The monitor dash (match dash or simply dash) is an everyday occasion on the Olympic Video games and can function once more for women and men on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.
The dash has been within the Video games in each version apart from 1904 for the lads, with ladies competing since 1988.
This is what it’s good to know concerning the dash on the Olympic Video games.
Olympic biking: Observe dash
The precept of the monitor dash is clinically easy – two riders race off over three laps to see who’s quickest.
In apply, the riders participate in what can appear a weird stalemate, watching one another rigorously and ready for the opposite to make the primary transfer – till the dash bursts into life within the closing levels.
Within the early levels of the occasion riders will typically transfer as much as the highest of the monitor to attempt to power the opposite into the lead (and achieve an aerodynamic benefit behind when the dash begins), even coming to a whole cease in a monitor stand.
The race commissaire will warn the riders in the event that they maintain the monitor stand for too lengthy, at which level they are going to start rolling once more (albeit often fairly slowly).
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The race will then kick-off, often within the final lap, when one of many riders begins making their cost for the road. The main rider will typically speed up first to attempt to hole the chasing rider. The rider in second wheel may have an aerodynamic benefit and can attempt to come around the main rider within the last bend or straight. The main rider nonetheless can hug the tightest inside line on the monitor to create the shortest distance, or can transfer additional as much as power their opponent wider (and due to this fact an extra distance across the monitor).
The Olympics kick off with a 200m flying lap to ascertain qualifying occasions. The 18 quickest riders participate within the 1/16 finals, pairing off with the quickest in opposition to the slowest. Winners progress, whereas losers get the prospect to compete in repechage rounds, till ultimately eight riders stay for the best-of-three quarter finals.
The semi-finals determine who will compete within the gold medal last, and who will race off for bronze.
Watching the Paris Olympics 2024 monitor dash occasions
Males’s dash qualifying rounds happen from Wednesday 7 August, with the finals on Friday 9 August. The ladies’s qualifying rounds start on Friday 9 August, with the finals on Sunday 11 August.
- Wednesday 7 August, 12:45pm-3.30pm CEST: Males’s Dash, qualifying; Males’s Dash, 1/32 finals and repechages, 1/16 finals, and 1/8 finals and repechanges
- Thursday 8 August, 5:30pm-7:55pm CEST: Males’s dash quarter finals
- Friday 9 August, 2:30pm-3:45pm CEST: Ladies’s Dash, qualifying; Males’s Dash, semi finals, and finals; Ladies’s Dash, 1/32 finals and repechages, 1/16 finals and repechages; Ladies’s Dash 1/16 Finals
- Saturday, 10 August, 5:00pm-7:55pm CEST: Ladies’s Dash, 1/8 finals, and quarter finals
- Sunday, 11 August, 11:00am-2:15pm CEST: Ladies’s Dash, semi finals and finals
You’ll be able to see a schedule of all occasions on the Paris 2024 Olympic video games right here.
Every day, we’ll present timings for the day’s races right here, so you may greatest plan the right way to watch the Paris Olympics monitor biking occasions.
