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The VeloPark and velodrome willl form a crucial training and competition venue for British cyclists. There will be three other other indoor velodromes in the UK and the Olympic Velodrome with seating for 6000 spectators will offer much needed facilities for the whole of the south east.

The velodrome replaces the Authoriry´s Eastway Cycle Circuit, built in the 1970s which had reached the end of its working life. It hosted major national and internatinal events, but like all our sports facilities also catered for regional events and attracted large numbers os schools and community organizations. The design proccesss of the velodrome has involved former Eastway users who have assisted with its design, and with the internatinal BMX facility, one mile road cycle circuit and mountain biking circuit.

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—Olympic Games and Paralymic Games 2012: Legacy

“A world already envelops an infinite system of singularities selected through convergence. Within this world, however, individuals are constituted which select and envelop a finite number of the singularities of the system. They combine them with the singularities that their own body incarnates. They spread them out over their own ordinary lines, and are even capable of forming them agin on the membranes which bring the inside and the outside in contact with each other. Leibniz then was right to say that the individual monad expresses a world according to the relation of the bodies with its own, as much as it expresses this relation according to the relation of the parts of its own body. An individual is therefore always in a world as circle of convergence , and a world may be formed and thought only in the vicinity of the individuals which occupy or fill it. The question whether the world itself has a surface capable of forming again a potential of singularities is generally resolved in the negative ”

—The Logic of Sense, Deleuze, 

“Historically, map was not always a product of scientific measurement of the world as it is nowadays; map found its position in the middle between science and art [2]. The motivation to draw a map, in both senses, is an idea of ‘utopia’: in a map, every object, all the artifacts of men and nature surrounding them are never in defective or defunct state. ‘Looking through them, one might well conclude that all is well with America’ [3]. As a medium of science-and-art, thus reason-and- aestheticism, a map is the medium of two very distinct yet closely related human mentalities. A map as a medium, representing land rather in mathematical exactness or in aesthetic pleasantness, carries two messages; firstly the apparent depiction of land, and secondly, the very utopian idea of man in relation to the world.”

—map, land. Hong Kwan Lee 

National Keirin School, Tokyo »

Gambling in Japan

Kōei kyōgi (公営競技, public sports) are public races that people in Japan can gamble on legally. There are four different types of kōei kyōgi: Keiba (horse racing), Keirin (bicycle racing), Kyōtei (motorboat racing), and Auto Race (motorcycle racing). They are allowed by special laws and are regulated by local governments or governmental corporations.

The prize pool for the gamblers of these races are about 75-80% of total sales. Betting tickets are available at countless circuits and ticket booths within many cities, namelyTokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, and Nagoya.

Keirin: Speed Racers

Inside the High-Octane and Lucrative World of Japan’s Cycling Spectacle

Circulus, by Samuel Starr, Pomona College, 2010.