Some countries questioned Team GB's rapid improvement in the velodrome.
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The velodrome is the most delayed of Rio's permanent Olympic venues.
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You're wrong as a cyclist asking for directions in a velodrome.
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In the velodrome they'll be awarding medals in men's omnium cycling.
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The velodrome in Manchester, England, is a beautiful, fast indoor track.
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Track cyclists tip to the left as they loop around the velodrome.
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Many Olympic venues are abandoned; a fire in July damaged the velodrome.
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The velodrome, the venue that took the longest to build, is finished.
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Today sees the opening of the track cycling events in the velodrome.
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Construction crews will finish the $43 million velodrome in the nick of time.
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Grove completed six laps of the velodrome in 3:06.12, setting a world record.
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But he said a new indoor velodrome could be finished as soon as this year.
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In the velodrome, we'll see medals in the women's omnium, women's sprint, and the men's kerin.
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Within seconds the reindeer funnel into a wooden corral the size and shape of a velodrome.
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At the Velodrome, there was a complete lack of security at the entrance to the stadium.
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There is, for the first time in some time, a feel-good factor around Stade Velodrome.
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Other countries have voiced suspicions about Team GB's rapid improvement in certain disciplines, especially in the velodrome.
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At the entrance of the Velodrome, excited English fans with blood stains and bandaged heads sing loudly.
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Australian cyclist Matthew Glaetzer competes in the Men's Sprint Qualifying at the Rio Olympic Velodrome on August 12.
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The velodrome (for cycling) needs a little more but it will be ready... at the end of April.
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It's home to the historic six-day races at the 3,000-seat Kuipke, a hallowed velodrome in Citadelpark.
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Some 8,000 were held for days under horrific conditions at the Velodrome d'Hiver, an indoor bike racing stadium.
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By the time the race got underway for a third time, a tense quiet hung over the Rio velodrome.
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He is building a new youth academy near the Velodrome, in what he calls the "heart" of the city.
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The thing is — at least for anyone who isn't familiar with the velodrome — the event is already quite confusing.
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Likewise, Manchester, England, which boasts a world-class velodrome, would be a great place to hold the track-cycling events.
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Thousands of Jews were brought to the Velodrome d'Hiver cycling track in 1942 and sent on to Nazi death camps.
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Vogel suffered serious spinal injuries after colliding with another cyclist while training at the Cottbus Sport Centre Velodrome in June.
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But mostly the French fans at the Stade Velodrome on Thursday just sang as one, long and loud and proud.
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Ten days before the election, Marine Le Pen denied French responsibility for the 1942 Velodrome d'Hiver roundup of 13,000 Jews.
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Two arenas — the velodrome and tennis centre — have been effectively closed down, as they're off-limits to the community and visitors.
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"I have no doubt there will be a velodrome ready and functional to the required standards for the Olympic Games," he said.
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Heatherwick Studio had submitted designs for two Olympic structures—a velodrome and an observation tower—but had failed to win the commissions.
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About 13,000 Jews were detained in the Velodrome d'Hiver stadium near the Eiffel Tower and most of them were deported to Auschwitz.
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The Olympic Velodrome, used for cycling events, has had a tumultuous path to existence, but it appears to finally be (mostly) completed.
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She will lead a strong Australian team into the Rio velodrome, where she will also compete in the keirin and the team sprint.
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The velodrome uses special pine wood only found in Siberia and was one of the last venues to be ready for the Olympics.
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There will be six sprint and four endurance events on a Rio velodrome that was completed late after problems laying the wooden boards.
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Ekelund also designed the Helsinki Velodrome, which hosted cycling and field hockey events during the Games and was renovated in the late 19543s.
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Track cyclists compete on a banked oval, called a velodrome, and Catlin seemed suited for it because it required both power and precision.
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She says the French state bore no guilt for the detention and deportation of Jews from a Paris velodrome in the second world war.
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"There I learned what a velodrome is, even though it was outdoors," said Herold, who will compete in team sprint and keirin in Jakarta.
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Part-time police officer Vogel suffered serious spinal injuries after colliding with another cyclist while training at the Cottbus Sport Centre Velodrome in June.
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DEDUCTIONS -7 (No sports; cannot find exit from velodrome) PERSONAL DISCOMFORT 7 (Heat, hammering noises, headache) 1:45 We arrive at the Carioca stadium.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Powering around the banked wooden boards of a Olympic velodrome at 60kph, dangerously close to the bike in front, takes guts.
