Cyclopark in Watling Street, Gravesend, used by Paralympic athlete Johnboy Smith and Olympic and world champion BMX rider Beth Shriever, celebrates 10-year anniversary

01.10.2022 - 16:11 kentonline.co.uk

What started out as just a cycling track following the success of the London Olympics in 2012 has become a training hub for world and Olympic champions.

The Cyclopark, in Gravesend, opened 10 years ago as simply somewhere to ride bikes and skateboards – but a lot has changed since then.

The boss of the Cylopark Charitable Trust, which runs the park, Simon Jones, says it's been a "fantastic" journey to this point: "We are continuously adapting and changing. "When we first opened, it was a brand new facility and just after the Olympic games.

It was a road circuit, mountain bike trails, skate park and fantastic play park. "Like any new project, it was the first of its kind but it was not sure how it would develop.

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