Olympic Preview: Cycling This Day in history Today s Birthday Word of the Day The olympic cyclingcompetition features three disciplinesMountain biking, road racing, http://www.infoplease.com/spot/ol-cycling.html
Extractions: Mountain biking debuted at the Games in Atlanta and differs from road and track in that the bikes used are heavier-duty, with larger, knobby tires, and race courses comprise undulating and sometimes very narrow dirt trails over periodic obstacles. In Athens the men will race somewhere between 40 and 50 kilometers and the women will go 30 to 40 km. The actual race distance isn't decided until the night before the race, when the event officials consider weather conditions. They aim for the men's race to last approximately two hours and 15 minutes and the women's race to last about two hours. Unlike road and track cycling, the mountain bike riders may receive no outside assistance during the race. They must make all repairs to their bikes themselves.
CYCLING of professionals means that the field will be the strongest in olympic history . Dunc Gray was Australia s firstever olympic cycling gold medallist. http://abc.net.au/olympics_1996/cycling.htm
Extractions: What A Record! The Olympic cycling program has undergone some big changes since Barcelona, with professionals eligible to compete for the first time and the introduction of mountain biking into the Olympic program. It is on the temporary velodrome at Stone Mountain Park that Australia is likely to dominate - if last year's World Championships in Colombia are an accurate barometer. Australia's men left there with three gold and two bronze medals. World champion, Darryn Hill, and Olympic veteran, Gary Neiwand, are on target to finish one-two in the sprint. But the reigning Olympic champion, Jens Fiedler, and the evergreen Canadian Curt Harnett, no doubt have other ideas.
1956 MELBOURNE OLYMPIC GAMES Dick Ploog also won a bronze in 1000m sprint cycling. The Melbourne Olympicsalso created history by virtue of the way they finished. http://abc.net.au/olympics_1996/game1956.htm
Extractions: The Olympics came to Australia for the first time in 1956. Against all odds Melbourne was host to the world's greatest sporting festival. The idea for the Olympics to come south was first mooted back in the 1920s, when James Pa' Taylor, only the second person from Australasia to be appointed to the International Olympic Committee, lobbied for Australia to be awarded the 1936 Olympics. His efforts were in vain, and the Games did not come down-under until 12 years after his death. There were many people involved in the efforts to persuade the IOC that Melbourne should have the 1956 Games, not the least Frank Beaurepaire, the great swimmer who won six medals in an Olympic career stretching from 1908 to 1924. He was Lord Mayor of Melbourne between 1940 and 1942 and worked long and hard to persuade, firstly, Australian business and government leaders and then, the Olympic chiefs that Melbourne deserved the honour. When his efforts succeeded he was again elected Lord Mayor so he could be the official host. Sadly, he died of a heart attack seven months before the Games opened. There were many problems before the Games actually took place. Because of Australia's stringent animal quarantine laws one of the sports, the equestrian events, were for the one and only time held in a different location - in this case, Stockholm in Sweden. There were arguments about where the main stadium should be, and for a while there was so much industrial unrest and lack of endeavour that it looked a real possibility that there would be another first - the relocation of the Olympics to another country.
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Times Online - Olympics CHOOSE A SECTION IN cycling. Select from dropdown The competition, Records,Ancient origins, olympic history, Sydney results, GB squad, Qualifying http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,10519,00.html
Extractions: NI_IFRAME('Top'); ARCHIVE CLASSIFIED SHOPPING PROMOTIONS ... WEATHER Search OLYMPICS Athens news Daily log Aquatics ... Credits TIMES ONLINE Home Britain World Business ... Site Map SPECIAL REPORTS Management Issues Making Skills Work European Cities Arts Power 100 ... Other Data and charting from Hemscott unless otherwise indicated. Data delayed by at least 20 minutes Bradley Wiggins is Britain's most successful Olympian in a single Games since 1908 CHOOSE A SECTION IN CYCLING Select from dropdown Select section here The competition Records Ancient origins Olympic history Sydney results GB squad Qualifying CHOOSE A DIFFERENT SPORT Select from dropdown Select a sport here Aquatics Archery Athletics Badminton Baseball Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Equestrianism Fencing Football Gymnastics Handball Hockey Judo Modern Pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Softball Table Tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Weightlifting Wrestling EDITOR'S OLYMPIC GAMES LOG GAMES LOG SELECT A DAY Sunday August 29 Saturday August 28 Friday August 27 Thursday August 26 Wednesday August 25 Tuesday August 24 Monday August 23 Sunday August 22 Saturday August 21 Friday August 20 Thursday August 19 Wednesday August 18 Tuesday August 17 Monday August 16 Sunday August 15 Saturday August 14 WHAT'S ON IN ATHENS TODAY?
