• Where: Velodrome, Athens Olympic Sports Complex (track); Parnitha Olympic Mountain Bike Venue, in Mount Parnitha (mountain bike); Vouliagmeni Olympic Centre (road time trials); downtown Athens with start-finish at Kotzia Square (road races). • When: Aug. 14-15, 18 (road); Aug. 20-25 (track); Aug. 27-28 (mountain bike). • Medals: mountain - medals for men and women; road - men's and women's road race and men's and women's time trials; track - time trial, sprint, individual pursuit and points race are for men and women; team pursuit, madison and keirin races are contested by men only. • Outlook:Mountain -- France's Julien Absalon, the Netherlands' Bart Brentjens and Norway's Gunn-Rita Dahle will be favored to win individual medals. Canada has probably the best depth top-to-bottom in the women's field. The United States is sending only one woman's rider to Athens. Road -- American men's side will be without Lance Armstrong, who declined an invitation. Track -- France, Britain and Australia each won five medals at this year's world championships. And the Russian women, led by Olga Slyusareva and Svetlana Grankovskaya, figure to be strong; 2000 sprint gold winner Marty Nothstein is the lone returning medalist for the United States.
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