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A British World Champion - Does This Influence Views About One-off World Finals?


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why?

 

because Tai got injured again?

injuries are part and parcel of the sport.

 

I regard Emil Sayfutdinov as the best emerging talent in speedway.

 

It does seem a shame that we still do not have the world championship as it used to be with qualifying rounds and a final like at Wembley

/Cardiff and alternating with Sweden and Poland. This would be in addition to the Grand Prix. It could end up that the European Championship which we had this year shows that you can have two top competitions at least like many other sports do

 

Are you seriously advocating TWO world championships? That's how your trend appears to me.

How exactly would a one-off world championship work? How would qualifying be staged and what would be the progression to a one-off world final? I think the sport is too bug these days for such a format to be workable. But other views on the subject would be interesting?

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I regard Emil Sayfutdinov as the best emerging talent in speedway.

 

 

 

Are you seriously advocating TWO world championships? That's how your trend appears to me.

How exactly would a one-off world championship work? How would qualifying be staged and what would be the progression to a one-off world final? I think the sport is too bug these days for such a format to be workable. But other views on the subject would be interesting?

 

Can a rider who has done 5 years in the GP series still be described as emerging?

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Most likely not. But I still view him as a serious candidate to be a deserved world champion.

 

Agreed and along with Tai, Darcy and the likes of MJJ the future of the GP series looks in good hands.

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Agreed and along with Tai, Darcy and the likes of MJJ the future of the GP series looks in good hands.

 

And just look how much quicker those guys have got since the series has been on Eurosport. Big well done to the guys at Eurosport for giving us a British world champion

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Tai's GP average was 13.40

 

Emil's was 12.67.

 

Plus Tai's injuries came in GP's and would have hampered his average through lost points resulting from that.

 

Totally deserving Wotld champion despite injuries to other conteners. Also, he had the highest average and was leading at the time of Emil's injury.

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Question regarding the one off finals, i know that they went to semi finals at the end but in the older days it was 5 from the continental finals and 11 from the inter continental finals. If this was still in play today what do people think would be the qualifyer numbers from both qualifyers

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Tai's GP average was 13.40

 

Emil's was 12.67.

 

Plus Tai's injuries came in GP's and would have hampered his average through lost points resulting from that.

 

Totally deserving Wotld champion despite injuries to other conteners. Also, he had the highest average and was leading at the time of Emil's injury.

 

Think you have done same as me. Those are the averages on the SGP website but they dont take into account the last two GPs

 

It is all irrelevant anyway because, as you say, Tai is a most deserved world champion

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Think you have done same as me. Those are the averages on the SGP website but they dont take into account the last two GPs

 

It is all irrelevant anyway because, as you say, Tai is a most deserved world champion

 

Ah right. In any case, Tai rode the last two rounds knowing what he needed to do.

 

It was interesting on Polish tv when they interviewed Tai (in English) after he won. The interviewer said to him: "I'll tell you the difference between your championshp and Mark Loram's championship. The difference is YOU were the man to beat."

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So 12.58 to 12.67 means Emil is the real champ.

 

Tai is a paper champ, A bit like Carl Froch in the super middleweight division.

what a total fool you really are do us all a favour and keep your mouth quiet if you not got anything decent to say

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GP's everytime.

 

After the one off, I occasionally felt cheated as good riders dropped a chain and that was it, end of world final for them.

 

oddly though, Tia winning the world championship has rekindled my brothers interest and he hasn't been since Tatum rode for Cov!

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