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The mountain bike events at the 2012 Olympic Games will not be held at Weald Country Park in Essex as planned because the UCI says the course is not demanding enough.

A report in today?s Evening Standard says LOCOG ? the London Organising Committeee for the 2012 Olympics ? will now have to find an alternative site.

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