1.   Dale Hughes painted the hundreds of metal parts of his Olympic cycling track red, green and blue because he wanted it to look like a giant Tinkertoy set.

2.   For four years, for more hours in the gym and on the cycling track than he could remember, Marty Nothstein thought of little else.

3.   The cycling track, called a velodrome, is completely portable.

4.   Other big-ticket items would be a new cycling track and a new sports arena, he said.

5.   An amusement park with a wave pool and an Olympic cycling track in the state capital symbolize the promise that oil held out for Arauca.

6.   Germany won three gold medals on the cycling track, while American Marty Nothstein was fined for a crash that sent four riders to the hospital.

7.   Smirnov said his experts told him that conditions at the Olympic cycling track were the worst they had ever seen.

8.   Smirnov also said Russian experts had reported to him that conditions at the Olympic cycling track were the worst they had ever seen.

9.   The sprint races, with seeds and rounds such as in tennis tournaments, were held on artificial snow at a ring prepared inside the renowned cycling track Vigorelli.