Philip Hindes

Philip Hindes competed in CYCLING - TRACK

Did you know?

• Track cycling was Great Britain's most successful discipline at the 2008 Olympics.
• There are 10 Olympic track cycling events (five for men, five for women), including a brand new one – the Omnium.
• The Omnium is the equivalent of the decathlon in athletics, with individual riders competing against each other across six different disciplines on the track.
• Each nation can now enter only one athlete/team in each event. In Beijing, Britain won more than one medal in four different events.
• The track in the new Velodrome has been laid with 5-metre lengths of Siberian pine, and is banked to an angle of 42 degrees at its steepest point.