 Edmonton was home to the Edmonton Grads, a women's basketball team with the best win-loss record of any North American team to date.The Grads defeated most American, European and Olympic challengers and compiled a record of 502 wins vs. 20 losses over 25 years, from 1915 until they disbanded in 1940 at the outbreak of the Second World War.Edmonton has an outdoor velodrome called the Argyll Velodrome.