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Major Mountain Races
- Piney Hills Fall Classic
Oct. 25, 2008
- Mountain’s Edge Cactus Cup
Sep. 19, 2008
- The Fall Classic (USAC National Calendar)
Sep. 6, 2008
- NMBS Finals
Aug. 31, 2008
- Laddies Loppet (USAC National Calendar)
Aug. 30, 2008
- Leadville Trail 100
Aug. 9, 2008
- Mountain States Cup/Sol Vista (USAC National Calendar)
Aug. 1, 2008
- Transalp 2008
Jul. 19, 2008
- USAC-MTB National Championships
Jul. 17, 2008
- NMBS at Windham Mountain (USAC National Calendar)
Jul. 12, 2008
- Mountain States Cup #6/Blast the Mass (USAC National Calendar)
Jul. 11, 2008
- Deer Valley NMBS (USAC National Calendar)
Jun. 29, 2008
- BC Bike Race
Jun. 28, 2008
- 3 Legged Dawg (USAC National Calendar)
- Sep. 18, 20082008 Cactus Cup features Juarez, Hestler and Sauser
This weekend's Mountain's Edge Cactus Cup in Las Vegas will feature several big names from the original 1990s version of Cactus Cup, as well as some top current riders, including 2000 Olympic medalist and current world champion Christoph ...
Sep. 17, 2008Carmichael is a believer
Chris Carmichael admits he was stunned when Lance Armstrong first started talking about coming out of retirement to make a run at an eighth Tour de France title. But a few months after first hearing the news, America’s best-known cycling coach has ...
- Sep. 16, 2008Planet Bike cyclocross star Jonathan Page and Trek-Volkswagen’s Lea Davison win at Wisconsin’s Chequamegon 40.
Cyclocross star Jonathan Page (Planet Bike) and Lea Davison (Trek-Volkswagen) escaped with overall wins at Wisconsin’s Chequamegon 40 on Saturday. The event is the highlight of the Chequamegon Fat Tire Festival, a weekend of mountain bike races ...
- Sep. 16, 2008New USA Cycling mountain bike categories for next year
U.S. mountain bikers will compete in new categories at USA Cycling events for 2009. The traditional categories such as Sport, Expert, Semi Pro and Pro will be replaced by license categories 1, 2, 3, and Pro — similar to that found at USA Cycling ...
Sep. 14, 2008Lance Armstrong helps power the winning team at Colorado's 12 Hours of Snowmass.
Any doubts about the seriousness of Lance Armstrong’s recently announced comeback were likely put to rest Sunday, as the recently un-retired seven-time Tour de France champion claimed his latest victory, pairing with two local Colorado pros to win ...
Sep. 14, 2008Wloszczowska, Sauser take World Cup closer
In many ways, Sunday's cross-country World Cup Final in Schladming, Austria was anti-climactic, since Julien Absalon (Orbea) and Marie-Helene Premont (Rocky Mountain) had already sewn up the overall titles.
Despite the lack of a battle for the ...
Sep. 12, 2008World Cup 4-cross crowns awarded in Austria
The first mountain bike World Cup titles of 2008 were awarded Friday in Schladming, Austria, with 4-cross world champion Rafael Alvarez de Lara Lucas (Specialized) taking his first title and Anneke Beerten (MS Intense) her second.
Romain Saladini ...
- Sep. 12, 2008Armstrong vs. Wiens Take Two
One month after their head-to-head battle at the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race, Lance Armstrong and Dave Wiens will meet again. Both men are part of three-person squads for Sunday’s 12 Hours of Snowmass mountain bike race in Snowmass, ...
- Sep. 11, 2008Armstrong to race 12 Hours of Snowmass
Just days since announcing his plans to return to the European road peloton, Lance Armstrong will compete in the inaugural 12 Hours of Snowmass cross-country mountain ...
- Sep. 1, 2008Naef, Kalentieva win Down Under World Cup; new faces top podiums as NMBS series wraps
Ralph Naef (Multivan Merida) and Irina Kalentieva (Topeak Ergon Racing Team) won their respective races at the penultimate round of the UCI mountain bike World Cup over the weekend.
