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Despite the track not being laid in the velodrome, organisers of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games are confident that the venue will be ready to hold the test event in April.
Originally scheduled for mid-March, the test event was pushed back to the end of April to accommodate delays in the construction of the velodrome.
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