FUKUOKA—Like their male counterparts, women in the keirin bicycle racing circuit must endure grueling training sessions and risk broken bones and other serious injuries in the fierce, gravity-defying ...

Olympic gold medal winner Chris Hoy tried his luck at Keirin racing last year. He told The Scotsman: ""What you need to recognise is that you re not here for yourself. They drum into you the fact that ...

Leave it to Gil Hatton to kick off the 2003 USCF National Track Cycling Championships with a bang. Hatton, the American master of the keirin and the first foreign rider invited on the Japanese keirin ...

At the elite Keirin Academy, riders live a solitary life while they learn the mental and physical discipline to excel at a grueling sport. Keirin racing is got its start in post-World War II Japan as ...

Haruka Kawaji is unfazed by the rain filling the Kishiwada Keirin Velodrome in Osaka. Warm despite the cold and with eyes only for the racing line, she clicks her bike into the starting blocks and ...

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IZU, Japan (Reuters) - Yuka Kobayashi broke new ground this week when she became the first female Japanese rider to compete at the Olympics in a keirin -- a cycling race ingrained in the country's ...

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Reporting from Rio de Janeiro — A green-and-white scooter buzzes along, its electric motor humming as it circles the polished wooden track at the Olympic velodrome. Ivo Siebert keeps to a modest pace ...

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