Track Cycling

Track cycling is an Olympic cycling sport ridden on a wooden or concrete oval track (velodrome) with steep turns. 

Bicycles: No brakes, fixed gear (single-speed), very lightweight. 

Distances: From 200 meters (sprint) to 4,000 meters (team pursuit). 

Disciplines: 

Sprint (individual & teams): pure speed and tactics. 

Keirin: start behind a motorcycle, followed by a sprint. 

Pursuit: individual or team (team pursuit). 

Omnium: combination of multiple events (all-rounder). 

Madison, points race, scratch, tempo race. 

Popular events: 

Olympic Games. 

World Track Cycling Championships. 

World Cup. 

Six-Day Races (including Rotterdam, Ghent). 

It is a very spectacular, tactical, and explosive sport with high speeds (up to >70 km/h in the turns). 

The Netherlands and Belgium have a strong tradition (think of athletes like Harrie Lavreysen, Jeffrey Hoogland, Shanne Braspennincx, etc.). 

In short: pure speed, power, and smart tactics on a wooden oval!

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BMX

BMX is a spectacular cycling sport with 20-inch bicycles, featuring lightning-fast races (BMX Racing, Olympic since 2008) and creative tricks (BMX Freestyle, Olympic since 2020). 

The Netherlands is the world leader in racing, and the freestyle scene is growing rapidly.

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Cycloball

Cycloball (also called bicycle ball or radball) is an indoor team sport in which two teams of two players ride special bicycles and try to get a ball into each other's goal, similar to soccer. 

The ball is controlled with the front or back wheel of the bicycle or with the body (especially the head), but hands and feet are not allowed, except by the goalkeeper when defending. 

The game is played on an 11x14 meter field, with matches lasting 2x7 minutes. 

Cycloball requires agility, balance, and explosive power. 

The sport, founded in 1893 by Nicholas Kaufmann, is popular in countries such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Japan, with a world championship held since 1930 under the auspices of the UCI.

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Handcycling

Handcycling is a sport in which you use your arms to propel a bicycle instead of your legs, often practiced by people with lower limb disabilities. 

It is performed using a handcycle, a three-wheeled vehicle with a crank drive that is operated by the hands. Handcycling is popular as a recreational activity and as a competitive sport, with disciplines including road races and time trials. 

It has also been a Paralympic sport since 2004. 

The sport promotes physical fitness, endurance and independence, and is often used in rehabilitation programs.

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Mountain biking

Mountain biking is a sport, more specifically a branch of cycling, in which one rides over rough terrain, usually with a specially designed mountain bike. 

It is both a competitive and recreational sport. 

The most important competitions are the world championships and the world cup.

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Biketrial

Biketrial is actually a marriage between motorcycle trial and mountain bike, because these are the basic principles of one of the current off-road bike disciplines. 

Originally, it were motorcyclists who came up with the idea of ​​cultivating talent for motorcycle trial by having young people practice on BMX and mountain bike. 

Trial biking is a cycling sport that focuses on taking obstacles. 

Examples include curbs, oil drums, mud pools, tree trunks and even cars. 

The idea is that the trial biker does not put his feet on the ground while taking these obstacles. 

It requires a lot of balance and agility to be able to do this. 

These skills can be very useful in other forms of cycling, such as in everyday life and on a racing bike or mountain bike. 

This sport can be practiced anywhere, just on the street, but also in competition, for example.

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Cyclocross

Cyclocross is a form of cycling that is practiced on a largely unpaved course. 

This sport is especially popular in the Netherlands and Belgium.

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Road cycling

Road cycling is the most popular branch of cycling. 

In road cycling, competitions take place on the road. 

Competitions are held in both multi-day and one-day competitions. 

Within the one-day competitions, the classics and the world championships are the most important.

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Biathlon

Biathlon is a ski sport, namely a cross-country skiing competition in which participants have to shoot at a target at certain points. 

If this goal is missed, this means loss of time in most variants, because an extra penalty lap must be completed before one can continue on the actual course.

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Bobsleigh

Bobsleigh is an Olympic winter sport in which a winding ice course is covered in a steerable sled fitted with a fairing. 

Bobsleigh is derived from the English verb to bob, which means to move up and down.

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