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REVIEW: HBO Sports presents Any One Of Us

29 October 201907 November 2019 By Steven Sheffield

From 2008 to 2014, Paul Basagoitia was one of the stars of the annual Red Bull Rampage, which takes place each October near Virgin, Utah. On October 16, 2015, after a devastating crash in practice, his life changed forever. HBO’s excellent new documentary Any One of Us, much of which was filmed by Basagoitia himself, tells the story of the crash and Basagoitia’s road to recovery from a severe spinal cord injury (SCI) which left him paralyzed from the waist down.

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It Was 30 Years Ago Today

17 October 201923 October 2019 By Steven Sheffield

30 years ago today, shortly after 5:00 pm, I was sitting on the stoop outside the Nob Hill restaurant at which I worked in San Francisco, smoking a cigarette. The lunch rush was long over, and the dinner rush hadn’t started. It was hot; very hot that day. We called it earthquake weather. Little did we know. I was one of the lucky ones.

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Awkward Words

12 October 201923 October 2019 By Steven Sheffield

I have a fascination with words, and I love to debate. I can argue semantics for hours, much to the dismay of people around me at times. I’m pretty sure that’s why a friend of mine gave me a book this past summer; because I was driving her crazy with my insistence on using the right words.

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BOB in Paradise

29 September 201923 October 2019 By Steven Sheffield

What is the most frustrating thing that can happen to a cyclist? I think one of them is being forced off the bike, and in to walking. One weekend, late in the summer of 1994, I had that experience.

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Tour of Utah 2019 Photo Gallery

24 September 201904 November 2019 By Steven Sheffield

A gallery of my favorite images from the 2019 Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah

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La Madonna del Ghisallo & the Ghisallo Prayer

18 September 201923 October 2019 By Steven Sheffield

By nature, I am not a particularly religious person, but I do have a fascination with the Madonna del Ghisallo, who in the Catholic faith has been named the patron saint of cyclists.

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REVIEW: The Breakaway, by Nicole Cooke

14 September 201907 November 2019 By Steven Sheffield

Few athlete memoirs are well-written, and fewer still are written by women athletes. That The Breakaway: my story, by retired Welsh cyclist Nicole Cooke, is both means that the time it takes to read it is definitely well-spent.

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REVIEW: The Campagnolo Cavatappi (the BIG Corkscrew)

08 September 201923 October 2019 By Steven Sheffield

People may ask which of Tullio Campagnolo’s innovations is the most important; the quick release allowing gears to be changed more easily in the pre-derailleur days, or the Gran Sport (and later Record & Super Record) rear derailleurs … and the best way to settle any debate is over a bottle of fine wine.

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Alex Grant, Evelyn Dong Win 9th Edition of the Crusher in the Tushar

20 August 201923 October 2019 By Steven Sheffield

More than 600 riders descended on Utah’s Tushar Mountains for the ninth annual Crusher in the Tushar gravel race. 69 miles and 10,500 feet of climbing later, it was professional mountain bikers Alex Grant (Gear Rush) and Evelyn Dong (Pivot-Stan’s No Tubes) who crossed the finish line first ahead of their respective Pro/Open fields that were particularly stacked this year with notable road cycling talent.

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Milestones: Eddy Merckx & the Tour de France that Almost Wasn’t

01 August 201915 November 2019 By Steven Sheffield

On June 28, 1969, a young Belgian cyclist, dressed in the white and red colors of the Faema squad and wearing dossard #51, took his place on the start-line of the 56th Tour de France; his first appearance. He almost didn’t start, however, and who knows what his career would have looked like had he not.