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17-494: The hall covers an area of 8000 square meters and has a capacity for 1800 spectators. The velodrome itself is 250 m (270 yd) meters long, made of Siberian spruce wood and is applied according to the UCI standards. The banked curve is 46% steep and includes a vertical drop of 7 meters. The velodrome primary serves as a training center for the Swiss team and for the junior selection, but

34-659: A conical crown with drooping branchlets . The shoots are orange-brown, with variably scattered to dense pubescence. The leaves are needle-like, 1–2 cm long, rhombic in cross-section, shiny green to grayish-green with inconspicuous stomatal lines; the leaves subtending a bud are distinctively angled out at a greater angle than the rest of the leaves (a character shared by only two or three other spruces). The cones are cylindric-conic, 5–10 cm long and 1.5–2 cm broad, green or purple, maturing glossy brown 4–6 months after pollination, and have stiff, smoothly rounded scales. The specific name obovata means " egg-shaped ." It

51-498: A distance of 55.548 km. Joss Lowden set the women's world hour record 48.405 km on 30 September 2021. Ellen van Dijk improved this to 49,254 km on May 23, 2022. From 14 to 18 October 2015, the UEC European Track Championships were held at the velodrome. This article about a Swiss sports venue is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This cycling venue-related article

68-426: A figure that resembles two semicircles joined by a rectangle, like a cricket infield , speed skating rink or an athletics track . However, this is most correctly called a stadium . The term "ellipse" is often used interchangeably with oval, but it has a more specific mathematical meaning. The term "oblong" is also used to mean oval, though in geometry an oblong refers to rectangle with unequal adjacent sides, not

85-411: A lack of reflection symmetry across the equatorial plane, it may also refer to true prolate ellipsoids. It can also be used to describe the 2-dimensional figure that, if revolved around its major axis , produces the 3-dimensional surface. In technical drawing , an oval is a figure that is constructed from two pairs of arcs, with two different radii (see image on the right). The arcs are joined at

102-399: A point in which lines tangential to both joining arcs lie on the same line, thus making the joint smooth. Any point of an oval belongs to an arc with a constant radius (shorter or longer), but in an ellipse , the radius is continuously changing. In common speech, "oval" means a shape rather like an egg or an ellipse, which may be two-dimensional or three-dimensional. It also often refers to

119-458: A portion of the office space as headquarters. The Velodrome is located between two stadiums for football and athletics, directly opposite the headquarters of the initiator, the Swiss entrepreneur Andy Rihs, owner of the bicycle brand BMC . The CHF 17 million project was financed from both public and private donations. The Velodrome Suisse is the second modern indoor velodrome in Switzerland, after

136-418: Is a closed curve in a plane which resembles the outline of an egg . The term is not very specific, but in some areas ( projective geometry , technical drawing , etc.) it is given a more precise definition, which may include either one or two axes of symmetry of an ellipse . In common English, the term is used in a broader sense: any shape which reminds one of an egg. The three-dimensional version of an oval

153-630: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Siberian spruce Picea obovata , the Siberian spruce , is a spruce native to Siberia , from the Ural Mountains east to Magadan Oblast , and from the Arctic tree line south to the Altay Mountains in northwestern Mongolia . It is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 15–35 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 1.5 m, and

170-727: Is an important timber tree in Russia , the wood being used for general construction and paper making. The leaves are used to make spruce beer . Siberian spruce cone-scales are used as food by the caterpillars of the tortrix moth Cydia illutana . Due to their hardness and flexibility, planks made from untreated siberian spruce are the material of choice for the surfaces of modern world-class velodromes . Siberian spruce and Norway spruce ( Picea abies ) have turned out to be extremely similar genetically and might be considered two closely related subspecies of P. abies . Siberian spruce hybridises extensively with Norway spruce where

187-456: Is called an ovoid . The term oval when used to describe curves in geometry is not well-defined, except in the context of projective geometry . Many distinct curves are commonly called ovals or are said to have an "oval shape". Generally, to be called an oval, a plane curve should resemble the outline of an egg or an ellipse . In particular, these are common traits of ovals: Here are examples of ovals described elsewhere: An ovoid

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204-426: Is the surface in 3-dimensional space generated by rotating an oval curve about one of its axes of symmetry. The adjectives ovoidal and ovate mean having the characteristic of being an ovoid, and are often used as synonyms for "egg-shaped". For finite planes (i.e. the set of points is finite) there is a more convenient characterization: An ovoid in a projective space is a set Ω of points such that: In

221-750: The World Cycling Centre of the Union Cycliste Internationale in Aigle . The hall was built according to the Minergie standard and built by a foundation set up specifically for this purpose, whose chairman is Rihs who dedicated himself two million francs. In 2013 the second stage of the 2013 Tour de Romandie finished on the Velodrome Suisse, and in January 2014, a six-day race was held. On 23 June,

238-432: The finite case only for dimension 3 there exist ovoids. A convenient characterization is: The shape of an egg is approximated by the "long" half of a prolate spheroid , joined to a "short" half of a roughly spherical ellipsoid , or even a slightly oblate spheroid . These are joined at the equator and share a principal axis of rotational symmetry , as illustrated above. Although the term egg-shaped usually implies

255-528: The Velodrome was officially opened with an "open day". On 18 September 2014 Jens Voigt rode at the velodrome a new hour record with a distance of 51.115 km. On 8 February 2015 the Australian Rohan Dennis beat the hour record of Matthias Brändle , who had broken it in the meantime, with a distance of 52.491 km. On 19 August 2022, Daniel Bigham broke the hour record at the velodrome with

272-475: The track is also available to recreational cyclists. The interior consists of three different surfaces, which can also be used for other sports, fairs and concerts but also for cultural and economic events. In addition, the Velodrome Suisse houses a gym, a training center with medical and physio practice, the BMC Concept Store, Restaurant and Catering, and 30 hotel beds. The Swiss Cycling Federation also uses

289-593: The two species (or subspecies ) meet in northeastern Europe ; trees over a broad area from extreme northeast Norway and Sweden , northern Finland east to the Ural Mountains are classified as the hybrid Picea × fennica (Regel) Komarov (or P. abies subsp. × fennica , if the two taxa are considered subspecies); they differ from typical P. obovata from east of the Urals in having cones with less smoothly rounded, often triangular-pointed, scales. Egg-shaped An oval (from Latin ovum  'egg')

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