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Keegan Swenson & Jason Sager in a dead heat.

Today, at the Utah Cyclocross Series Race #7 (held at Wheeler Historic Farm, in Murray, Utah), Keegan Swenson (Cannondale Factory Racing) and Jason Sager (Team Jamis) finished in a dead heat for first place; which we believe to be a first, not only in history in [...]

USA Cycling lifts race radio ban for NRC

COLORADO SPRING, Co ─ After gathering input from U.S. teams, riders, organizers, officials and other stakeholders, USA Cycling has determined that teams will be allowed to once again use race radios in National Racing Calendar (NRC) competition and at the USA Cycling professional and elite road national championship events.

Following international precedent in 2010, USA [...]

Wah wah wah! Team RadioShack crying about Vuelta exclusion

Team RadioShack manager Johan Bruyneel has called for a shake-up in the running of professional cycling following his team’s exclusion from the Vuelta a España.

Bruyneel was angered that his team, co-owned by Lance Armstrong, did not receive one of the six wildcard places on offer from organisers Unipublic for the 22-team Spanish tour, despite [...]

UTCX … the finale … it’s over (for this year).

Another Utah Cyclocross Series in the books … and today was definitely an interesting one.

To start with, both Matt Ohran and Jon Gallagher were out of town … Matt is back east for a Cannondale sales meeting while Jon is in Portland working (and racing) the US Gran Prix of Cyclocross.

That means that [...]

Rider Down: Tour of Utah director Terry McGinnis

Terry, we met a couple of times, but I can’t say I knew you personally … but I know tons of people on whom you’ve had an incredible effect. The legacy you leave behind in the Utah cycling community will not be forgotten easily, and hopefully will never be forgotten at all.

I hope that [...]

Jens

Tour de France: Jens Voigt has keenly negotiated the ups and downs of professional cycling – ESPN

BOURG-SAINT-MAURICE, France — Let’s pause and, for just a moment, put peloton politics and doping speculation and Contador versus Armstrong aside to celebrate the career of the most conscientious man in the business, Jens Voigt.

It was horrifying [...]

Riders shot at Tour de France

2 Riders Injured, Apparently by Shots From BB Gun – NYTimes.com

COLMAR, France — Two riders in the Tour de France sustained minor injuries Friday in the 13th stage when they were struck by shots from what was most likely a BB gun, Tour officials said.

Julian Dean, a New Zealander on the Garmin-Slipstream team, [...]

All the news that’s fit to print …

Great profile of Garmin-Slipstream team leader Christian Vande Velde in this morning’s New York Times; it’s nice to see that the Times recognizes that even with Lance Armstrong’s comeback attempt this year, that there are still other American Tour de France contenders worthy of coverage. Excerpt below. Click through to read the entire article.

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No more CX Boom

Belgians may love to heckle the Dutch, but they love cyclocross even more, even going to the extent of petitioning young Dutch ‘cross star Lars Boom to ask him to continue racing the winter sport. I think they know that the sport needs strong competition from nations other than Belgium, and the Netherlands is as [...]

Trek-Volkswagen calls it quits

VeloNews | Trek-Volkswagen calls it quits | The Journal of Competitive Cycling. By Fred Dreier Posted Jan. 3, 2009

The list of riders who have suited up for the Trek-Volkswagen professional mountain bike team over the years reads like a who’s who of North American off-road racing: Travis Brown, Alison Sydor, Roland Green, Susan Haywood [...]