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Velodrome
About a year ago, I interviewed Seb Coe…a genuinely nice man who surprised me by remembering an interview I did with him during the Commonwealth Games.
He was in Manchester, with the connivance of the North West Development Agency to tell the north west what benefits the region was going to get from the Olympics. A rather emasculated version of the piece I wrote can be found at http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1006/1006855_olympic_snub_to_cycling_venue.html
Frankly, I found the whole excercise patronising and I was disappointed that only Graham Stringer seemed to agree.
Now, we are celebrating a fantastically successful World Track Cycling Championships at the Velodrome. My old newspaper splashed on itg, and rightly so. But once again, it bottled the big question….
Why can’t we have the cycling here in 2012????