2012 Olympic mountain bike course gets thumbs up
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- Created on Thursday, 04 November 2010 15:08
- Written by Dena Rosenberry
Looks like a fun place to ride!!
After the UCI rejected the site of the first 2012 London Olympic cross-country venue two years ago because it was too easy, the subsequent choice has been deemed a “stunning, challenging” course.
Following a recent visit to the 550-acre Hadleigh Farm in Essex, Peter Van den Abeele, technical delegate of the UCI, said the course — 40 to 50km for men’s elite and 30 to 40km for women’s elite — is shaping into a technical challenge.
Maddie Horton, who won the silver medal at the 2010 British Cross Country Mountain Bike Championships, said, “the course is great – much more hilly than I expected. I’ve ridden World Cup courses before, and this is definitely up there with the toughest.”
Read the full story on the 2012 Olympic mountain biking course at the Singletrack website.
The Singletrack photo caption says that's a view of 700-year-old ruins of Hadleigh Castle, which was built in the 1230s during the reign of King Henry III.
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