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The Summer Olympic Games or the Games of the Olympiad , first held in 1896 , is an international multi - ___MASK87___ event that is hosted by a different city every four years . The most recent Olympics were held in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil . The International Olympic Committee organizes the games and oversees the host city ' s preparations . In each Olympic event , gold medals are awarded for first place , silver medals are awarded for second place , and bronze medals are awarded for third ; this tradition began in 1904 . The Winter Olympic Games were created due to the success of the Summer Olympics . A velodrome is an arena for ___MASK76___ . Modern velodromes feature steeply banked oval tracks , consisting of two 180 - degree circular bends connected by two straights . The straights transition to the circular turn through a moderate easement curve . Jamie Alan Staff MBE ( born 30 April 1973 ) is an English racing cyclist and coach , formerly on BMX and later on the track . A World and Olympic champion , he has also won numerous other medals at World Championships , World Cups and at the Commonwealth Games . The team ___MASK50___ ( also sometimes known as the Olympic ___MASK50___ ) is a ___MASK76___ event . Despite its name , it is not a conventional cycling ___MASK50___ event - it is , in the men ' s event , a three - man team time trial held over three laps of a velodrome , and , in the women ' s event , a two - woman event held over two laps . The 2008 Summer Olympic Games , officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and commonly known as Beijing 2008 , was a major international multi - ___MASK87___ event that took place in Beijing , China , from 8 to 24 August 2008 . A total of 10 , 942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees ( NOCs ) competed in 28 sports and 302 events ( a total of one event more than the schedule of the 2004 Games ). China became the 22nd nation to host the Olympic Games and the 18th to hold a Summer Olympic Games . It was the third time that the Summer Olympic Games were held in East Asia and Asia , after Tokyo , Japan , in 1964 and Seoul , South Korea , in 1988 . A ___MASK3___ ( TTT ) is a road - based bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock ( see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events ). Craig MacLean MBE ( born 31 July 1971 ) is a Scottish track cyclist who has represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , winning a Silver Medal in the Team ___MASK50___ at the 2000 Olympics . As a sighted guide , McLean returned to the sport in its Paralympic form , piloting Neil Fachie to two gold medals in the 2011 UCI Para - ___MASK64___ Track World Championships , and Anthony Kappes to a gold medal in the 2012 Paralympic Games . MacLean is only the second athlete , after Hungarian fencer Pál Szekeres , ever to win medals at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games . A multi - ___MASK87___ event is an organized sports event , often held over multiple days , featuring competition in many different sports between organized teams of athletes from ( mostly ) nation states . The first major , modern , multi - ___MASK87___ event of international significance is the modern Olympic Games . The Commonwealth Games ( known as the British Empire Games from 1930  1950 , the British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1954  1966 , and British Commonwealth Games from 1970  1974 ) is an international , multi - ___MASK87___ event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations . The event was first held in 1930 , and , with the exception of 1942 and 1946 , which were cancelled due to World War II , has taken place every four years since then . Ross Edgar ( born 3 January 1983 ) is a Scottish track cyclist who represented Scotland at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games , where he won a gold medal in the team ___MASK50___ riding with Chris Hoy and Craig MacLean . He competed for Great Britain at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games BMX , an abbreviation for bicycle ___MASK20___ , is a cycle sport performed on BMX bikes , either in competitive BMX racing or freestyle BMX , or else in general on - or off - road recreation . BMX began when young cyclists appropriated ___MASK20___ tracks for fun , racing and stunts , eventually evolving specialized BMX bikes and competitions . A world record is usually the best global performance ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill or ___MASK87___ . The book " Guinness World Records " collates and publishes notable records of all types , from first and best to worst human achievements , to extremes in the natural world and beyond . The website " RecordSetter " has begun to take on the same territory , but with a more inclusive policy , as users submit videos of record attempts in order to try to receive a world record . The website " challengers . guinnessworldrecords . com " is similar to " RecordSetter ", as the record attempts are judged by Guinness World Records adjudicators , but the records to attempt are provided beforehand . ___MASK76___ 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 . Jason Francis Kenny , OBE ( born 23 March 1988 ) is an English track cyclist , specialising in the individual and team sprints . After winning multiple World and European Junior titles in 2006 and achieving medals in the under 23 European championships in 2007 , Kenny was selected ahead of Ross Edgar to compete for Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . Along with Chris Hoy and Jamie Staff , he won a gold medal in the team ___MASK50___ , breaking the world record in the qualifying round . He finished behind team - mate Chris Hoy in the final of the individual ___MASK50___ , gaining a silver medal . In January 2012 , he gained his first world championship title , after Grégory Baugé ' s results were nullified after a backdated 12 - month ban for missing a drugs test , and the Union Cycliste Internationale ( UCI ) promoted Kenny to the gold medal . At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , he won gold medals in both the team ___MASK50___ and in the individual ___MASK50___ , beating Baugé in the final .