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¿What is cycling?
Cycling is one of the sports that has several activities,
where we use the bike. The history of cycling start
from the first bicycles, but its development occurred
in XVIII, this vehicle had created Pierre Michaux,
Kirkpatrick Macmillan, and Pierre Lallement, but the
cycling like a sport born in Alemania in 1817, in
modern times, now in the world are more than 800
million bicycles, that's twice of the number of cars!

1867 1839
The metal wheels were The first bicycle called
created, which improved the velocipedo was created
bike.

1870
Thomas Steves was a rider
who around the world for
1935 the first time
The first competitions in
the world of cycling

2015 1987
The brand le coq sportif The first mountain bikes
presents the first qualifiers were created
for the tour de france

¡Important events of the
-British Columbia Bike
Race, Canada
01
It is a race of mountain biking
which have 7 stages that are
completed in 7 days this race is
made on July in British in
Columbia Canada.
there are 600 riders who
travel 50 km a day. Every year
can have a modification in the
race track but the most usually
02
is that it will have to be done
on the Vancouver Island,
Sunshine Coast and Sea to Sky
Corridor.
-X Games 03
The XGames is a championship
of extreme sports like bmx
freestyle, this championship
was created on June 24, 1995
in Providence and Newport
(USA) with several sports in it.
This event brings together 04
many professionals for each
sport and the best will have
the gold medal, the second the
silver medal and the third the
bronze medal and also 1.65
million in awards for the best.
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cycling!
-The France tour
Road cycling The Tour de France is a road
-The France tour cycling world championship,
this race is divided into 21
professional stages which is
debated in French territory but
can also pass through
neighboring countries, this
race is celebrated every year in
Mountain Bike July and is considered the most
important road cycling race.
-British Columbia
Bike Race, Canada
BMX freestyle -UCI BMX world
championship
-X Games
It is the world championship of
bmx racing this is organized
since 1982 by the UCI, but before
it didn’t used to the mandate of
BMX race the UCI, the event is annual and
-UCI BMX world the duration is 3 days to find the
championship winner of the gold medal and
jersey also the second and third
place with silver and bronze
medals.
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Road cycling
The Road cycling is a form of
competitive cycling which is founded on
competing in a race on asphalt, its
tracks are roads of the country in which
they are competing. This sport is very
demanding and you will have to have a
lot of practice to be able to compete.
The professionals dispute the so-called
"Grand Tours" which are the Tour de
France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España,
but they would rather win a tour of
France because it is the longest and
most important.

History
The first competition reported in the world on a road race was on May
31th, 1868. This race would have a circuit
very short with only 1200 m in France (Paris) there were also very few
riders and they used to use a bicycle made of wood.
A year after the first race there were already many more people
interested in this sport and where they attended, after on November 7th,
1869, the second important race in the history of cycling was made in
Paris with many competitors and a very large circuit. longest with 123
km. The winner of this competition was James Moore with a time of 10
hours and 45 minutes.
From that moment they created more competitions worldwide like
tests in Spain and America and the first organizations of cyclists.
The tests
In road cycling there are 3 types of tests: the classic, the stage races and the career time trials.
The classic
This race is called classic because they are only for one day and most of these are made in Western Europe such
as France, Italy and Belgium, they are also getting used to being called that way by some circuits like the
Milan-San Remo, the Tour of Flanders , Paris-Roubaix, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour of Lombardy
The stage races
This test takes many days to complete since it is a long circuit, in the race the times that are obtained when
completing each stage are added points for the other days and for this be able to qualify for the next stage.

The career time trials

The time trial races are done alone and are done with departures separated one minute by minute each rider in
the shorter distances or it can also be 3 minutes for best distances.
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ROAD CYCLING NEWS

Primoz Roglic he is
the best rider in the
history of La Vuelta
españa

Primoz Roglic is called the best rider because he knew how to win the race although his rivals were close to
being able to overtake him like his rival Egan bernal who was very close to the last 60 km of the lap but would
rather maintain calm in order to win.