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Legs pumping, eyes bulging the British duo clawed the lap back and when Cavendish made contact with the pack ear-splitting roars rocked the velodrome.
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Constructed forty years ago, Montreal's Olympic Park hosted several venues during the 1976 Summer Olympics, including an athlete's village, multi-purpose arena, velodrome, and pool.
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The track program concludes at the Rio velodrome on Tuesday when, as well as the omnium, the women's sprint and men's keirin will also be decided.
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Rio-based Tecnosolo "did not have the conditions to continue being technically responsible for the construction of the velodrome," the municipal government said in a statement.
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Britain set a new world record as they beat Australia in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic velodrome, taking Wiggins' medal haul to eight, including five golds.
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Molly Cranna When the us women's track cycling team rolls onto the velodrome in Rio for the pursuit event today, they'll be pedaling some funky-looking chariots.
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BankruptcyTecnosolo, the construction company in charge of the velodrome, has declared bankruptcy and now another firm is scrambling to complete the $13 million structure by August 21.
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Rio de Janeiro's city government said earlier this week it had canceled its contract with the company constructing the velodrome after the firm filed for bankruptcy protection.
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There was also gold at the velodrome as the cycling competition got underway with the Daniel Holloway triumphing for the United States in the men's omnium event.
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Although Trinidad now has a velodrome, part of Paul's training involves getting out on the roads on an island that is only 59 km (37 miles) wide.
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It is 21 years since Berlin's velodrome last hosted the worlds and the home crowds have had plenty to cheer, particularly from the young women's sprint squad.
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It is 21 years since Berlin's velodrome last hosted the worlds and the home crowds have had plenty to cheer, particularly from the young women's sprint squad.
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Although the last of the venues to be delivered to Games organizers after a catalog of problems that meant no test event was possible, the velodrome looks impressive.
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Many of the medals are awarded by I.O.C. members, and the prince was scheduled for a ceremony later that day at the velodrome, home of the cycling events.
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In 1942, French police helped round up 13,000 Parisian Jews, shoving them into the Velodrome d'Hiver — more commonly known as Vel d'Hiv — an all-weather indoor cycling stadium.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Dutchwoman Kirsten Wild claimed the opening gold medal at the world track championships as she edged the women's scratch race at the Berlin velodrome on Wednesday.
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The final day of action in the Berlin velodrome included an emotional tribute to Germany's Kristina Vogel, the reigning Olympic sprint champion paralyzed in an accident in 2018.
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They, nor the crowd in the Rio velodrome, had barely taken stock when in the following heat the British quartet, up against Canada, lowered the mark to 4:12.152.
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At the qualifying event for women's Team Pursuit track cycling, Simona Frapporti, Francesca Pattaro, Silvia Valsecchi, and 2008 Olympics bronze medalist Tatiana Guderzo compete for Italy in the Velodrome.
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Morkov, who quit the UAE Tour to compete at the worlds, actually went to the velodrome on Thursday and was hugging his team mates after their time trial exploits.
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Former British Cycling and Team Sky doctor Richard Freeman is also the subject of a medical tribunal over deliveries of testosterone to the national velodrome in Manchester in 2011.
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Assicurazioni Generali acquires Palazzo delle Scintille, an historic former velodrome now part of the new Citylife district of Milan, for 2225 million euros ($403 million), Corriere della Sera reports.
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Masked Russia supporters charged at England fans, punching and kicking them, after the final whistle of the 1-1 Group B draw at the Stade Velodrome in Marseille on Saturday.
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Jason Kenny defeated Callum Skinner in an all-Britain final inside the velodrome to defend his individual sprint Olympic gold medal and win his second gold of the Rio Games.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Retired former Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins was back in a velodrome but not on two wheels as his competitive rowing debut ended in disappointment on Saturday.
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But an area that's remained relatively unchanged—bar the addition of an enormous building dedicated solely to bicycles—is the Lea Valley, whose Olympic velodrome borders Stratford and Hackney Wick.
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Two years later, Rio de Janeiro is stuck with a rumbling herd of white elephants, Olympic pools filled with rat feces, and a burned and collapsed velodrome and wrecked arenas.
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The initial bid plan, submitted on Friday, also includes a link-up with neighboring Manchester which would host Twenty20 cricket at Old Trafford cricket ground and cycling at the Manchester Velodrome.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Track cycling world records may prove elusive at the Rio Olympics with riders describing the polished wooden boards as soft and sticky at the brand new velodrome.
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The velodrome may be behind schedule and the new metro might not be fully operational but when it comes to technology, the Rio 603 Olympics are about to break new ground.
