US Cup

Haley Batten and Kate Courtney round out women's podium, while Cole Paton and Tyler Orschel are second and third men.

Kate Courtney, Christopher Blevins, Haley Batten, and Riley Amos headline the XC MTB races in northwest Arkansas

The American Olympic hopefuls won both the short track and XCO events in Fayetteville, Arkansas last weekend.

Christopher Blevins won both men's elite races, while Mexican national champ Diana Campuzano and Erin Huck went 1-2 for the women.

USA Cycling reveals a nine-race cross-country calendar and a seven-race downhill schedule that will both feature new venues.

Boston Rebellion cross-country race will be the final stop on the US Cup pro mountain bike series in 2016.

Raphael Gagne and Catharine Pendrel win a hot series finale in Colorado Springs to claim the overall U.S. Cup mountain bike series titles

Three-time world champ Nino Schurter rode away from the field at Bonelli Park, while Emily Batty relied on a crafty sprint to win Saturday

Nash and Cooper claim wins in California, and with that they assume overall leads in the U.S. Cup mountain bike series

Catch up on the action from last weekend's UCI mountain bike race in Bonelli Park, California, courtesy of USA Cycling

Major mountain bike events organizer pushes back against governing body by pulling his events and affiliated races from national calendar

British Columbia's Catharine Pendrel and Max Plaxton win Pro XCT #2 handily

Pro XCT #2 Fontana

Pro XCT #2 US Cup Fontana

The grand prize is a Specialized Epic EVO, which retails for $4,100.

The last stop of the three-race series rolls into Massanutten Resort in Virginia on June 19-20. Kelli Emmett and Sid Taberlay are leading the series' inaugural season.

Round two of the country's newest mountain bike series makes a stop in Colorado May 15-16 at the Chalk Creek Stampede.

After the first weekend of cross-country, short-track and Super D racing in the H2O Overdrive Triple Crown, Max Plaxton and Kelli Emmett are the overall series leaders. Next up in series is Colorado's Chalk Creek Stampede May 14-16.

After withering attacks from Sam Schultz and Geoff Kabush, Max Plaxton was able to break away on the last lap to win the first race in the US Cup Triple Crown Series on Saturday. Kelli Emmett managed to outsprint Lene Byburg in the women’s field on the Bonelli Park course in Southern California.

Giant's Kelli Emmett rules small women's field while Sho-Air-Specialized rider Max Plaxton fends off withering attacks from Sam Schultz and Geoff Kabush to win at Bonelli Park in Southern California.

Sid Taberlay and Pua Sawicki repeated their 2009 wins at the Sage Brush Safari east of San Diego on Sunday.

The Sage Brush Safari set for this weekend in SoCal is the first event under the US Cup/Kenda Cup banner for 2010.

Organizers of the US Cup Triple Crown All Mountain Series say top-tier riders are committed to the first event in Southern California's Bonelli Park on March 13-14.

Scott Tedro — owner of Team ShoAir and chairman of US Cup, which was managing the Pro XCT for USA Cycling — has announced the 2010 dates for the inaugural Triple Crown All Mountain Series.

After working behind the scenes on the structure of a new professional calendar for domestic mountain bike racing, cross-country pro and Singletrack.com columnist Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski says he's frustrated yet hopeful that top-tier racing will continue in the U.S.

After split with national cross-country series management company, number of UCI-sanctioned races goes from six to three.

US Cup Chairman Scott Tedro, the man behind Team ShoAir, said UCI sanctioning demands impose unnecessarily high costs and provide only small benefits to a limited number of riders. He is set to start a new 20-race series.

CTS International Classic in Colorado Springs will be the final event of the 2010 Pro XCT series.

The elite series will feature six UCI-sanctioned events in California, Alabama, Wisconsin and Colorado.

The unification race will pit top Kenda Cup East and Kenda Cup West series riders against one another for ultimate bragging rights with a U.S. Cup Unification Series title.

Organizers of the new Sho Air-Specialized US Cup and USA Cycling's Pro Cross-country Tour (ProXCT) have canceled the final race of each respective series, the Series Shootout cross-country race. The event was supposed to be held September 26 at Bootleg Canyon, just outside of Las Vegas, and run during the Interbike trade show.