Velodrome: Stories from the Track | movie | 2021 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Join former world track champion Rob Hayles, as he ventures beyond the boards and takes you on a journey through the age | dG1fR09wX2ZMbkJRYW8

Transcript

00:00 (dramatic music)

00:02 Velodromes, our cathedrals of speed.

00:11 No start, no end.

00:16 This is where all the pain happens.

00:18 It's amazing to see how far Velodromes have come,

00:24 from their humble beginnings to this.

00:27 (upbeat music)

00:30 When you see those boards,

00:31 do you just remember the pain of training

00:33 or do you remember the glory of winning?

00:34 The bit for me that really brings it back

00:37 is when you hear the beeps.

00:39 Without this Velodrome being built in 1994,

00:42 we would have no Olympic program.

00:44 Since then, GB athletes have won

00:46 more than 25 gold medals at Olympic Games,

00:50 giving this building the nickname, The Medal Factory.

00:54 Over the last 10 years, it's just gone.

00:56 We retired and then it got really good.

00:57 It got really good then, didn't it?

00:58 You know, there were consistently gold medalists.

01:01 That's the pressure now is to continue that.

01:03 It's a safe environment to start cycling in.

01:05 Obviously, you are riding in for 45 degree banking,

01:07 but there's no cars in here.

01:09 There's also something in being comfortable

01:10 going at 60K an hour without brakes.

01:12 We have a thing called a perpendicular speed.

01:16 If you don't go fast enough, you fall off.

01:18 You haven't reached the perpendicular speed.

01:19 You haven't reached it.

01:20 I'm Rob Hales.

01:24 Quite a while ago, I won one or two medals

01:26 on Velodromes around the world.

01:27 I'll let you have that one on the photo.

01:31 So why don't you come on a little journey with me

01:33 to find out why I think they're so important.

01:36 Velodromes themselves and the buildings that house them.

01:40 (upbeat music)

01:43 (upbeat music)

01:46 (dramatic music)

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