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Article: Southland Olympic cycling dream dashed
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- SouthtownStar (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- January 17, 2009
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With steep climbs through dairy country, a proposed cycling course for the 2016 Olympics in and around Madison was described Friday as one of the toughest in the history of the games. Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle announced Friday that Madison would be the cycling hub, hosting three events, in Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid. The road race, individual time trials and mountain bike events would all be held in the Madison area, about 150 miles northwest of Chicago, with an athlete's village at the University of Wisconsin. Madison was chosen over a sitein the south suburbs, a Palos Forest Preserve course that the Chicago organizing committee put on its venue plan in January 2007. The naturally hilly ...
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