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These include Performance Driving eXperience ( PDX ), Club Trials, Track Trials, and Hill Climb events.
Track Cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes ( but many events are held at older velodromes where the track banking is relatively shallow ) using track bicycles.
Track Cycling is particularly popular in Europe, notably Belgium, France, Germany and the United Kingdom where it is often used as off-season training by road racers ( professional six-day ' Madison ' events were often entered by two-man teams comprising a leading road racer and a track specialist ).
Track Cycling events fit into two broad categories, Sprint races and Endurance races.
By the 1960s, tracks of 333. 3m length were commonly used for international competitions ( eg: the Agustín Melgar Olympic Velodrome used for track cycling events at the 1968 Summer Olympics, and Leicester's Saffron Lane velodrome used at the 1970 and 1982 Track Cycling World Championships ).
Track and field comes in both indoor and outdoor formats, with most indoor competitions occurring in winter, while outdoor events are mostly held in summer.
Track and field events have become the most prominent part of major athletics championships and many famous athletes within the sport of athletics come from this discipline.
Track and field, and road events have featured in the Paralympic athletics programme since its inception in 1960.
* Track 9 of the 90s space rock band Failure's third album, titled Fantastic Planet, is named after the novel, and summarizes some events ; Ken Andrews composed the Solaris song.
The western part of the county is home to a large racing complex in Concord, including Charlotte Motor Speedway, which hosts three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events a year, The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and zMAX Dragway, which now hosts the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series twice a year.
These pioneering grass-root programs will hopefully ignite positive changes in kids and in competitive cycling in the U. S. EPVA also hosts 3 professional level events per year, held in May, July and September and are part of the American Track Racing Association National Championship Series.
Since 2003 Miss World pageant also features Fast Track events during the preliminary round.
The winners of Fast Track events are automatically qualified to enter the final round.
Challenge ( Fast Track ) events which have been used since 2003 are:
Today, the car is popular for import Drag Racing, Circuit Track, Time Attack and events hosted by tuning magazines.
Track and field events are generally individual sports with athletes challenging each other to decide a single victor.
Track and field events were also present at the Panhellenic Games in Greece around this period, and they spread to Rome in Italy around 200 BC.
Track and field events are divided into three broad categories: track events, field events, and combined events.
Track events involve running on a track over a specified distances and — in the case of the hurdling and steeplechase events — obstacles may be placed on the track.
These events include the House Track Meet, Lip-Sync contests, intramural sports, and four-way soccer games.

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Track riders are still able to slow down because all track bicycles are fixed-gear, meaning that there is no freewheel.
Track bicycles are used for track cycling in Velodromes, while cyclo-cross races are held on outdoor terrain, including pavement, grass, and mud.
Collectively, these stages are known as the Standards Track, and are defined in RFC 2026 and RFC 6410.
Track conditions are also important.
Along Track Scanning Radiometers aboard weather satellites are able to detect wildfires, which show up at night as pixels with a greater temperature than.
Unlike the Track I diplomacy where government officials, diplomats and elected leaders gather to talk about certain issues, Track II diplomacy consists of experts, scientists, professors and other figures that are not involved in government affairs.
There are now more than 500 tracks made by the game's fans, which are listed at the Alternative GPL Track Database.
The biggest systems are the Wynberg Caves, located on the Back Table, not far from the Jeep Track, in ridges overlooking Orange Kloof and Hout Bay.
Some of its venues are the Jack Simpson Gymnasium ( basketball, volleyball ), McMahon Stadium ( football, soccer ), Olympic Oval ( speed skating ), Hawkings Field ( field hockey ), University of Calgary Aquatic Centre ( swimming, often shortened to Aquatic Centre ) and a 200m Running Track ( cross-country and track & field practice ).
Civil claims with an amount in controversy under £ 5, 000 are dealt with in the County Court under the Small Claims Track ( sometimes known to the lay public as " Small Claims Court ," although it is not a separate court ).
Claims between £ 5, 000 and £ 25, 000 (£ 15, 000 for cases started before April 2009 ) that are capable of being tried within one day are allocated to the " Fast Track " and claims over £ 25, 000 (£ 15, 000 for cases started before April 2009 ) to the " Multi Track.
Fundraising activity to support the school is notably achieved by the Sunday Times Fast Track 100, sponsored by Virgin Group, at its yearly event, where places to join Richard Branson on trips to South Africa to provide coaching and mentoring to students are auctioned to attendees.
Waugals ( yellow triangles with a black snake in the centre ) are the official Bibbulmun Track trailmarkers between Kalamunda and Albany, Western Australia | Albany in Western Australia.
There are trails in this park popular with bushwalkers and mountain bike riders, particularly between Belrose and St Ives in an area known as Cascades after the Cascades Track that runs through here.
Some are buried in the cemetery ( dating to 1868 ) at Keyston Methodist Tampa Church on Race Track Road.

