Archive for August, 2011
All The Way To Reno!
By Amber Pierce In the sport of cycling, there’s a saying: no one else in the picture. It’s the sweetest way to win a bike race—solo, so far off the front that you cross the line with no one else in the picture. The only way it could be sweeter? To do it in your [...]
Hincapie Claims Queen Stage, Van Garderen In Yellow – 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge, Stage 2
Aspen, CO – While his lifelong objective has been to win the Queen of the Classics, Paris-Roubaix, American George Hincapie (BMC Racing) added a another Queen Stage to his palmares by taking today’s 130.3 mile Stage 2 of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge from Gunnison to Aspen. Amidst a steady rainfall in downtown Aspen, the [...]
Peanut Butter & Co.TWENTY12′s Armstrong Wins Snowmass Circuit Race – Aspen Snowmass Women’s Stage Race
By Nicola Cranmer Snowmass, CO – Beautiful Snowmass at over 8000ft with ‘wildlife on the course’ set the scene for the challenging ten lap race. For the first 3 laps it was gruppo compacto with riders testing their lungs and legs on the uphill/downhill course. Several attacks were quickly thwarted by the altitude and Olivia [...]
Leipheimer In Control – 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge, Stage 1
Mt. Crested Butte, CO – Once again, a throng of people turned out for the inaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge. From the Salida to Monarach Pass and eventually on Mt. Crested Butte, the enthusiasm has been palpable throughout the Centennial State and cycling community. What was supposed to be a relatively serene day with the [...]
Peanut Butter & Co.TWENTY12 Finishes One, Two in the Aspen Snowmass Women’s Pro Stage Race
By Nicola Cranmer The first edition of the Aspen Snowmass Women’s Pro Stage Race commenced in classy style. While one Olympic Gold Medalist was racing her bike, the other, Connie Carpenter was on the microphone to help set the stage for the women’s time trial. The conditions were calm, although in typical mountain fashion, the [...]
Team Type 1 – SANOFI’s Bertogliati Blazes Home at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge Prologue
Colorado Springs – Team Type 1 – SANOFI rider Rubens Bertogliati blazed to a fast finish on Monday at the short, sharp prologue to the USA Pro Cycling Challenge in the Garden of the Gods. Bertogliati, a two-time national champion in the time trial in Switzerland, scorched the mostly downhill course along the eastern edge [...]
Sealed With a Kiss, Gretsch Takes Opener – 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge, Prologue
Colorado Springs – For the first time in 23 years, the streets of Colorado felt the weight of an international, professional road race as a world-class field containing the 2011 Tour de France podium finishers and five World Champions set off on an extremely fast Prologue course in Colorado Springs to kick-off the inaugural USA [...]
Peanut Butter & Co.TWENTY12 for Aspen Snowmass Women’s Pro Stage Race
Aspen provides a stunning backdrop for the inaugural Aspen Snowmass Women’s Pro Stage Race, which kicks off with a 7.5 mile uphill time trial finishing at almost 10,000 feet with a view of the spectacular Maroon Bells. The women will follow up the beautiful but brutal Maroon Bells course with a grueling circuit race on [...]
2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge to be Broadcast to Fans Around the World Through International Broadcast Rights Agreement
Inaugural Race to be Broadcast in 161 Countries and Territories Worldwide Colorado Springs – The inaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge will be televised live to fans around the world through international broadcast partnerships with Eurosport, SuperSport and Premier Media Group. Beginning with the start in Colorado Springs on Aug. 22 and concluding in Denver on [...]
Three-Peat Victory for Rebecca Rusch at Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race
Rusch crushes her former time and sets another course record to retain her reign as women’s champ Leadville, CO – Rebecca Rusch, the 2009 and 2010 Leadville Trail 100 Women’s Champ and three-time 24 Hour Solo Mountain Biking World Champion, has scored another high-profile victory – taking top female honors at the 2011 Leadville Trail [...]
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