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Key facts
- Highest governing body
- UCI
- Contact
- No, although occasionally unavoidable
- Team members
- Individuals and team
- Mixed sex
- No
- Type
- Cycle sport
- Equipment
- Track bicycle
- Venue
- Velodrome
- Country or region
- Worldwide
- Olympic
- Yes, men's since 1896 and women's since 1984 (with restrictions until 2012)
- Paralympic
- Yes, men's and women's since 1996
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Pictogram for Cycling at the Summer Olympics Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “track cycling” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.