Extractions: NI_IFRAME('Top'); ARCHIVE CLASSIFIED SHOPPING PROMOTIONS ... WEATHER Search OLYMPICS Athens news Daily log Aquatics ... Credits TIMES ONLINE Home Britain World Business ... Site Map SPECIAL REPORTS Management Issues Making Skills Work European Cities Arts Power 100 ... Other Data and charting from Hemscott unless otherwise indicated. Data delayed by at least 20 minutes Photo:Greg Wood BRADLEY WIGGINS was promising to celebrate long into the Athenian night after he entered Olympic history yesterday in the most dramatic fashion, snatching a bronze medal at the last moment of a thrilling madison race to join Mary Rand as the most successful British Olympian in a single Games since they were staged in London in 1908. Wiggins, who in six frenetic days of cycling took gold, silver and bronze medals in different disciplines in the Olympic velodrome, was left almost speechless. NI_MPU('middle');
NZ Summer Olympic History NZ Summer olympic history. 1908, For the 1908 Games in London and the 1912 Games Bronze medals went to Gary Anderson in cycling s 4000 metres individual http://www.olympic.org.nz/Article.aspx?ID=343
NZ Winter Olympic History NZ Winter olympic history. 1952, OSLO, NORWAY. New Zealand made their first Harris would represent her country in cycling at the Summer olympics in http://www.olympic.org.nz/Article.aspx?ID=340
Daily Peloton - Pro Cycling News Current Weather at olympic Venues. history of cycling at the olympic Games.cycling is one of the few sports that has been on the programme of every olympic http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=6816
Speedway Wheelmen History olympic style bicycle racing is sanctioned by the US cycling Federation, whichranks riders from category 5 (least experienced) to category 1 (most http://www.truesport.com/SpeedwayWheelmen/history.html
Extractions: Team History Formed in 1960, in Speedway, Indiana, the Speedway Wheelmen is the oldest cycling team in Indiana. The team started with fifteen members and has seen its ranks swell to as many as one hundred. Nearly all of the cycling teams and clubs that have formed in Central Indiana since then have had ties back to the Speedway Wheelmen. Cycling tradition in Indiana has to include IU's Little 500 and the movie "Breaking Away". Did you know that Dave Blase, a Speedway Wheelmen, was the Real "Dave Stoller", on which the movie "Breaking Away" is based? The Speedway Wheelmen regularly produce high caliber cyclists, placing both locally and nationally, wearing our colors of orange and blue. Erin Hartwell got his start as a Speedway Wheelmen and has medalled in the 87, 89, 90, and 94 National Championships and also the 92 and 96 Olympic Games!
Michigan Athletes Have Made Olympic History He had won by the largest margin for any weight class in olympic history. He alsosnatched the gold. She held world titles in speedskating and cycling. http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=148&category=sports
Competition Was A Way Of Life For Detroit Speed Skater Her life was a whirlwind of art, skating and cycling. This was the first timeskating for women was on the olympic program, and Omelenchuk was the http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=170&category=people
History The official website of the ATHENS 2004 olympic Games Games of the XXVIII Olympiad,Site Language Home Sports cycling history http://www.athens2004.gr/en/CyclingHistory
Extractions: Home Sports Cycling History Javascript must be enabled to view this page, although the important information on the page is also available to browsers that do not support scripts. The first bicycle was built in 1790 by a French aristocrat, Count Sivrac. It was made of wood and had no steering wheel or pedal. Forward motion was possible only by thrusting oneâs feet towards the ground, one after the other. In 1817, the German aristocrat Baron von Drais introduced the concept of turning the front wheel in different directions. In 1861 the motive power was invented by Pierre Michaux, and later perfected by an Englishman, J. K. Stanley. In 1887 an Irishman, John Boyd Dunlop, invented the inner tube, which was later refined by Edouard and Andre Michelin. The first bicycle race took place in 1868 in Paris. The first World Championship was held in 1895. The original two cycling disciplines â Road race and Track cycling â were included in the first Olympic Games of modern times in Athens in 1896. A Greek athlete, Aristides Konstantinidis, was crowned gold Olympic winner on March 31, 1896 for the 87km endurance road race, which started from Athens, went out to Marathon and ended at Faliro. At that first modern Olympic Games in 1896, the track events were held at the Faliro Velodrome â what is today known as the Karaiskaki Football Stadium.
DJournalist- Trinidad And Tobago-Olympic History 1 FIFTY YEARS HAVE PASSED since Trinidad and Tobago began its olympic journey. Leslie King superseded Gibbon on the cycling track, recording a 19th place http://djournalist.tripod.com/olympichistory.htm
DJournalist- Trinidad And Tobago-Olympic History Part 3 The 1992 olympic Games in Barcelona came off at the beginning of a new era. and a third place finish at the World cycling Championships in Stuttgart. http://djournalist.tripod.com/olympic3.htm
Extractions: Delice was a team mate of Morris' from Seoul, while Guy also had a fair amount of experience, De Silva was making inroads at both the 200 and 400m and 18 year old Boldon had developed into a meteoric sensation: He recorded an impressive 200m victory at the National Championships and then copped the 100-200 double at the CAC Junior Championships in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. go back up
Utahn Flirts With Olympic History SYDNEY Utahn Chris Witty flirted with olympic sports history Saturday night . With little international cycling competition since the 1998 Nagano http://deseretnews.com/sydney/view/1,3466,195014616,00.html
Extractions: After her two laps around the 250-meter track and her 35 seconds of participation in the 2000 Sydney Summer Games, the Park City resident and two-season Olympian walked away without having her name further etched in annals of athletic achievement. What she did carry with her was the satisfaction of improving her personal record and finishing among the top five athletes in her second-best sport.
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS cycling Road history The Europeans have dominated olympic cycling, notablythe French and Italians. However, the Eastern Europeans have also won many http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/history_uk.asp?DiscCode=CR&sportCode=
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - SPORTS cycling Track history In 1984, women were admitted to olympic cycling witha single road race. In 1988 a sprint race on the track for women was also http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/history_uk.asp?DiscCode=CT&sportCode=
CYCLING - Olympic Wrap-Up Report by one of the greatest single day performances by US cycling athletes inOlympic history, USA cycling. Phone, Greece 210003-0801; US 719-866-4867. http://www.usocpressbox.org/usoc/pressbox.nsf/0/dbe58bcf93e0ca0685256eff00347f34
