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 ...

One of the Olympics’ best-loved and most prominent sports, track cycling has featured at every modern Olympic Games other than Stockhom 1912, with women’s events on the track added in 1988. But Emma ...

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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 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 ...

Track cycling at the Olympics consists of three sprint events (individual sprint, team sprint, keirin) and three endurance events (Madison, omnium, team pursuit). A total of 95 men and 95 women will ...

MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France (AP) — World champion Ellesse Andrews of New Zealand won the Olympic title in the women's keirin at the Paris Games on Thursday night, holding off Dutch rider Hetty van ...

MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France — Chinese track cyclist Yuan Liying had to be helped off the track by two coaches after causing a heavy wreck when she barely missed out on advancing through the ...

A frightening incident derailed several racers in one of the final cycling stages of the 2024 Olympics. During the women’s keirin quarterfinals on Thursday, the Netherlands’ Steffie van der Peet fell ...

In the men’s final, it was a showdown of the sprinters. Netherland Harrie Lavreysen was attempting to pull off the triple crown of titles after winning the men’s individual sprint and men’s team ...