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France's president, François Hollande, jumped out of his seat and thrust his arms in the air, and the Stade Velodrome crowd rose as one to hail Payet after another outstanding finish.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Britain's women's team pursuit squad christened the Rio de Janeiro Olympic velodrome with a world record on the first day of the track cycling program on Thursday.
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LONDON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Retired former Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins was back in a velodrome but not on two wheels as his competitive rowing debut ended in disappointment on Saturday.
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The 25-year-old Adelaide native set a Games record time of 59.340 seconds at the Anna Meares Velodrome, edging New Zealander Edward Dawkins (59.928), with Scotland's Callum Skinner taking the bronze.
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The 30-year-old, the most prolific road sprinter of his generation with 26 Tour de France stage wins, will take part in the multi-discipline omnium event in the Rio velodrome.
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She insisted that France was not responsible for the Velodrome d'Hiver roundup of 13,000 Jews in Paris in 1942, even though French leaders over the past 20 years have acknowledged French culpability.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish provided a rip-roaring climax to the world track cycling championships with a stunning Madison victory that rocked London's velodrome to its rafters on Sunday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Britain set a new Olympic men's team sprint record to top qualifying as action started at the velodrome on Thursday, edging out world champions New Zealand.
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To break the velodrome 24-hour distance record set by Austrian ultra-cyclist Christoph Strasser in 2017 — a 3,767-lap grind after which he vowed never to ride on a track again.
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Many buildings used in the London Olympic Games were designed to be removed and the land used for other projects or, like the velodrome, sustainably sourced wood and other materials were used.
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Sahrom had qualified last of the final 16 riders and Glaetzer was completely caught off guard when the Malaysian attacked and roared away for a stunning upset at the Anna Meares Velodrome.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - British riders topped the cycling medals table after more velodrome domination but it was far from a one-nation show as the sport's disciplines provided rich storylines in Rio.
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He trailed by 16 points going into the final event of the competition but could not quite bring his superior sprinting prowess to bear in the 160-lap finale in the Rio velodrome.
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UEFA indicated that the flare incident did not constitute a "crowd disturbance" that might trigger the suspended penalty hanging over the Russian team since their supporters charged England fans at the Stade Velodrome.
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That was just the warm-up act, however, as the Danes went even quicker on Thursday at the Berlin velodrome, lowering the record by another 1.5 seconds with a time of 3:44.672.
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Morkov, caught up in the coronavirus scare this week that shut down the UAE Tour, showed no ill-effects as he and Lasse Norman Hansen won the madison title in the Berlin velodrome.
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The course, which features two short individual time trials — including the penultimate stage in Marseille, starting and ending at the Stade Velodrome — could favor France's Romain Bardet, who finished second overall this year.
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Later, in scenes that could draw sanctions from European soccer's governing body, UEFA, Russian supporters charged their English counterparts inside Marseille's Stade Velodrome moments after the final whistle in their teams' 1-1 draw.
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The icing on the cake for the quartet of Wiggins, Ed Clancy, Steven Burke and Owain Doull was breaking the world record twice in the space of a few pulsating hours at Rio's velodrome.
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Later, in scenes that could draw sanctions from European soccer's governing body, UEFA, Russian supporters charged their English counterparts inside Marseille's Stade Velodrome moments after the final whistle of their teams' 1-1 draw.
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There is, for example, a practical limit to how much temperature can be raised in the velodrome to force the warmer air to rise to the ceiling and decrease its density on the track.
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Seated on an ergometer the bearded 37-year-old took on some of Britain's best rowers in the elite 2-kilometre race at the London Velodrome but trailed home in six minutes 22.5 seconds.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Britain set a new track cycling world record in the women's team pursuit on Thursday, clocking four minutes 13.260 seconds in a qualifying session in the Olympic velodrome.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Jason Kenny, Britain's new track cycling king, was looking forward to something a little more sedate after his golden rides during a fast and furious week at the Olympic velodrome.
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In terms of legacy, the mayor said a tender process had begun to secure a public private partnership (PPP) for running the permanent venues in the Olympic park, including the tennis stadium and velodrome.
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The Slovakian accelerated 55 km from the finish line at the Roubaix Velodrome to catch the day's breakaway riders and get rid of the strongest of them, Swiss Silvan Dillier, in a sprint finish.
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Another competition to watch is the Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, where participants will engage in a competition of track cycling (track bikes on velodrome or custom-built tracks) from Feb.
