Cycling At The 1908 Summer Olympics
At the 1908 Summer Olympics, seven track cycling events were contested, all for men only. The weather was poor, flooding the track on occasion. The track was 660 yards long (being built around the perimeter of the White City Stadium's athletics track); some events (the 660 yards and the team pursuit) used full laps of the track; the others used metric distances.
| Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics |
||
|---|---|---|
| Track cycling |
||
| 660 yards | men | |
| 5000 metres | men | |
| 20 kilometres | men | |
| 100 kilometres | men | |
| Sprint | men | |
| Tandem | men | |
| Team pursuit | men | |
Read more about Cycling At The 1908 Summer Olympics: Medal Summary, Participating Nations, Medal Table
Famous quotes containing the words cycling and/or summer:
“From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
—Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
“They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead,
That all of thee we loved and cherished
Has with thy summer roses perished;
And left, as its young beauty fled,
An ashen memory in its stead.”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)