over the next week, we'll be providing comprehensive betting previews for every major event ahead of the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo, which will run from July 23 - August 8. This edition focuses on the table tennis competition, which will be held July 24 - August 6 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. China barely broke a sweat in sweeping the table…

THE images step up Katie Archibald's forearm like a stairway into her soul. The Thinker of Tender Thoughts, the wordless, wondrous story of a man growing up with flowers instead of hair, yet who goes on to chop them all off when he is mocked for being different. A tale of how the world's demands for conformity can take someone unique and make them…

The past 12 months have seen a number of Scottish sporting successes in an action-packed calendar, which encompassed Commonwealth Games, Winter Olympics and two other major track-and-field championships. Here, the PA news agency looks back at some of the best 2022 achievements on the wider stage with the focus on 10 sports. Jake Wightman stunned…