Greig Leach

There are two disciplines in the Winter Olympics that strongly resemble all of the aspects of cycling. Speed skating is one of those. Many of its events are identical to track cycling. Riding a velodrome is still one of the things on my cycling bucket list. Meanwhile, back at duscussing this painting... Irene Schouten (Netherlands) keeps a close eye on her main competitors; Gina Lollabridgida (Italy), Valerie Maltias (Canada) and the Japanese skater who's name I wasn't able to catch. She crashed out of this semi-final heat and her name wasn't posted on the finish listing.