Austin cycling center project ambitious

A nonprofit group, the Austin Velodrome Project, is pushing to build a $35 million indoor velodrome in Austin, Texas. The proposed facility, which has the support of the city's most famous resident, Lance Armstrong, would seat 5,000 people around a banked, 250-meter wooden track.

On the long run, the Austin Velodrome Project, if realized, could make the headquarters of USA Cycling move from the Olympic Training Center site in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Austin. "It would be a great opportunity to be (in Austin) as a national cycling center instead of as a tenant at the Olympic Training Center," head of USA Cycling, Gerard Bisceglia, told the American Statesman. "Our sport is beginning to ascend to the point where we need to have our own home."

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