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2008 Beijing Olympics – Mountain Biking
Carl over at MTOBikes.com shot me an email last week sharing his post on the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Mountain biking doesn’t get the national coverage that most of the other sports in the Olympics do, but it is still an exciting race on a grueling race course. In Georgia, we had the pleasure of hosting the first ever mountain biking even in Conyers at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
An excerpt from the MTOBikes.com article:
The race will take place at Laoshan Mountain Bike Course located in Laoshan, Shijingshan District. The course includes two competition service buildings, remedy for 4.6 kilometer course and fixture for the starting and finishing areas.
The construction of the course makes use of the natural landscape of Laoshan Mountain and does not even use concrete and steel for consolidation but instead uses weaving bags with soil in them.
Olympic mountain bike races are held on courses consisting primarily of forest roads, fields and earth or gravel paths; paved and tarred roads cannot exceed 15 percent of the total course. A cross-country course includes technical descents, steep climbs, single track and river crossings.
Head over to MTOBikes.com to see pictures of the actual course in Beijing. It should prove to be an exciting event.
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