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Laoshan Bicycle Moto Cross (BMX) Venue

temporary Olympic cycling venue in Beijing, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2024
Entity authorityQ3312789 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Laoshan Bicycle Moto Cross (BMX) (simplified Chinese: 老山小轮车赛场; traditional Chinese: 老山小輪車賽場; pinyin: Lǎoshān Xiǎolúnchē Sàichǎng) was one of 9 temporary venues used for the 2008 Summer Olympics. It was located in Laoshan, Shijingshan District, Beijing. The venue was used for the men's and women's BMX racing events.

The arena has in recent years been transformed into decay.[1]

References

Beijing2008.cn profile.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Laoshan Bicycle Moto Cross (BMX) Venue” is temporary Olympic cycling venue in Beijing, China. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Laoshan, Bicycle and Moto, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Laoshan, Bicycle and Moto is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “temporary Olympic cycling venue in Beijing, China” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 23, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3312789. Authority coordinates are 39.914, 116.217. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Laoshan Bicycle Moto Cross (BMX) Venue” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.