He will have
one more
triumph for
the golden
books of the
Spanish race
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Best road cycling riders

Primoz Roglic

Primoz Roglic was born on October 29, 1989, he is 31 years

old and from Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia, he used to lose
weight for his next careers

Tadej Pogacar

Tadej Pogacar is a cyclist who was born on

September 21, 1998 in Komenda, Slovenia, he has
been the champion of the most important award in
the Tour de France

Egan bernal

Egan Bernal is a Colombian cyclist born on January 13,

1997 in the city of Bogota. egan said he would rather win
the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España than win the tour de
france again
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MOUNTAIN BIKE

Mountain biking it's different from other types of

cycling because it practice in a natural place and is
where it is practiced. Another difference is the type of
bicycles used that are mountain bikes (MTB), this bike
have suspension and there are many ways to mount the
bike:

Enduro is one of them, mountain biking was born in

1976 when a group of friends, riding bicycles, start to
climb the mountains of California, United States, and
compete to see who is the first down the mountain.
That's basically Enduro, and that's why it's a lot of
people that would prefer start to ride this way

Downhill This is one of the types of MTB. The rules of this modality are very simple. It is similar to Enduro, with
the difference that in the climb the rider cant pedaling. The athletes are used to climb with electric chairs, and
Downhill competitions are used to close during the summer months. Also downhill is one of the most dangerous
mountain biking disciplines.

Cross-Country is probably the most famous specialty in mountain biking. It became an Olympic sport in 1996
and is the only form of MTB present in the Olympic Games. It is used to practiced in the countryside. The
courses include climbs, descents and horizontal terrain. In other parts, it can include some part with cement

Freeride is a MTB specialty that its similar to Downhill

riders used to practice it in natural environments as the
downhill, but has differences, the most people would rather
that the track has several ramps so that the rider can be in
the air for to do tricks.

Four-Cross is practice on a track similar to a BMX track.

It is an explosive sport in which four riders compete to see
who is the first to complete the track. The races are
descending and are used to be very intense and very short,
lasting between 30 seconds and one minute. This discipline
is really new and includes rounds in which the fastest
competitor is who passes to the next phase.
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In a television program makes a competition every year, sponsored by audi, and the audi nines 2021 is when there
new tricks, never seen before, these people would prefer to practice the Freeride modality, there were 3 tricks
that they make for the first time, the first one was Elias Ruso is 22 years old and is who did a frontflip heel
clicker, and the third one was 30 years old Caroline Buchanan, she is the first woman who did a frontflip.
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BEST MTB RIDERS

Leonardo Páez Greg Minnaar Hans Rey

From colombia, Leonardo

From south africa, Greg Hans Rey is from Alemania,
Paez is 39 years, he would
Minnaar is 39 years, and is a freeriding rider, known
rather the cross country
have 11 medals of world for testing the sport and
and won the UCI world
championships many bicycles
championship in 2019

Nino Schurter Gunn-Rita Dahle

From Norway, Rita Dahle is a

Nino Shurter is from
woman, and she would rather
Switzerland, he would prefer
the cross-country and have a
the cross- country and he won
gold medal in Atenas in 2004
a world championship
where was the olimpics
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BMX FREESTYLE
Bmx freestyle is a extreme sport that
derives from Bmx racing and is based on
doing tricks with Bmx bikes. This has 4
disciplines, which are street, park- vert
Ramp, trails and flatland. There are many
styles for and tracks to do the tricks but
the people would prefer the street style
as it is more dangerous

Street
This street style is made in public places and urban to do tricks on bicycles. The cyclists will have to do these on
the railings, ladders or some other obstacle, this style was used in 1980.
Park-Vert Ramp
This style of cycling and try the tricks should be done in the skatepark.
The skatepark is where these tricks are maked, they are also sports installations for various types of sports like
Bmx,skate and scooter in the installations there are ramps, ladders and vert ramp.
The vert ramp style does the tricks is a half-pipe which functions like a infinite ramp to achieve great tricks.
Trails
The style of bmx is in a environment more rural since it could seem more like a dirt race although it is used to
make tricks, they are like ramps made of dirt to make incredible jumps.
Flatland
This style is very different to the others because they would have to be done in a smooth place without obstacles,
the tricks used to be done with the movement of the bicycle and the body people.
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BMX FREESTYLE NEWS

Charlotte Worthington won the bronze medal for make a 360 degree turn, she was the first woman to reach the
final of the freestyle bmx world cup, she will have been the woman who inspires others to win

She in the first race In the second race she

tried to do the 360 would prefer to try the
but couldn’t land and turn again and she
that helped them to made it and was the
trust her. first woman to do it

Charlotte Worthington
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BEST BMX RIDERS

Jamie Bestwick
Jamie Bestwick is a cyclist
born in Nottingham, United
Kingdom on July 8, 1971, he
used to face young boys
despite his age.

