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Olympic Road Race

Box Hill Olympic Test Event © National Trust : David Levenson

Huge increase planned in Box Hill spectator numbers for Olympic road races

Up to 15,000 fans will be allowed onto National Trust owned land to watch world's best battle for gold

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Team GB cyclists choose Surrey as their London 2012 base

Britain follows Australia, Canada and the US, and Surrey County Council says there's room for more

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Police patrols deployed on Box Hill as friction grows between locals and cyclists

Unprecedented numbers of riders head to Surrey at the weekends to try out London 2012 route for themselves

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Canada’s cyclists join US and Australia in choosing Surrey as their Olympic base

Local riders looking forward to sharing the road with some of the sport's big names

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LOCOG asks Surrey residents to say it with flowers and decorate Olympic Road Race route

Mixed reaction to floral display suggestion, not helped by "disgusting" colour palette

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Surrey buzzing at news of Olympic road race routes

Box Hill likely to be the prime spectating spot

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Updated: UCI sanctions one-off race on London 2012 route this August

Test event should draw top riders chasing rainbow jersey in Denmark as well as Olympic gold

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Updated: London 2012 road race course proves rumours of route were correct + profile and GPX

SW London and Box Hill to host chase for gold, and a mystery event this August to test it out

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Barnet’s loss is Kingston’s gain as borough prepares to welcome Olympic road race

Excitement builds ahead of this Friday's unveiling of London 2012 route

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London 2012 road races to be held on Olympic Games’ opening weekend

Start and finish outside Buckingham Palace with laps of Box Hill also on the route

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