A LEADING British cyclist has backed controversial calls for road racing to be thrown out of the Olympics because so many of the top riders, such as the American Floyd Landis (pictured), keep testing positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs.

tarnished by so many doping scandals, it was track cycling that had to lose an event to make way for BMX

    AUGUST 22 - TIM BRABANTS (pictured) won Britain's first ever Olympic canoeing gold medal when he dominated the K1 1000 kayak final at the Shunyi Canoeing-Rowing Park today.  

earlier in the day when Shanaze Reade missed out on a medal when she fell on the final corner of the BMX

 JULY 10 - BBC TV's Olympic Dreams returns with a new series following some of the hopefuls striving to compete at London 2012, including teenage diver Tom Daley (pictured).

 Some of the stars are at the top of their game and will be in Beijing, like Daley, BMX gold medal

 JUNE 5 - LONDON'S proposed changes to venues in the Olympic Park were today approved by the International Olympic Committee.

The BMX venue will move a small distance and now be adjacent to the Velodrome.

  AUGUST 25 - BRITAIN'S most successful Olympic for a century were met by the Prime Minister when they arrived back from Beijing at Heathrow Airport today.

Shanaze Reade, heavily tipped to win gold in the BMX, left the plane on crutches following her crash

 JULY 29 - PEOPLE living around the Olympic Park and a range of sports groups will be able to find out more and give their feedback on the plans for the London 2012 VeloPark and Handball Arena both for the Games and legacy.

During the London 2012 Games it will include a 6,000-seat Velodrome and a BMX circuit with 6,000 temporary

  RIO DE JANEIRO today revealed additional details of the city’s plan to follow London and host the 2016 Olympics.

will host seven venues that will stage competitions in disciplines including as Modern Pentathlon, BMX

  SALLY ROBBINS (pictured), the Australian rower who lay down in her boat 650 metres from the end when her team were challenging for an Olympic medal in Athens four years ago, is hoping to compete in the London 2012 Games as a cyclist.

Robbins had been a national-standard BMX rider when she was younger.   

  MAY 8 - BRITISH firms will build all the major venues for the Olympics after it was announced today that the contract for the Velodrome has been awarded to ISG, who have worked on the Velodrome in Manchester.

north of the Olympic Park, will host the Olympic and Paralympic indoor track cycling events alongside a BMX

After the Games, the Velodrome and BMX track will be joined by a road cycle circuit and mountain bike

overall VeloPark budget, confirmed by the ODA last month as £80 million, which includes the Velodrome, BMX

  BRITAIN set a record setting gold trail that left their rivals shattered on the second day of competition at the World Track Cycling Championships in Manchester tonight.

world sprint champion, Reade is the relative newcomer having joined track through her first love of BMX

  FORMER Olympic champion Adrian Moorhouse (pictured) is to spearhead efforts to get an overseas team to base themselves in Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire during the 2012 Olympics.

Club has been selected for archery and hockey, MK Centre of Cycling Excellence for road cycling and BMX

  A SCHOOL from Newham and one from Newcastle were today named as the winners of the London 2012 ‘VeloDream’ competition – a design competition for pupils to design their own dream Olympic cycling venues of the future.

A world-class Velodrome and BMX facilities will host the track and BMX events during 2012, and after

Oxford Circus at the same time as a stunt rider takes to a fourteen foot ramp and performs extreme BMX

  The BMX spectacle is being hosted by British 400m Olympic medallist and former BMX bike rider Iwan

The performance celebrates the new Olympic sport of BMX (Bicycle Motorcross) riding, which will appear

  THE second National Talent Orientation Camp, organised by the Youth Sport Trust, was today declared a resounding success as Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe joined double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes (pictured) to close the four-day event.

number of Olympic medallists and world champions, past and present, including world number one female BMX

Abbie Taylor, a 14-year-old BMX rider from Sheffield, said:  “I hope the National Talent Orientation

sailing silver medallist Simon Hiscocks, former world number one duathlete Annie Emmerson and former BMX

  BRITISH CYCLING'S performance director Dave Brailsford (pictured) has been given a new long-term contract which will see him retained in the role until after the 2012 London Olympics, it was announced today.

ourselves at the top of the track discipline, as well as being among the best in the disciplines of BMX