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A quote from the Lee Valley Website
http://www.visitleevalley.org.uk/en/content/cms/london2012/velo-park/
The 6,000 seat Velodrome: world records broken, seven of 10 medals won by Team GB at the London 2012 Games, award winning for its architecture, designed for the very highest level of international cycling competition and from early 2014, open for cyclists of all abilities to enjoy. Track cycling has never been the easiest sport to simply ‘try your hand at’, but at the Velodrome, taster courses will mean that everyone can have a go. Who knows, you could be ‘discovered’ by the Velodrome’s resident talent scouts!
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So now we know why it is taking them so long to open to the public. Having stripped out the Olympic element, they are constructing social housing for the newly created posts of resident talent scouts.
But there is hope. The above LV statement does say, *'and from early 2014, open for cyclists of all abilities to enjoy.' *
Being of a somewhat egostitical and eliteist dispostion, I read this as 'cyclists who have never ridden a steeply banked track will have to wait until the official opening, early 2014, though we will be inviting experienced cyclists to use the velodrome as part of our soft landings approach to opening the facility to the public, this avoiding the debacle that occured when the White Water Centre opened to the public and we were overwhelmed.
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