The competition, held August 29-31 at a new venue in Canberra, ...
Aug. 27, 2008Peter Stetina, riding for the Tokyo Joe's team, wins in Colorado.
It started at 10,700 feet and climbed up to timberline, and around every corner the Winter Park Mountain Bike Series' new mountain top circuit course threw a new challenge at the racers.
The altitude made the climbing difficult, but the ...
Aug. 25, 2008The Badger State prevails in the inaugural Border Battle Trophy
Despite a strong showing by Minnesota riders, Wisconsin took home the trophy after the inaugural Border Battle race on Sunday afternoon.
The contest pitted over 350 racers from the Wisconsin Off Road Series (WORS) against nearly 250 racers ...
Aug. 25, 2008A Fred's eye view - Close encounters of the blurred kind
During his three-week assignment to cover the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, VeloNews reporter Fred Dreier roamed China's capital city armed with his point-and-shoot digital camera. A professional photographer he is not, but Fred managed to snap a ...
Aug. 23, 2008US, Canada record worst days ever in Olympic cross-country
Both Canada and the United States recorded their worst ever finishes in men’s mountain biking in Laoshan, as Geoff Kabush’s 20th place finish — 7:56 down on Absalon — marked the top North American result. Seamus McGrath and Todd Wells were ...
Aug. 23, 2008"Unbeatable" Absalon wins his second gold
Frenchman Julien Absalon took his mountain bike status to new heights on Saturday when he became the first rider to defend the men's Olympic cross country title.
US and Canadian men had a dismal day, with Canadian ...
Aug. 23, 2008Spitz wins scorcher in Beijing
Germany’s Sabine Spitz owns a closet full of silver and bronze medals from mountain bike racing’s biggest events — the Olympics, world championships and World Cup. The 36-year-old patiently rode in the shadows of ’04 Olympic champ Gunn-Rita ...
Aug. 22, 2008BMX in Beijing - A Casey B. Gibson gallery
Aug. 22, 2008Chausson scores gold in BMX's Olympic debut
France’s Anne-Caroline Chausson out-pedaled, out-jumped and out-maneuvered the world’s best female BMX riders to win the inaugural Olympic BMX race at the Laoshan cycling venue. The Frenchwoman, who also owns 16 world titles in gravity mountain ...
Aug. 21, 2008Strombergs takes gold in BMX
Maris Strombergs put Latvia on top of the BMX world by taking the inaugural Olympic gold medal in flying fashion. The 21-year-old Latvian, who won the BMX world title earlier this year, earned Latvia its first medal of the 2008 Olympics, crossing ...
Aug. 21, 2008Zimbabwean ready to make history in Olympic mountain bike race
Antipass Kwari is under no illusions about his chances of medal glory ahead of this Saturday's Olympic mountain bike gold race.
But his coach Wayne Davidson is getting excited about the opportunity Kwari, the first Zimbabwean to compete in ...
Aug. 21, 2008Rain delays Olympic BMX and MTB events
The women's Olympic mountain bike race has been postponed until Saturday because of rain damage to the course, the UCI confirmed on Thursday.
The decision follows the postponement of the sem-final rounds of BMX competition earlier in the ...
Aug. 20, 2008Olympic MTB course tougher than predicted
A year ago, the world’s elite mountain bikers poured into Beijing for a test event on the Olympic course and the results were not encouraging.
Riders were gagging on the oppressive heat and thick smog. Some were literally vomiting from the ...
Aug. 20, 2008Fred Dreier’s Olympic Notebook: Jill Kintner’s long road to Beijing
The Jill Kintner that will compete in Wednesday’s Olympic BMX finals is not the same woman who took her third world title in four-cross mountain biking just 11 months ago. Sure, she still boasts the same chatty personality, curly ponytail and ...
Aug. 20, 2008BMX gets off to flyin’ start
Bicycle Moto Cross — the sport most people know simply as BMX — made its Olympic debut on Wednesday, August 20, as the world’s best riders competed in time-trial seeding and preliminary rounds. Located adjacent to the velodrome and mountain ...
