Olympic BMX Centre

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Olympic BMX Center

The Olympic BMX Centre is a cycling venue, constructed for the BMX racing events at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [1] [2] [3]

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Footnotes

  1. "BMX Cycling". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  2. "Olympic BMX Centre". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  3. "BMX at Rio 2016". UCI. Retrieved 23 August 2016.

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