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Cycling
The Olympic cycling competitions
were held from July 20 to 28 at three
venues: the Olympic cycling track
(length—333.3 m; seating capacity—
6,000), the Olympic circular track
(13.5 km, seating capacity—1,400),
and Moscow-Minsk Highway (100 km;
1,500)—here, as at the circular track,
temporary stands were built in the
start-finish area.
The construction of the track and
its covering made of Siberian larch
were largely responsible for its excellent
cycling qualities.
Laid in the inner lane of the track
(the so-called slow-cycling zone) was
the Indorflex synthetic covering produced
by the firm Mondo Rubber SPA.
(Italy).
The technical assistance vehicles
for the road races were fitted with 20
bicycles and 30 pairs of wheels supplied
by the Colnago firm (Italy). Brevetti
International Campagnolo SPA.
(Italy) provided bicycle parts and organised
servicing. A bicycle repair
shop was in operation at the cycling
track.
The rest of the equipment and gear
were of Soviet make.
During the training sessions and
competitions the cyclists were accompanied
on the highway by special
220
technical assistance vehicles from the
Riga auto works (USSR).
The competition venues were fitted
with scoreboards.
A specialised panel was used on
Moscow-Minsk Highway; operated
manually, it showed the times posted
by teams after 25 km, 50 km and 75
km, as well as the final results.
Functioning at the Olympic circular
cycling track was a mobile multipurpose
scoreboard (Electroimpex—
VBKM-Villesz Hungary) with one panel
containing 8 lines of 30 light planes
each. After each lap it showed the
time in which it was negotiated, the
average speed on the lap, the average
speed of the race, the numbers of the
leaders, the time of the trailing racers
and groups, as well as the numbers of
the sportsmen who abandoned the
race or were disqualified by the
judges.
The cycling track was fitted with a
multi-purpose scoreboard (Swiss Timing—
Longines, Switzerland) with two
panels each containing 10 lines of 30
light planes each (the same type of
scoreboard was used at the 1976
Olympics).
A complex of scoring equipment
produced by Swiss Timing hooked up
to this scoreboard was used: "photo-