Patrick Mcquaid (M)

(BEIJING, March 14) -- Patrick Mcquaid, president of the International Cycling Union (UCI) surveyed the site of racing course for the Beijing 2008 road cycling events on Wednesday.

According to BOCOG, the racers will start from Yongdingmen Gate at the southern end of Beijing's north-south central axis, by way of the Temple of Heaven, Tiananmen Square, Yonghegong Palace, Temple of Earth Park, the Yuan Dynasty City Wall Relics Palace, the Beijing Olympic Tower, enter the Badaling Expressway through Xiaojiahe entrance and spurt at Juyongguan Pass. It is described as "the cycling course with the most beautiful scenery in the Olympic history."

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