IZU, Japan (Reuters) - Yuka Kobayashi broke new ground this week when she became the first female Japanese rider to compete at the Olympics in a keirin -- a cycling race ingrained in the country's ...

Harrie Lavreysen added keirin gold to sprint and team sprint glory at the Paris Olympics on Sunday to underline the current Dutch domination of track cycling. He followed in the slipsteam of British ...

The UCI Fastest Man & Woman on Wheels got underway Thursday night at Valley Preferred Cycling Center in Breinigsville. The ...

Reporting from Rio de Janeiro — A green-and-white scooter buzzes along, its electric motor humming as it circles the polished wooden track at the Olympic velodrome. Ivo Siebert keeps to a modest pace ...

One of the curiosities of the track racing programme at the Paris Olympic Games is the Keirin, where riders are paced behind a motorbike before sprinting for the line. Starting out on August 7 and ...

The Tokyo Olympics track cycling competition will be held in the Izu Velodrome from 2 to 8 August. Inside the venue, the tracks are surfaced with Siberian pine, 250m in length, 7.5m in width with a ...

The track cycling events at the Paris Olympics begin on Monday, August 5 and conclude on August 11 at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome outside Paris. The men's Keirin will begin on August 10 ...

SAINT QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France, Aug 8 (Reuters) - World champion Ellesse Andrews surged to gold in the women's keirin on Thursday to end a 20-year wait for a New Zealand track cycling title at the ...

Sign up for our Metro US email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! IZU, Japan (Reuters) – Track sprint king Jason ...