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BOCOG official: Rain not to affect cycling road race
Xinhua
Updated: 2008-08-10 22:01
Cyclists compete in the Women's Road Cycling event during the the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games near the Great Wall in Juyongguan, 78 km north of Beijing on August 10, 2008.[Agencies]
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BEIJING--Bad weather will not ruin the cycling road race, an Olympic official said on Sunday.
"The road race goes on under any kind of weather," said Wang Junyan, director of Cycling Competition of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG).
Heavy rain hit Sunday's women's cycling road race, causing some crashes.
The Chinese Olympic official said that there has been no precedent of canceling any road race due to bad weather since the Olympic sport began in 1896.
