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Gritters, O’Mara and Volpe Earn Titles at Mountain Bike CX Nationals
The 2012 USA Cycling Mountain Bike Cross-Country National Championships wound into its third and penultimate day of competition Saturday at Sun Valley in Ketchum, Idaho. The professional men and women, including the four riders who are slated to represent the United States of America in the 2012 Olympics, took center stage as they competed in …
National Championships Crown Champions in Time Trial and Junior Road Race
The first Stars-and-Stripes jerseys of the 2012 USA Cycling Elite, U23, Juniors & Paralympic Road National Championships were awarded Thursday night in Augusta, Ga. Riders were recognized with medals and jerseys for their performances in Thursday’s time trial at J. Strom Thurmond Dam and Wednesday’s road races at Fort Gordon. Elite Women The elite women’s …
2012 Olympic Team Announced, SoCal Riders Selected
USA Cycling announced 21 of its 24 nominees to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team, including 10 male and 11 female athletes across the disciplines of road cycling, track, mountain biking and bicycle motocross (BMX). Six of these were automatic nominees and 15 were nominated to the Olympic Team via discretionary selection. All of USA Cycling’s …
SoCal Riders Qualify for Nature Valley Grand Prix Team
Thirteen amateur cyclists have been chosen to compete against the pros at the Nature Valley Grand Prix – one of the top professional bike races in America. Six men and seven women will be brought to Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the five day stage race and receive team support, clothing, travel stipends, mechanics, and lodging from …
Amgen Tour of California: Zabriskie and Armstrong Win Time Trials
Under cloudless skies and temperatures that reached above 100 degrees, David Zabriskie (USA) of Garmin-Barracuda outrode his competition and into the yellow Amgen Race Leader Jersey during the Stage 5 Individual Time Trial in Bakersfield, finishing in first place with an overall time of 35 minutes, 59 seconds. Coming in 23 seconds behind him was …
Amgen Tour of California: Sagan Repeats in Santa Cruz
Young Slovakian cycling sensation and overall 2012 Amgen Tour of California race leader Peter Sagan (SVK) of Liquigas-Cannondale crashed and punctured a tire on a wicked descent, but recovered to win Stage 2 of the race in Santa Cruz, Calif., his second consecutive stage in as many days. Ironically, the punctured tire was also the …
