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Olympic road race route video released (+ video)

Speeded-up film takes you through towns and villages, leafy country lanes and up and down Box Hill

With 100 days to go until the Opening Ceremony of the XXX Olympiad, Surrey County Council has released a video of the route that will be tackled the following day by Mark Cavendish and others hopeful of winning the first gold medal on offer at London 2012, with the women’s race following 24 hours’ later.

The short video manages to cram into a few minutes what will take the peloton considerably longer, the speeded up film showing the route from the moment it crosses the boundary from Greater London into Surrey just after Hampton Court Palace.

From there, the riders head out past Esher, Weybridge, Woking and Guildford before turning towards Dorking and the Box Hill circuit, lapped nine times in the men’s race and twice in the women’s version, before turning back via Leatherhead and Esher towards Hampton Court, and after that, the finish on The Mall.

If you watch a lot of cycling on TV, you can probably switch on a random video and quickly work out which country a race is in and even perhaps the region, and the film from Surrey is no exception, with the towns and villages and leafy country lanes typical of the Home Counties.

Further information on the Olympic road races and time trials can be found on the Go Surrey website, while a map of the route of the road race is below.

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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albanb | 12 years ago
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Where are the hills???

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Grumpyoldbiker | 12 years ago
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Hmm!
Not sure I would bother putting this on the site, poor video, far too fast, next to useless for seeing route.

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farrell | 12 years ago
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If that were me I'd have edited out the bits where I was breaking the speed limit.

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nowasps | 12 years ago
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 31

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leortp | 12 years ago
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i feel sick

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cat1commuter | 12 years ago
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Pity the aspect ratio gets wrongly squished at around 5 minutes.

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