German game from François Cardinet's collection. Unfortunately we do not have the rules, so all we can say is that it is a track cycling game belongong to a series called "Olympiade", obviously made for the Munich 1972 olympics.

Th game features different races, as is usual in track cycling games. However, the list on the box and the list on the board are different.

The box lists the five races featured in the olympics program: Zeitfahren (time trial), Fliegerennen (sprint), Tandemfahren (tandem race), Einzelverfolgung (individual pursuit), Mannschaftverfolgung (team pursuit), and then adds "dazu das interessante Sechstagerennen, und weitere Spielmöglichkeiten" (and also the interesting six day race and other possibilities).

 

The board lists the five olympic races on top (on the right in the above picture) and then adds not only the six day race but also Ausscheidungsfahren (elimination race) and  Steherennen (motor-paced race). These two must be the "weitere Spielmoglichkeiten".

 

The riders are represented by wooden pawns. There are six teams of 4 pawns, though of course the only race that needs 4 riders is the Team Pursuit. Interestingly, there are 4 different coloured dice (as in my own game Pistard), but nothing in this board lets us guess why they are needed.

As you can see, there are also "gold", "silver" and "bronze" medals (six of each). It is easy to suppose these are awarded to each race winners and runner-ups, and that the winner of the game is the one with the most medals.

Inside the box there are score sheets for the six day race. Not having the rules, I wonder if there should be score sheets for the other races.

All information about this game will be welcome, of course.

 

UPDATE December 2025: 

 

 

I have recently received an email from Claudius Tesch, who has received this game, complete with rules, from Mr Rohner's brother. He informs me that the maker of this game was Peter Rohner, who died seven years ago (that is, probably, in 2018) in Hannover, after working all his life in Berlin as a physics professor. He created a series of games for the 1972 Olympics, but the games were not successful and I am told he lost some money with them. These things happen. (I have therefore included the game in the self-published games list, in which it wasn't for lack of information). As far as I know, the series consisted of seven Olympiade games, of which his brother only had the first. According to the pictures above, this first game consists of 22 dice games, not all of which are listed on the cover. I hope I can offer more information soon.

I do not know if the cycling game is supposed to be part of this series or if it is simply a companion game. The box is smaller, and it announces eight games, of which it only lists six. This underlisting is consistent with the Olympiade box. As announced, in the booklet there are rules for eight different races: the five events featured in the 1972 Olympics, plus a six-day race, an elimination race, and even a tandem race. These were the races listed on the board, of course.

 The rules for the individual races are disappointingly simple; they are just simple roll-and-move games in which players have no strategical choices whatsoever. The rules for the team pursuit and the tandem race are still simple, but at least they offer some choices to the players. The most complex part is the rules for the six-day race. They are longer than the rules for all the other seven games put together, and they address all the aspects of the six-day races. However, I admit I have not had time to study them yet. I hope I can offer more information soon, and I also hope I can make a special section on six-day-race games someday, as these are quite different from the other track cycling games.

Thanks a lot, Claudius, for all this information.