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Cycling at the Summer Olympics. Cycling has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics, at which a road race and five track events were held. Mountain bike racing entered the Olympic programme at the Atlanta Olympics, followed by BMX racing in 2008 and freestyle BMX in ...
The cycling competitions of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris occurred at four different venues (Pont d'Iéna for road and time trial races; Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines for track cycling and BMX racing; Élancourt Hill for mountain biking; and Place de la Concorde for the BMX freestyle), from 27 July to 11 August, featuring twenty ...
Track cycling has been featured in every modern Olympic Games except the 1912 Games. Women's track cycling events were first included in the modern Olympics in 1988. [ 4 ] The sport was moved indoors since 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , Australia, mainly because of the hot weather.
Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Pictograms from top, left to right: BMX Freestyle, BMX Racing, Road, Mountain and Track cycling. The cycling competitions of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo featured 22 events in five disciplines. [1][2][3][4][5] The 2020 Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [6]
2024 Olympic Games. Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. [4] 4000 m individual pursuit. (progression) 4:14.982. Lasse Norman Hansen. Denmark. 14 August 2016.
Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. This article details the qualifying phase for cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics. A total of 514 cyclists, with an equal distribution between men and women, competed in twenty-two medal events across five disciplines (road, track, mountain biking, BMX racing, and BMX freestyle) at these Games.
With three gold medals on the road, the most successful Olympic road cyclist is Viatcheslav Ekimov of Russia and the Soviet Union (Ekimov had a fourth gold on the track). ). Only one rider has won gold in both the road race and the road time trial at the same Olympic Games; Remco Evenepoel of Belgium in Paris 2
The individual sprint is a track cycling event held at the Summer Olympics. The event was first held for men at the first modern Olympics in 1896. It was held again in 1900, but not in 1904 when various races at different distances were conducted. The men's sprint returned to the programme in 1908 but was again omitted in 1912, when only road ...