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The Sweet Track in the Somerset Levels is the oldest timber trackway discovered in Northern Europe and among the oldest roads in the world, dated by dendrochronology to the winter of 3807-3806 BCE ; it too is thought to have been a primarily religious structure.
In the 2000s Zimbabwe's economy began to deteriorate due to various factors, including mismanagement and corruption, the imposition of sanctions, such as among others the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001, following the switch from Willing Buyer, Willing Seller to Fast Track land reform.
Wall Street Journal states that the Do Not Track Kids Act of 2011 as new legislation, among other things, would prohibit companies from using or providing to third parties personal information of those under 18 for " targeted marketing purposes.
Juantorena was ranked among the best in the world in both the 400 and 800 m sprint events over the incredible spread of 10 seasons from 1973 to 1982, according to the votes of the experts of Track and Field News.
The Sutherland Falls, to the southwest of Milford Sound on the Milford Track, are among the world's highest waterfalls.
Despite being told as a teenager of his congenital heart condition, he persevered, and by 1977 he was ranked third among all marathoners in the world by Track and Field News.
The editors say: " More than 1 million contestants played Track & Field between April 30 and May 26, hoping to be among three finalists going to Japan to represent the USA.
Gray finished fourth in the women's 3, 000 steeplechase at the NCAA DivisionII Outdoor National Track and Field Championships to join UCCS teammates Trent Briney and Maddi Bosen in ranking among the nation's top 10.
Also administered by the U. S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, the selection rules are that the top eight finishers in each individual event, as well as American competitors who finish outside of the top eight in their event but are among the top eight of the American finishers in an event, earn All-America designation.
For example, Swimming, Rowing, Sailing, Dragon Boat Racing, Track and Field among others are also team sports.
Riddick was ranked among the best in the USA and the world in both the 100 and 200 m sprint events from 1973 to 1979, according to the votes of the experts of Track and Field News.
Storm Track, among other topics, published storm chase accounts, discussions of issues affecting storm chasing, history of storm chasing and meteorology, meteorological analysis and case studies, climatology, reviews, biographies, photography, cartoons, poetry, and classifieds.
This naming convention resulted in a deeply embedded feeling of isolation and alienation among students from either campus, as were prevalent during joint campus activities such as Track and Field meets, joint CCA events and non-curricular activities such as Post-Promotional Examinations field trips.
Track was among the first British owned independent record labels.
Crockett was voted to be ranked among the best in the USA and the world in the 100 m sprint event in the period from 1969 to 1974, according to Track and Field News.
It has among other things hosted tournaments of the World Allround Speed Skating Championships, European Speed Skating Championships, World Single Distance Championships, World Sprint Speed Skating Championships, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Speedway Grand Prix and World Rally Championship.
The houses are named after the four main ancient Sinhala kings of Sri Lanka. An annual Track and Field tournament among these houses is held at the beginning of the first term.

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