Monday 21 February 2011

Velodrome for London 2012 Olympics to open

For the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics 6000 seat velodrome will open on Tuesday.

At the Olympic Park in east London,for indoor cycling and BMX events the venue will be the first to be completed.

Felped in the design of the velodrome has been taken by Chris Hoy, who won three cycling gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games.

"I believe the new velodrome is going to be the best in the world. I can't actually wait until 2012 when I can compete on it," Hoy said.

"It will be nice when we turn up on race day for the first day of competition at the Olympics.

"All of the Union Jacks will be out and, hopefully, the noise and the atmosphere will give us an advantage - maybe put the fear of death into the other countries too."

Hoy added: "The 360 degree seating means that no matter where you are in the stadium you can see the full track and there's seats the whole way around.

"So, instead of having noise in the back-straight and the home-straight as you go around you get this wall of noise the whole way and it creates this gladiatorial arena."

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