So I'm posting this a little late, but the Team Pursuit schedule is available here (PDF file).
The most team-oriented event of the spring, it also might be the best predictor of success on race day. Each team completes a 15-lap (men) or 12-lap (women) heat with the team's time recorded with the 3rd-place finisher. The top two men's and women's teams compete in final heats at day's end to determine the team pursuit winner
Last year, I tried to figure out how well Team Pursuit predicted the race. I'll re-post some of those stats here (although I haven't updated them w/the 2009 results...I will try to do that before the weekend).
Just follow the jump.
Here's the average finishing place in the race as sorted by the team pursuit result for the '00-'08 years (the event was canceled due to weather in '02 and '06). I only looked at the top 25 positions, since there are often fewer team pursuit entries than race-day entries.
1st place Team Pursuit - Avg. race finish: 3.43 (-2.43 difference)
2nd place - Avg. race finish: 3.57 (-1.57)
3rd place - Avg. race finish: 4.57 (-1.57)
4th place - Avg. race finish: 6.42 (-2.42)
5th place - Avg. race finish: 8.57 (-3.57)
6th place - Avg. race finish: 5.56 (+0.44)
7th place - Avg. race finish: 10.67 (-3.67)
8th place - Avg. race finish: 10.14 (-2.14)
9th place - Avg. race finish: 9.29 (-0.29)
10th place - Avg. race finish: 10.86 (-0.86)
11th place - Avg. race finish: 11.00 (0.00)
12th place - Avg. race finish: 12.57 (-0.57)
13th place - Avg. race finish: 19.43 (-6.43)
14th place - Avg. race finish: 14.71 (-0.71)
15th place - Avg. race finish: 16.71 (-1.71)
16th place - Avg. race finish: 20.00 (-4.00)
17th place - Avg. race finish: 21.00 (-4.00)
18th place - Avg. race finish: 22.50 (-4.50)
19th place - Avg. race finish: 18.67 (+0.33)
20th place - Avg. race finish: 22.71 (-2.71)
21st place - Avg. race finish: 23.43 (-2.43)
22nd place - Avg. race finish: 28.00 (-6.00)
23rd place - Avg. race finish: 25.83 (-2.83)
24th place - Avg. race finish: 23.17 (+0.83)
25th place - Avg. race finish: 28.25 (-3.25)
