The London Olympic VeloPark is a cycling venue that was used at the Olympics for Cycling-track such as Team sprint, Team pursuit, Sprint and Keiring. It started to get constructed in the beginning of 2009 and was finished in 2011 to host the first event 2011 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup series. It was designed by a British architects from Hopkins Architects that also designed Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre in Cambridge. It has the capacity of 6,000 seats and is the first Velodrome to have an incline in the track so that cyclist can make new records. The project itself costed 105 million pounds and is going to be used for public.As for the BMX track it is going to be redesigned and also used for the public. Total 10 gold medals were given out in the Velodrome.
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