To seed their efforts in qualifying, each sprinter will do a flying 200m time ... of coaches inside the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome earlier this week, and was told that the atmospheric ...

What makes the Olympic velodrome so fast ... The reason is simple: warm air is less dense than cold air. So when a sprinter such as Hoogland from the Dutch team is pumping out 2,000 watts of ...

The velodrome is the home of track cycling ... The red line is known as the sprinter's line - riders have to go round this if they want to overtake a lead rider. Then there's the black line - the ...

It has been searingly hot inside the velodrome at the Paris Olympics ... warm air is less dense than cold air. So when a sprinter such as Hoogland from the Dutch team is pumping out 2,000 watts ...