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Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes is set to hand over the recently finished velodrome, the last major installation in the Olympic Park, to the games organizing committee on Saturday, just days before next week's test event.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's hopes of battling Britain for Olympic cycling supremacy were smashed at the Rio velodrome last year but the nation's new high performance director sees a golden future ahead for the fallen superpower.
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Auckland ace Webster took three sprints to stun Mancunian maestro Kenny in the nerve-shredding 2014 final but needed only two to despatch Jack Carlin, the Scottish world silver medalist, at the Anna Meares Velodrome.
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The Champions Cup final had been scheduled to take place on May 23 at the Stade Velodrome, while the Challenge Cup title decider was due to be played at the same venue the day before.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The Netherlands made a flying start to the UCI world track championships with two gold medals and Germany's women roared to the team sprint title as records tumbled inside Berlin's velodrome on Wednesday.
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Germany's Pauline Grabosch and Emma Hinze gave the home fans packed into the subterranean velodrome plenty to cheer as they beat Australian duo Kaarle McCulloch and Stephanie Morton to win the team sprint gold medal.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Australian track cyclist Melissa Hoskins said she hopes to compete in the women's team pursuit after escaping serious injury following a high speed crash in training at the Olympic velodrome on Monday.
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The arrest, called "rafle du Vel d'Hiv," refers to the Nazi-ordered roundup by French police in the Velodrome d'Hiver cycling stadium of 13,000 Jews, who were then deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in July 1942.
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Barring a crash or a mechanical failure he will emerge into the Stade Velodrome with the yellow jersey secured for a third successive year, and his fourth in total, before Sunday's traditional Champagne ride into Paris.
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The 27-year-old, who won the individual sprint world title in Hong Kong last year as well as a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, collided with another cyclist while training at Germany's Cottbus velodrome.
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LONDON — For anyone who isn't familiar with the Olympics omnium events in the velodrome, the points race — that one where they go round the track loads and do some sprinting and stuff — can be a tad confusing.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - The Olympic velodrome will be ready for athletes to train there this month, organizers said on Thursday, with the most delayed project of the Games still to be completed two months before the start.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The Americans have come up with a funky new track bike for the Olympics and everywhere you look around the inner-sanctum of Rio's velodrome there is space-age kit primed for action.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A fire at Brazil's Olympic velodrome was put out on Sunday by fire fighters who battled for hours to extinguish the blaze in Rio de Janeiro's Olympic Park, the country's Sports Minister said.
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ROUBAIX, France (Reuters) - As Tom Boonen led the way into the Roubaix velodrome on Sunday, a huge roar came from the crowd in anticipation of the Belgian's record-breaking fifth title on the Queen of the Classics.
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MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France (Reuters) - Centenarian cyclist Robert Marchand donned his lycra shorts again on Friday and rode cautiously around France's indoor Velodrome National, becoming by far the oldest person to take a spin on the circuit.
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Still, Rihs, a hobby rider who himself climbed France's famed 13,912 meter Mont Ventoux, stuck to the sport, giving millions of francs to build an 8,000-square-metre velodrome in Switzerland that caters to Swiss Olympic athletes.
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And for pursuit cyclists, who race single-speed bikes around a velodrome, they created a device under the seat that logs data and sends information to the coach on torque, speed, power, and other metrics, in real-time.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - As Britain's track cyclists left Rio's velodrome on Tuesday with their saddle bags laden with gold, their rivals were left scratching their heads wondering just how they managed to keep peaking at the Olympics.
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Herold, now 23, will make her Asian Games debut at the Jakarta International Velodrome next week but it is the tsunami that devastated parts of Southeast Asia 14 years ago which remains the defining experience of her life.
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Her name was not the only thing different as she cranked back into action at the Revolution Series in London's velodrome on Friday - her first race since winning team pursuit and omnium gold in Rio as Laura Trott.
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The 36-year-old will become his country's most decorated Olympian ahead of fellow cyclist Chris Hoy with a medal of any color in the team pursuit in Rio's velodrome which would take his career haul to eight.
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Britain's Elinor Barker was pipped to gold by Italy's Rachele Barbieri, who overhauled the Welsh rider with metres to go in the 10km women's scratch race, while Jolien D'Hoore of Belgium finished third at the Hong Kong Velodrome.
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There was much more in the tank, however, as the Danes roared around Berlin's velodrome, almost reeling in the New Zealanders to clock 20163:44.672 for the 4,000 meters event, 1.5 seconds faster than their record on Wednesday.
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There was much more in the tank, however, as the Danes roared around Berlin's velodrome, almost reeling in the New Zealanders to clock 20163:44.672 for the 4,000 meters event, 1.5 seconds faster than their record on Wednesday.
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"You have to put your life on hold and go in at 100 percent, that's what it demands at this level," Mr. Staff told athletes after they finished riding the velodrome — slowly, as it was their first time.
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European governing body UEFA have begun disciplinary proceedings against the Russian federation after some of their fans appeared to charge at England's fans in the Stade Velodrome near the end of the Group B clash that ended 1-1.
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EXTRA POINTS 5 (Alert spotting of newsworthy event) DEDUCTIONS -5 (James is nearly hit by bus) 1:30 Nothing much going on at the velodrome, except for a guy riding a stationary bike and some people possibly doing repairs.
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LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The world's big mining groups are sharpening their marketing strategies in a post-crisis scramble for even tiny increases in profit, seeking marginal gains much like cycling teams in the Tour de France or Olympic velodrome.
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"I think I kayaked in a circle once," she said as she attempted to fit as many tests as possible into her schedule, including riding a bike on a velodrome and getting in the boxing ring with Ms. Shields.
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From videos and photographs taken at Marseilles' old port and later at the Velodrome arena, it is clear that those fighting on the Russian side were not just regular fans, but well-organized, and trained, members of hooligan groups.
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Poland's huge following in the Stade Velodrome celebrated the win and the progress it brought with extra gusto, having had to endure the humiliation of four years ago when they finished bottom of their group when co-hosting the tournament.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British ultra-cyclist James MacDonald's attempt to set a new 24-hour distance record in a velodrome ended in heartbreak on Sunday when a crash scuppered his hopes of traveling the 941.873km required to beat Austrian Christoph Strasser's mark.
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The sprinter, winner of 26 Tour stages and hoping to add to that figure when the race begins on Saturday in Normandy, has never claimed an Olympic medal and will compete in the omnium in the Rio velodrome in August.
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Team Great Britain's Laura Trott, 24, and Jason Kenny, 28 – whose kiss on Tuesday after a triumphant evening lit up Rio's velodrome – have nabbed a combined five gold medals in the 2016 Games (two for her and three for him).
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The qualification for the women's gymnastics team event was also being staged at the SSE Hydro arena while the track cycling championships were due to begin on Thursday evening at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, named after Scotland's most successful Olympian.
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The team were headed to their event at Coolangatta beach in the Gold Coast on Friday but instead were routed to the Anna Meares Velodrome in Brisbane, the venue of the track cycling events some 102 km (63 miles) away.
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In an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, the 11-times world champion said she relished the chance to battle against a new generation of riders and expected to be in peak fitness when she rolls into the Rio velodrome next month.
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The Orica-GreenEDGE rider, 37, outsprinted Belgian Boonen on the final bend of the Roubaix velodrome as British rider Ian Stannard took third place at the end of a crash-ridden 257.5-km ride featuring 52.8 km of cobbled sectors.
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Mr. Girardin catches him as he trains to break the speed record for his age group, following him from studio to home to Italy, where they visit Mr. Marinoni's village before heading to the velodrome where the attempt takes place.
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Pennsylvania GOP congressional candidate Marty Nothstein was placed on unpaid leave as executive director of the Lehigh Valley velodrome in February after the company's board discovered he was the subject of a sexual misconduct investigation, The Morning Call reported Friday.
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Morkov, caught up in the coronavirus scare this week that shut down the UAE Tour and left the world's best riders in quarantine, showed no ill-effects as he and Lasse Norman Hansen won the title in the Berlin velodrome.
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"It's very emotional, this is my eighth world title but I've been waiting my whole career to get a first team title," Californian Hammer told reporters at the London velodrome where they had beaten world champions Australia in the semis.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 2 (Reuters) - The Rio de Janeiro Olympic velodrome will be ready this month for athletes to start training there with the Games' most delayed project still to be completed two months before the competitions, organisers said on Thursday.
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"I think France isn't responsible for the Vel d'Hiv," Le Pen said on Sunday, referring to the Nazi-ordered roundup by French police in the Velodrome d'Hiver cycling stadium of 13,000 Jews, who were then deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in July 1942.
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UEFA on Tuesday handed down a suspended disqualification on the Russian Football Union in response to attacks by masked Russian supporters on England fans at the end of the 1-1 Group B draw at the Stade Velodrome in Marseille on Saturday.
