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6 unusual facts about cycling


Josefův Důl

Known as "the gateway to Jizera Mountains" it is a popular destination for skiers, hikers and cyclists.

Manuela Grillo

In 2011, after her athlete career, she is dedicated to Cycling, touching, but not reaching, the qualification to the 2012 Summer Olympic.

Matthew Hansen

Hansen created and also wrote the Symmetrics Pro Cycling's promo comic book which is the said to be the first of its kind, published by Arrival Publishing Company.

Mike Dee

Dee is also an avid cyclist participating in the Pan Mass Challenge, in addition to serving on its board.

Russell Elcock

Russell Elcock (born December 6, 1993) is a Barbadian semi-professional road cyclist who started cycling in 2006 at the age of 12 and has several National and Caribbean Championship titles under his belt in the years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.

Sydney Adventist College

Some of the sports include: Aqua Aerobics, Tennis, Laser Tag, Skateboarding, Golf, Self Defence, Ice Skating, Soccer, Surfing, Basketball, Weight Training and Cycling.


1913 Tour of Flanders

The 1913 Tour of Flanders was the 1st edition of the Tour of Flanders single-day cycling race, known as one of the Monument classics.

1928 Tour de France

It was headed by Hubert Opperman, who had been the Australian cycling champion for a few years.

2008 USA Cycling Professional Tour

Levi Leipheimer (381 points) and the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team (810 points) are the defending champion of the overall individual and team titles, respectively.

2011 British National Track Championships

The competition was staged at the National Track Cycling Centre at the Manchester Velodrome, the venue for the track cycling at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

2011 Volta ao Algarve

The 2011 Volta ao Algarve is the 37th edition of the Volta ao Algarve cycling stage race.

AgonSwim

AgonSwim produces swim suits for amateur aquatic sports using dye technology (dye sublimation) otherwise limited to use in professional sports like soccer, rugby union, cycling, and basketball.

Alexander Mironov

During his childhood he supported the cycling champion Miguel Indurain.

Bow River

The Bow River pathway, is developed on both banks of the river throughout the city of Calgary and is used for cycling, hiking, jogging, as well as rollerblading and skateboarding.

Cefn Cribwr

The community has several public footpaths and cycling routes which pass through the park following the line of the old Dyffryn, Llynfi and Porthcawl railway which linked the ironworks to the coast.

Chabařovice Lake

Cycling path with marking 3009 was opened in 2006 and it goes through the territory of outside dump of the mine with line up to Habří and Řehlovice.

In Chabařovice it connects the already built cycling path KČT (Club of Czech Tourists) with the same marking, then it goes around lake, diverges across paths in the area and finally it leads to Stadice.

Châlus

T. E. Lawrence, who would later be known as Lawrence of Arabia, celebrated his 20th birthday at the former Grand Hôtel du Midi, Place de la Fountain, on August 16, 1908, whilst tracing the route of Richard I of England, on a cycling tour of France in preparation for his thesis: The Influence of the crusades on the European military architecture at the end of the XIIth century.

Christa Luding

This made her the second woman (after Sheila Young) to become World Champion in both speed skating and cycling.

Coors Light

In the 1990s, Coors Light sponsored what was then America's most dominant domestic professional cycling team, which included Olympians Alexi Grewal, Roy Knickman and Davis Phinney.

Cycle chic

In 1995 the music and entertainment magazine of Quincy Jones, Vibe, did a list of brands that "infiltrated" cycling, mentioning brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, DKNY and FILA under the subject of cycle chic.

Cycling at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's road race

It was 87 kilometres long, with contestants cycling to the city of Marathon and back.

Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's track time trial

The men's 1 kilometre time trial in Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics was a time trial race in which each of the thirty-two cyclists attempted to set the fastest time for four laps (1 kilometre) of the track.

Cycling at the Friendship Games

The individual road race was held at the Schleizer Dreieck race track in Schleiz, East Germany on 23 August 1984, the team road race was held in Forst, East Germany on 26 August 1984, while track cycling events were held at the Velodrome of the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre in Moscow, Soviet Union between 18 and 22 August 1984.

Deep sea

Marine bacteriophages play an important role in cycling nutrients in deep sea sediments.

Doping at the 2007 Tour de France

Italian cycling journalist and former cyclist Davide Cassani told a Danish television channel that he had seen Rasmussen on June 13 and 14 in the Dolomites in Italy.

Frederick Thomas Bidlake

The magazine Cycling created its Golden Book of Cycling in 1933 to record those whose contributions to the sport it considered outstanding.

Gerda Weissensteiner

She finished seventh in the 2-woman bobsleigh (with the former biker Antonella Bellutti, gold medalist in cycling) at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Gibraltar at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games

The delegation had only male athletes and they participated in the eleven different events of athletics, cycling and swimming.

