British cyclist dominate the world indoor track championships
A huge congratulations to the British cycling team who dominated the world indoor track championships again beating last years amazing tally of 7 golds with 9 this year and breaking 3 world records on the way.
Its amazing we do so well at this sport with the limited facilities available to train, there are only 3 velodromes in the whole of the UK, OK manchester is a world class facility but its location will limit the number of people who can have access on a regular basis.
Lets hope we do this well in China !!
Posted at 09:38AM Mar 31, 2008 by Simon Bullen in Cycling | Comments[4]
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There are more than 3 velodromes in the UK. Not enough but still more than 3.
IIRC, Portsmouth, Newport, Cardiff, Ca r marthen, Manchester, Edinburgh (although that may be closing), Hearn Hill (out door), Reading and Manchester. Until recently there was one in the East End of London as well. Those are just the ones I have heard of. I imagine there must be one in East Anglia as well but if there is I've not heard of it.
Still a great result for track cycling in Britain.
A quick google suggests 20. http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/fac/facilities_search.asp?fac_cp=1&fac_mode=0&fac_id=&fac_myfacilities=No&RefID=&RefType=&fac_kw=&fac_regions=All+Regions&fac_disc=Track+Racing&fac_resultspp=20
Posted by Chris Gerhard on March 31, 2008 at 01:57 PM BST #
"manchester is a world class facility but its location will limit the number of people who can have access on a regular basis. "
There are 12 million people in the NW/Yorkshire/Humberside area of the UK, nearly 2.5 million of whom live in the Greater Manchester area. Are you trying to say that's not enough people to justify the Velodrome? Or is it just a case of rampant southern bias, yet again?
Posted by 192.18.1.36 on May 09, 2008 at 10:40 AM BST #
its a sad day when people use the north/south devide to take a statement out of context, I was trying to say that there should be more facilities like Manchester across the whole of the UK.
Posted by simon on May 09, 2008 at 02:16 PM BST #
Time ot update the cylcing part to include the Olympics, no?
Come on SB, get to it ;-)
Posted by jason on September 01, 2008 at 12:03 PM BST #