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After the thrills and spills of the Olympics road races and the high-speed, high-tech track action in the velodrome, Wednesday gave the BMX cyclists the chance to shine as the men's and women's seeding runs took place at the Deodoro circuit.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro's city government said on Monday it had canceled its contract with the company constructing the Olympic velodrome about two months before the start of the Summer Games in Brazil, after the firm filed for bankruptcy protection.
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The Morning Call newspaper first reported last week that Nothstein had been placed on leave earlier this year from his position as executive director of the Lehigh Valley velodrome after the company's board discovered he was the subject of a sexual misconduct investigation.
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In a news conference at the Berlin hospital where she has been treated, Vogel, a record 11-time world champion, said she had accepted the fact that she would not walk again moments after the accident at the Cottbus Sport Centre Velodrome.
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Systems engineer MacDonald will roll off the start line at Newport's Geraint Thomas National Velodrome in Wales around midday on Saturday and plans to cover more than 941.873km by the time he comes to a standstill at the same time on Sunday. Why?
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There have been times in the recent past, an era of drift and disappointment, when the demands of the fans at Stade Velodrome have seemed to suffocate the team, when mutiny in the stands has reflected — or driven — chaos on the field.
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It looked as though Wiggins, 35, and team mates Jonathan Dibben, Ed Clancy and Owain Doull would raise the roof in the Olympic velodrome as they recovered from an early deficit but a youthful Australia outfit struck back to claim the title.
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Crowds of more than 10,000 people came to see the early stars of the sport push the limits of the big machines at more than 90 miles an hour around the banked track, essentially a scaled-up version of a bicycle velodrome.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - When she walks into Rio de Janeiro's velodrome in August as the best hope to lead the U.S. women's track cycling team to its first Olympic gold medal, Sarah Hammer will be acutely aware she might easily never have seen that moment.
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The former world champion, who has won the Tour of Lombardy twice, the Tour of Flanders and Liege-Bastogne-Liege, beat German Nils Politt (Katusha) in a sprint finish on the Roubaix velodrome with his team mate and compatriot Yves Lampaert coming home third.
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GLASGOW (Reuters) - Britain's Laura Kenny felt guilty when she had to leave baby son Albie and go to work at the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome on Sunday — but she felt much happier when she could bring home a second European Championship gold to show him.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Riding a bicycle round and round a velodrome non-stop for 24 hours sounds like a form of penance but for 113-year-old James MacDonald it is just another extreme two-wheeled challenge that needs to be crossed off his list.
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The training partners — who put the wheels of the British cycling juggernaut in motion with team sprint gold on Thursday — had set up a head-to-head in the individual final in the Rio velodrome but the 28-year-old Kenny dished out a harsh lesson.
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Local girl Trott, a favourite with the sell-out crowds at the sleek London velodrome, just had to stay out of trouble over the last 40 laps of the 100-lap points race, having extended the 12-point lead she built up over the first five disciplines.
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Trott, part of Britain's dominant track team at the 2012 Olympics when she won gold in the omnium and team pursuit, burst to the front on the 40th and final lap at the London velodrome and edged out Kirsten Wild of the Netherlands on the line.
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GLASGOW, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Britain's Laura Kenny reckoned she felt guilty when she had to leave baby son Albie and go to work at the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome on Sunday — but she felt much happier when she could bring home a second European Championship gold to show him.
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As it turned out Bardet was cooked and suffered a nightmare ride through the old port city and was only just spared the humiliation of being caught by Froome before the finish line at the Velodrome soccer stadium — despite the yellow-jersey holder rolling off the start line two minutes later.
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Laura Trott's absence from Britain's team pursuit lineup in Berlin, a result of a broken shoulder sustained last month at a World Cup race in Canada, means Australia and the U.S are favourites for women's gold in Berlin's velodrome, built for the city's unsuccessful bid to host the 2000 Olympics.
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In the 1930s, well before I was born, he announced motorcycle races on cinder tracks, including at Yankee Stadium, and open-cockpit midget-car races at places like the Nutley Velodrome in Nutley, N.J. It was a steeply banked board track — in effect, a giant wooden bowl — built for bicycle races.
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He pulled out with five stages remaining to focus on Rio, where he hopes to add a long-awaited Olympic medal to his CV. "For a medal Cavendish is going to be dangerous," Kluge, who finished fourth in the six-discipline omnium in London, told Reuters after a training session in the Olympic velodrome.
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The race followed the pattern of so many before as he eventually unraveled his long legs to gain maximum pace and though he did not hit the front until later than he might have liked, when he did he shot past Gatlin like a track cyclist coming out of a slipstream in the velodrome.
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