51°34′18″N 2°57′32″W / 51.5716°N 2.9589°W Newport International Sports Village is a multi-sport complex located at Lliswerry in the southeast of the city of Newport, South Wales. It is known locally as Spytty Park, the name coming from the original Spytty Fields on which it is built.
The complex includes a football development centre, athletics/football stadium, velodrome and attached cycle speedway track, tennis centre, swimming pool and cricket pitches. The tennis centre is a multi sport facility.
The velodrome was used by the Great Britain track cycling team as their exclusive base for their final preparations for the 2012 Summer Olympics.[1] It had previously been used by the team for the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.[2]
- ^ "Newport welcomes Team GB". Newport City Council. 25 July 2012.
- ^ "Wales National Velodrome to be Olympic Training Venue Again!" (Press release). Newport City Council. Retrieved 12 July 2014.