There are a record 18 events, 11 for men and seven for women, at the Olympic cycling competition, which will be held at the Dunc Gray Veledrome, the streets of Sydney and a Mountain Bike course. There were 14 events for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. The men's road race will be 13 laps around an 11.1-mile course after a mass start. The time trial is being held for the second time and is three laps around the course, which is reduced to 9.2 miles. The women's road race is seven laps totaling 78.3 miles. The women's time trial consists of 20 miles or two laps around the road course. In addition to the road events, there are track and mountain biking disciplines. The eight men's track events are the frantic one-kilometer time trial, the individual sprint, pursuit and points race, the team pursuit, Olympic sprint, keirin and madison. The keirin and madison are new to the Olympics. The keirin is of Japanese origin and is a 1.25-mile mass-start sprint where riders draft behind a motorcycle, which pulls off the track before the finish. The madison, named after New York's Madison Square Garden, where the race originated. It is a two-man points race where riders sprint for points every five laps and switch off with a teammate in a relay manner. The four women's track races are the 500-meter time trial and individual sprint, pursuit and points race. Both men and women have one mountain bike race -- 40-50 kilometers for men and 30-40 kilometers for women. It is a cross-country race on forest roads, fields, earth and gravel paths. The competition is a mass start, and the first rider across the finish line is the winner. All dangerous obstacles are preceded by warning signs 30 meters in advance.