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Belgian triathlete Rutger Beke returns to Saturday’s Avia Wildflower Triathlon after a six-year absence. “I love it here. It’s a beautiful course,” said Beke on Friday afternoon, a day before the Wildflower long-course race. “It’s really tough, but it’s the way a triathlon should be. The best guy definitely wins here.” Beke (pronounced like the [...]
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Avia athlete Eneko Llanos arrived in Central California on Tuesday evening in preparation for the 2010 Avia Wildflower Triathlon. Llanos, a professional triathlete from the Basque Country, won both the 2009 Xterra World Championship and finished second to Andy Potts at last year’s Wildflower long course triathlon.
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InsideTri.com recently got an exclusive look at Alberto Contador’s Specialized Shiv time-trial bike. Known as a climber and the world’s top GC rider, Alberto Contador focused on improving his time trial in 2009.
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Welcome to Triathlete Europe, the new home for European Triathlon coverage. We’ll be bringing you the latest triathlon race reports, gear guides and all the news from the European triathlon scene both in print and online. European Triathlete will be hitting the shelves in July and your daily online edition will be hot on its [...]
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Written by: Rebecca Rusch Editor’s Note: Rebecca Rusch competed in South Africa’s Absa Cape Epic stage race on on a Mixed team with fellow American Matthew Weatherley-White. Rusch, a two-time 24-hour mountain biking world champion, is sharing her daily diaries with VeloNews readers. Her stage 5 and 6 diaries were not published until today because [...]
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Written by: Fred Dreier Short track, the fast and furious format of cross-country mountain bike racing, is coming back to the top end of American mountain bike racing. The ShoAir-Specialized US Cup, the new 13-race series of cross-country mountain bike races nationwide, will feature three stand-alone short track events this year. The races will be [...]
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Fans of Ironman star Chris McCormack (and good style) take note: Under Armour has released a limited edition tri outfit that replicates Macca’s. That’s right,
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By Fred Dreier Sprint finishes decided both the men’s and women’s professional events at Sunday’s Bump N’ Grind cross-country race, held at Oak Mountain state park in Pelham, Alabama. The event was the third round of the 2009 USA Cycling Pro Cross-country tour (ProXCT), and the second round of the Kenda Cup East.
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Monterey, Calif. (April 15, 2009) – The Sea Otter Classic has announced the dates for next year’s event: April 15-18, 2010. Next year will mark the twentieth anniversary of the largest cycling festival and consumer trade show in North America. Sea Otter also marks the start of the “season” for the cycling industry. Over four [...]
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Unfortunately, the Willingen World Cup weekend ended on a sour note when the men refused to race the 4-Cross, and only 8 women did–doing so under duress. Anneke Beerten (Specialized) was the winner, but all riders on the podium turned their backs to the cameras. The downhill, on the other hand, was a complete success.
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Geoff Kabush (Rocky Mountain-Maxxis) and Georgia Gould (Luna) took home impressive wins at the opening round of USA Cycling’s Pro Cross-country tour (ProXCT), held at Southridge Park in Fontana, California. The race was also the second round of the Kenda Cup West, the West Coast half of the ShoAir-Specialized U.S. Cup series.
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Crested Butte Fat Tire Bike Week organizers have added a 100-person, 40-mile cross-country race to the week’s festivities. The long-course event will play out on the high alpine singletrack that has made the Butte famous; views of the West Elk Mountains, well-maintained, Aspen groves and wildflowers, only sweeten the pot.
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In an ironic twist of history and government, California State Parks have proposed opening a short but sweet piece of singletrack on Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County. Bill’s Trail is a four-mile loop that is proposed to be open on alternating days of the week. The International Mountain Biking Association is throwing its political weight [...]
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After a four-year dormancy, the Red Bull Rampage freeride mountain bike competition and the scene was ripe for the 2008 event. The world’s best freeriders were given a massive sandstone ridge in Virgin, Utah to work with; progression was mandatory for survival on the 1500-foot face. New Wave Cinema followed Canadian rider Mike Hopkins through [...]
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It may strike some as a bit unusual that Giant Bicycles chose to present its 2009 mountain bike team—a team dominated by some of the best endurance riders in the world—at Woodward West, a freeriding, BMX and skateboarding haven in Tehachapi, California. Make no mistake, you can hardly pigeon-hole any members of this team into [...]
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