Cycling
Introduction to Cycling
Cycling made its Olympic debut in the inaugural modern Summer Games in Athens, Greece, in 1896. That year, road race competitors did two laps of the marathon route from Athens to Marathon and back – a total distance of 87 kilometres. Although road racing was absent from the schedule in 1900, 1904 and 1908, it has been part of the rosta of sports ever since.
A team road race event was added to the programme in 1912, but it was dropped in 1956 in favour of a 100km team time trial that stayed on the schedule until 1992, when it was replaced by an individual time trial. A women's road race was added in 1984, with individual road time trials for women joining the schedule in 1996. For contact details of Cycling Ireland please click on Full story
OCI to support Cycling's plans for next Olympiad
Philip Leigh has been appointed as the new high performance director for Irish cycling to help it prepare for the London 2012 Olympics.
David O’Loughlin Gains Cycling Spot For Beijing
The Olympic Council of Ireland has announced that Ireland has been allocated a Beijing Olympic Games spot for pursuit cyclist David O’Loughlin following an intensive lobbying campaign with the International Cycling Union (ICU).
London 2012