Road Cycling featured at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, with an 87km
race that started and finished in Athens. There was no Road Cycling event at the
next three Games, but the discipline was reintroduced in 1912 and has been a
permanent part of the Olympic programme ever since
Track Cycling has featured at every Games but one since the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, while Mountain Bike made its debut at Atlanta 1996.
Having made its debut at the Beijing 2008 Games, BMX Cycling is the most
recent discipline to have been added to the Olympic programme.
The British Cycling Pursuit team won the gold medal at the London 1908 Games over a distance of 1810.5 metres (later to become 4000 metres). L-R: Leonard Meredith, Ernest Payne, Charles Kingsbury, Benjamin Jones.
Chris Hoy of Great Britain competes on his way to breaking an Olympic record while qualifying for the men's Sprint event held at the Laoshan Velodrome during Beijing 2008 Games.
