Swindle | El Velódromo

Writer Max Gustashaw and photographer Hatnim Lee profile Mexico City’s  Velódromo Agustín Melgar – the cycling stadium built for the 1968 Olympics – for Swindle Magazine. 

“Once a destination for record breakers in the 1970s and ’80s, the track has fallen into disrepair and random use—the grandstands are crumbling, the paint is peeling, and the hallways to the track flood in heavy rains. Along the outside cling the bleak offices of the delegation’s sporting programs and pay-to-use bathrooms. Today a big-top circus is planted out front, with two spider monkeys blocking access to the cyclists’ entryway. ‘It has its charm,’ one of the teenage girls concedes.”

An absolutely great read. Thanks, Nick.