Olympic BMX Finals Day

[Scott]

Update 10am Friday: No word yet on any concerns regarding the weather, so things are still good to go.

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Today's THE day and we still have two Australian men mixing it up, Jared Graves progressed through quite easily and Kamakazi just scraped through for the final day of competition. Luke Madill didn't fair so well, falling victum to some first corner mayhem.

Following yesterdays competition, the field that started at 32 has been reduced to just 16. The women's top 16 will complete all their racing today after only having to do their seeding runs yesterday.

Todays racing:

11:00am - Women's Semifinals Run 1
11:08am - Men's Semifinals Run 1
11:30am - Women's Semifinals Run 2
11:38am - Men's Semifinals Run 2
12:00pm - Women's Semifinals Run 3
12:08pm - Men's Semifinals Run 3
12:30pm - Women's Final Run
12:40pm - Men's Final Run

Live Viewing
You can either view the race live on channel 7 (who have done a pretty good job so far), or on the yahoo7 live website (a bit temperamental) here. **Update: Apparently due to a conflict of interest between Yahoo and 7, there will be no live web stream of the event on Yahoo.

Live Results
For semi live results, keep refreshing this page here.

Video Clips
Clips from yesterday can be found here.

All times are AEST.

 

[Plow King]

You made a mistake Scott, I'm only allowed to select one option in the poll.

 

[No Skid Marks]

F*** Oi OI oI, it was an advertising campaign from MC Donalds wasn't it? I guess that doesn't matter, I shouldn't be such a kill joy, I just hate corporate kill joys.
Thanks heaps Scott for the times etc, should be fun watching.

 

[RaID]

Just letting people know that according to Yahoo7 site there isnt any live streaming of the BMX today for the semis and finals on the link above ie
http://au.sports.yahoo.com/olympics/live-video/

That was only scheduled for the seeding and quarters, so dont get your hopes up. Lets just hope they put it on TV.

 

[Mr. Pink]

Channel 7 are advertising it as being on "later", so fingers crossed. I'm still sceptical though, they might decide to show synchronised swimming or something instead, fucktards.

 

[No Skid Marks]

They're showing lots of footage in the mini Hype up ad thingys.

 

[Techno Destructo]

Any updates on scheduled times yet? Have they changed from the initial schedule?

 

[SCHOEY]

Heavy rain has forced the postponment of Thursday's semi-finals in the BMX bicycle competition.

Action in the men's and women's events had been due to start at 11:00 am (0300 GMT) but the bad weather saw this put back to 3:00 pm (0700 GMT). If the rain continues it could be delayed until Friday.

http://au.sports.yahoo.com/news/article/-/4942490/olympics-rain-hits-bmx-cycling-competition

 

[demo man]

Heavy rain has forced the postponment of Thursday's semi-finals in the BMX bicycle competition.

Action in the men's and women's events had been due to start at 11:00 am (0300 GMT) but the bad weather saw this put back to 3:00 pm (0700 GMT). If the rain continues it could be delayed until Friday.

http://au.sports.yahoo.com/news/article/-/4942490/olympics-rain-hits-bmx-cycling-competition

aww fuck.

So, is that 3pm AEST?

 

[SCHOEY]

aww fuck.

So, is that 3pm AEST?

I believe so

 

[demo man]

no that would be 5pm AEST

But wasn't it 11am AEST (but 9am Bejing time)? So wouldn't they use the same time zone unless they specify otherwise?

 

[Scott]

I think it's 3pm. As the news update says racing was to start at 11am (9am China time), so that'd be 1pm China time for racing.

 

[Techno Destructo]

3pm?!? AWESOME! I can't believe I'm stoked that it's been postphoned!

I've got a meeting at 11:30 to god knows when!

Hooray for rain!

 

[SCHOEY]

I think it's 3pm. As the news update says racing was to start at 11am (9am China time), so that'd be 1pm China time for racing.

That's is the way i understood it too.

 

[RaID]

But wasn't it 11am AEST (but 9am Bejing time)? So wouldn't they use the same time zone unless they specify otherwise?

stand corrected

 

[entombed]

Action in the men's and women's events was due to start at 1100 (0900) on Thursday but will be delayed until Friday


link

weak!

 

[Quintin]

yep 11am our time friday

 

[Mr. Pink]

FAAARRRRRKKKKKK!!!! Now I'm not going to get to watch any of it!!

 

[Cedel]

I waged school to watch this.

 

[dj3]

yes now I'll be able to see because it's now on tomorrow, yay for delay!