The Underwater Bike Race Competition is an annual underwater cycling charity fundraising event organized Arranging by Discovery Diving in North Carolina .

As this was an Olympic year all the Olympic Competition cycling events served as World Championships Competition , leaving Departing just the Professional road race and the Women 's Team Time Trial to be contested Participation .

Nine countries , `` including six official national federations already in existence Presence '' , sent Sending 148 athletes to compete Competition , in seven sports : athletics , road cycling , diving , football , shooting Use_firearm , swimming , and tennis .

France also swept Scouring up all three gold medals in cycling , the only gold medal in shooting , one of the two gold in tennis , and won the football competition Competition .

Ten types of sports were featured at the Victoria Games : athletics , aquatics , badminton , boxing , cycling , gymnastics , lawn bowls , shooting , weightlifting , and wrestling .

In February 2013 , the International Cycling Union ( UCI ) announced Expressing_publicly its intention to petition the IOC to extend Expansion the cycling Competition programme by three events for both men and women : the return of the points races ( track event ) , a BMX freestyle event and a mountain bike eliminator but in August 2013 the IOC stated Statement that the cycling programme will be the same as in 2012 .

since the 1896 contests Competition which featured five track events and an 87 km road race Competition from athens to marathon and back , olympic cycling Competition had gradually evolved Coming_to_be to include Cause_to_be_included women 's competitions Competition , mountain bike and bmx to arrive at Arriving the current eighteen events .

The cycling competitions Competition of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro were held Hold at four venues scheduled Arranging to host Eighteen events between 6 August and 21 August .

The venues were Fort Copacabana in the Copacabana venues were in Clusters for the start Process_start and finish Process_end of the road cycling road race Competition , Pontal in the Barra Cluster for the road cycling time trial competitions , the Rio Olympic Velodrome , also in the Barra Cluster for track cycling , the Olympic BMX Center for BMX and the Mountain Bike Centre for mountain biking , both in the Deodoro Cluster .

The venues were Fort Copacabana in the Copacabana venues were in Clusters for the start Process_start and finish Process_end of the road cycling road race Competition , Pontal in the Barra Cluster for the road cycling time trial competitions , the Rio Olympic Velodrome , also in the Barra Cluster for track cycling , the Olympic BMX Center for BMX and the Mountain Bike Centre for mountain biking , both in the Deodoro Cluster .

The venues were Fort Copacabana in the Copacabana venues were in Clusters for the start Process_start and finish Process_end of the road cycling road race Competition , Pontal in the Barra Cluster for the road cycling time trial competitions , the Rio Olympic Velodrome , also in the Barra Cluster for track cycling , the Olympic BMX Center for BMX and the Mountain Bike Centre for mountain biking , both in the Deodoro Cluster .

In February 2013 , the International Cycling Union ( UCI ) announced Expressing_publicly its intention to petition the IOC to extend Expansion the cycling Competition programme by three events for both men and women : the return of the points races ( track event ) , a BMX freestyle event and a mountain bike eliminator but in August 2013 the IOC stated Statement that the cycling programme will be the same as in 2012 .

No changes Change were made Action to the 2016 Olympic cycling programme compared to the cycling at the 2012 Olympics .

No changes Change were made Action to the 2016 Olympic cycling programme compared to the cycling at the 2012 Olympics .