Nelson Beasley Vails (born October 13,
1960 in Harlem New York) is a retired road and track cyclist from the
United States. He rode as a professional from 1988 to 1995 representing
the USA at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, where
he won the silver medal in the 1000-meter Match Sprint, behind
countryman Mark Gorski. Vails was the first African-American cyclist to
win an Olympic medal and he was inducted to the US Bicycle Hall of Fame
in 2009.
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