The Velodrome cycling track will be converted into VeloPark, which, with the addition of a mountain bike course and road-cycle circuit, will be open for community and club sports.

BBC: Touring the cities of Olympics past

Coaching the U.S. national team for the last 20 months has been an ideal job, and he's open to staying on after the World Cup for the next four-year cycle if the Americans play well at the 2014 tournament in Brazil.

NPR: Klinsmann Open To Staying With US After World Cup

With the billions of dollars his firm spends on research and on equipping its factories not to mention a five-year product-development cycle he suggests it would be foolish to open up and allow rivals to steal its edge.

ECONOMIST: The love-in

Observers of America's Federal Reserve picked over the minutes of November's Federal Open Market Committee meeting and predicted that the central bank will soon end its cycle of interest-rate rises.

ECONOMIST: The X-factor

Dazed but without any broken bones, Cornell flipped open his cell phone and madly dialed for help--not for himself, but for his Exile cycle.

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