Gina Grain

Upon returning to Webcor Builders Cycling Team for another season in 2009, Grain started her stint by edging out New Zealand rider and 2008 Olympian Catherine Cheatley on a blazing sprint road race to score a second stage triumph at the Tour of the Gila in southwestern United States.

Glan-Münchweiler station

The Glan-Blies-Weg cycling and hiking trail passes just to the east of the station, running to the south along the former Glan Valley Railway railway to Waldmohr and to the north over long sections of the now dismantled second track of the line to Kusel.

High-intensity interval training

In a BBC Horizon programme in February 2012, he put Michael J. Mosley on an exercise bike regimen consisting of three sets of about 2 minutes of gentle pedalling followed by 20 second bursts of cycling at maximum effort.

International Cycling Association

"After a modest start in the early 1890s," said the British cycling official George Herbert Stancer, "the ICA achieved considerable success, eventually gaining the support of all the important sport-controlling bodies in the cycling world.

International Tour de Toona

The event became the largest pro-am cycling event in North America and had stages spanning Blair, Cambria, Bedford, and Somerset Counties in Pennsylvania.

Jérôme Neuville

He had a break in his track cycling career between 1999 and 2002, during which time he competed on the road as a professional cyclist with the Crédit Agricole team (1999 to 2001), and Cofidis (2002).

John Wilcockson

John Wilcockson is a British sports journalist and author who has covered professional cycling for over 40 years, reporting on major cycling events for NPR and the BBC World Service, and publishing articles in The New York Times, Outside, Men’s Journal and The Times, among others.

Lčovice

There is a kiosk in lower Lčovice which is a pub, where you can sit outside next to the Volynka and is perfect after a long walk (or a refreshing drink after cycling on the 1233 cycle route).

Leopold König

However both these wins were eclipsed in September 2013 when he claimed his team's maiden Grand Tour victory when winning the mountain stage to Alto Pena Blancas after catching climber Igor Antón in the final 500 metres.

Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail

The trail's compacted gravel surface between Lilydale and Millgrove is pram and wheelchair friendly and accommodates activities such as walking, cycling and horse riding.

Loveland Bike Trail

The Tour de Loveland, an annual cycling race named after the Tour de France, was started in the 1990s, to promote the Loveland Bike Trail as the centerpiece of Historic Downtown Loveland.

Michael Jayston

In the last 2 years, he has read a new abridged recording of Geoffrey Household's sequel Rogue Justice, (also on BBC Radio 7) and in 2010 he also lent his voice to a series of vocal interludes on an album celebrating the Giro d'Italia, released in May by British cycling clothing company Rapha.

Mohammed bin Sulayem

The Club is the official representative in the Emirates of the FIA, motor sport’s world governing body, and its motor cycling, karting and classic car counterparts, the FIM, CIK and FIVA.

Newark Velodrome

The event was sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale, the world governing body for the cycling sport.

Nicolas Roche

Roche, who was born in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France, is the son of former cycling champion Stephen Roche and his former wife, Lydia, nephew of former cycling professional Lawrence Roche and cousin of 2008 Irish road champion Daniel Martin.

Oppy

the nickname of Hubert Opperman, Australian cyclist and politician, whose endurance cycling feats in the 1920s and 1930s earned him international acclaim

Phil Bayton

Joining the Thornhill Cycling Club in Birmingham he won a handicap race at Hirwaun in South Wales as a 16 year old junior and a year later was part of the GB Olympic squad under Norman Sheil.

Robert Graeme Galbraith

His other great interests included cycling, where he was a member of a road-racing club, and Jazz music of which he remained a dedicated and lifelong fan.

Sainik School, Amaravathinagar

Football, hockey, volleyball, basketball, cricket, athletics, cross-country running, swimming, gymnastics, canoeing, cycling, horse riding, mountaineering, parasailing, trekking (hiking), obstacles course, rifle shooting, boxing, NCC,karate,music clubs, literary clubs, theater arts, elocution, photography, fine arts, craftwork, philately, aero-modeling, ship-modeling, Marching band, Choir

Scratch track

Scratch track race or Scratch race, a track cycling discipline in which all riders start together

Ton van Engelen

Since 1996 he has been working for the Rabobank team and in 2007 he was honoured by the organiser for being active in his twentieth Tour de France.

Willie Hume

Hume's achievements were celebrated in 1938 when Cycling Weekly, then known simply as Cycling awarded him his own page in the Golden Book of Cycling.

Wolfgang Fasching

2011 RAAM winner and fellow Austrian Christoph Strasser has stated that his decision to begin ultra cycling was inspired by Fasching, and Fasching has subsequently mentored Strasser.

World University Cycling Championship – Road Cycling

World University Cycling Championship – Road Cycling are the world university championship races for road bicycle racing.

Yo-yo effect

Yo-yo dieting or yo-yo effect, also known as weight cycling, is a term "yo-yo dieting" coined by Kelly D. Brownell at Yale University, in reference to the cyclical loss and gain of weight, resembling the up-down motion of a yo-yo.


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