Kriss Kyle

Kriss Kyle born in

Scotland on March 25,
1992, the cyclist
Scottish would prefer
always to innovate to
be the best.

Harry Main
Harry Main is a cyclist
born in Liverpool,
England on September
18, 1990, he has been
very good during his
career is one of the
best.

Garrett Reynolds
Born August 2, 1990 in
Toms River, New Jersey.
Garrett Reynolds who
debuted in the XGames
freestyle and will have to
win the world cup.
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The bmx race is a sport that has many risks, this

sport was born when one day a guy decided to ride his
bike on a motocross circuit in California in 1969,
after arrive to other European countries like England,
Holland and France, some time later the NBL
(National Bicycle League) was born, which is
responsible for promoting the sport nationally. 1976
is when this sport started in Colombia, a man begin to
practice this sport in our country, and Medellin
exactly is where it started, arter was expanded to
Bogota and Cali, and Envigado was where they made
the first races in the motocross track.
8 riders start from a hill called “gate” or “bmx
gate” they will have compete and pass the
obstacles of the track, the rider who arrives first
at the finish line is the winner. The riders are used
to train for won't have get tired, because the BMX
race is a high performance sport, there are also
techniques that the rider can do for advance
faster, in general there are two, the jump and the
manual, the jump. The two most important parts
of a race are the start and the curves, in the start
the runners have to give their maximum potential
to start first, and in the curves is where the
runner has more opportunity to pass the other
competitors.
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BMX RACE NEWS

The athletes who were world

champions, are used to train
every day, also In the bmx world
championship there are 4
categories, women elite, men
elite, women junior and men
junior, on August 22th is when
the finals were, the riders must
be very good because the world
championship is very difficult,
sometimes more difficult than
the olympics.

Niek kimman
Age: 25 Bethany Shriever
From: Netherlands Age: 22
First place in men elite From: Great Britain
First place in
woman elite

Marco Radaelli Mariane Beltrando

Age: 18 Age: 18
From: Italy From: France
First place in men First place in
Junior woman Junior

The best riders are used to be both

olympic and world champion, Did you know that one of
this year it is true, the FIRST world BMX
the elite olympic champions are championship was in 1982
the world champions
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BEST BMX RACE RIDERS

Mariana Pajon Carlos Ramirez Connor Fields

From colombia, Mariana From Colombia, Carlos Connor Fields is from

Pajon is 29 years, she have Ramírez, he is 27 years, he United states, have 1 gold
2 gold and 1 silver olympic have 2 bronze olympic medal olympic and 1 gold
medals and were world medals and gold Junior medal world bmx
champion 18 times world championship championship

Niek Kimman Sylvain Andre

Niek Kimman is from From France Sylvain Andre is

Netherlands he is 25 years, and 28 years, and he won 1 broze
he have have 1 gold medal in a european championship
olympic and 1 gold medal of a and have 6 medals of world
world championship championship
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Watch this VIDEO its a fail of
extreme sports safety the gate in a bmx race, the
Extreme sports have constant risks and fails, so equipment is needed to help riders are used to start at an
the athlete not to get hurt in possible falls, the equipment of MTB and BMX exact moment of the sound...

race is very similar, these sports require these implements:

The full face helmet covers all the Riders used to cover their knees and gloves protect the hands from injuries
head, it also protects the face and elbows because are joints and it is because it is very uncomfortable for
jaw, generally they have a sun visor very important for an athlete to take cycling.
because the sports are outdoors care of them

this object is not necessary, but the this pant is not normal, BMX riders are This item is also not necessary, but it
riders would rather because it’s a used to use it, but some MTB riders is very useful because it covers the
great help to protect the neck during also use it, it is thickness and hard to trunk of the body and protects it in the
a fall. break falls

This slippers are very used to prevent the slipping of the foot for
both BMX race riders and MTB riders, also have a special pedal
called clip or automatic pedal, for separate the foot of the pedal you
must turn it to the side
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