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Dutch track cyclists were reportedly not impressed by the venue planned for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Five-time Olympic champion Harrie Lavreysen said during a press event at the cycling track in Apeldoorn that he had visited Los Angeles for a week the previous summer to assess the track, which he described as small and compact compared with Omnisport.
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Harrie Lavreysen is set to compete at the Track Cycling World Championships in Shanghai next week after rare sprint defeats this year. The five-time Olympic champion will skip the kilometre time trial to focus on defending his sprint world title. He had been unbeaten in that event since 2019, but lost at both the European Championships and a World Cup event this year.
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Track cyclists Harrie Lavreysen, Roy van den Berg and Jeffrey Hoogland are set to compete together in the team sprint in Shanghai next week, seeking their seventh world title. The three-time? Olympic champions are reuniting after a year without major competitions together; they last won the team sprint at the World Cup in Chile in October.