Can someone please Media-train Philip Hinde!

Don't believe everything you read in the press.

Either way.

Already forgotten who they were competing against but if they were not game to complain , then who are we to complain ?

Foot and mouth disease was wiped out years ago ! Wasn't it ?
Wonder why Queen Vic was such a good sport ? Woman has character !
So many people these days know better than the ref that one wonders if Sport is played on a level playing field !

Roll on the " Chemical Olympic games 2016 "!

Hoy's face was priceless. One of the best 'off the field' moments of the games.

I was under the impression for some reason that if a rider rolls off the track, for whatever reason, it would have been game over but falling into/onto the track means a restart?

Have I just invented this in my head?

At least it is not going to be investigated

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19107973

Why train for the media? If it's true then the boy needs to learn to keep his gob shut.

I'm still waiting for Wiggins to annouce the winning raffle tickets. That had to be the best speach I heard for a long time.

I don't know if the video will play outside of the UK, If not i'll transcribe what was said. Hoy looked to have a nervous laughing going on

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19104330

It's not outside the rules therefore it's not technically 'cheating' but can you see it happening in any other sport? What if Bolt had gotten a rotten start in the 100m? Can he fall over and get a restart? No, it's a loophole in the rules that has been used to great effect by GB. It also sounds like it was a team strategy/decision so don't just blame Hindes.

The rules are at fault and no doubt this will prompt the UCI to take a look at them and tighten them.

Another quote is less ambiguous:

"So I crashed, I did it on purpose just to get the restart, just to have the fastest ride. It was all planned really,".

Not sure where that is originally from but it is quoted on CN.

How is that different from the badminton players not trying to win so that they gain an advantage ? Does cycling not have a "best efforts" rule - maybe it should do.

Legal or not, it's cheating.

Have to agree with Dave, purely from the grimace on Hoy's face as Hindes was talking you could tell he was really putting his foot in it admitting that effectively he'd taken a dive in order to get a another crack at the start. Either way GB were obviously the fastest in the competition so it doesn't make much difference except possibly they'd have had a different run to the final.

Lost in translation? maybe, but I doubt it. Hindes is playing the old 'no comprendo' card pretty well now he's been told to by BC but he was perfectly lucid in the original interviews that I've seen and read: if the qualifying start isn't spot on, take a dive and restart was the basic gist.

Isn't this a Lost In Translation moment, not anything to do with media training? Boy done good.

I flippin hate media training anyway. Turns intelligent witty people into dull-eyed automatons with nothing new or interesting to say for fear of, well, anything at all really.

See Wiggins for details (refuses to PRiffy himself).