Cycling at the Games of the V Olympiad |
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The White City Stadium during the 1908 Summer Olympics |
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Track cycling | White City Stadium | ||||||
Dates | 13 July – 18 July | ||||||
Cyclists | 97 from 11 countries | ||||||
Top ranked countries | |||||||
Great Britain: | 5 | 3 | 1 | ||||
France: | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Germany: | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
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At the 1908 Summer Olympics, seven track cycling events were contested, all for men only. The weather was poor, with rainfall causing the track to flood 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.
A total of 97 cyclists from 11 nations competed at the London Games: