criterium
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a bicycle race held on a short course (usually less than 5 km or 3 miles)
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The event is open to cyclists of all abilities with a wide range of events taking place from children’s races to an elite level criterium race raced around the Wallingford town centre circuit.
The criterium is set to take place on Saturday at Walnut Hill Park in New Britain and will kick off the start of the 2018 Nutmeg Games.
Michal Kwiatkowski took the overall leader's yellow jersey at the Criterium du Dauphine, the main warm-up race for the Tour de France, when the Polish Team Sky rider won the prologue on Sunday.
Team Sky's Geraint Thomas finished 21 seconds behind the leader after crashing during the Criterium du Dauphine prologue.
Other sports Since 2004 the Marcha Ciclotourista has been held in La Oliva and the Criterium Ciclista has been held in Corralejo (also part of the La Oliva municipality) since 2005.
Sunday saw the Balgay Park Criterium take place in Dundee where Ythan had Thomas Gelati and Andy Scouller taking part in a fast paced 3rd/4th Category race which was held in challenging conditions as rain made bike handling difficult.