Newport Beach, CA - November 25, 2008 - - Over $20k was raised last Saturday night for the SoCal Interscholastic Cycling League by dinner attendees and silent auction bidders. Cycling legends Gary Fisher and current BMC Professional Racer Tony Cruz elevated the evening, while 24 Hour National Champion "Pua" Sawicki interacted with several cycling stars of tomorrow at the event.
Dear Explainer,
Katusha? Isn’t that the rockets that have and are killing Americans? Am I wrong? What does Katusha have to do with cycling and why does Katusha have a ProTour license?!?!
Jim Manning
Dear Jim,
Well, for a short question we have a lot to cover. Where to start? Maybe, since we are a cycling publication, let’s first look at the team before we discuss the relevance of naming it after a mobile artillery unit.
They are two of Great Britain’s hottest sports stars, both vying to be the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year, but they specialize in vastly different disciplines. Thirty-two-year-old Chris Hoy won three gold medals on the velodrome at this summer's Beijing Olympics and 23-year-old Lewis Hamilton is the youngest-ever world champion in Formula 1 auto racing.
Members of Canada's Olympic and Paralympic cycling teams will be coming to Quebec City next weekend for the Canadian Olympic & Paralympic Cycling Celebration on Saturday, November 29th. The event is brought to you by the Canadian Cycling Association (CCA) and CanadianCyclist.com. Members of the cycling community and media will have the opportunity to meet and honour members of Canada's Beijing Olympic & Paralympic cycling team in the relaxed environment of the Boudoir Lounge restaurant (www.boudoirlounge.com) between 8:00 pm and 11:00 pm Saturday evening.
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Although this week’s Garmin-Chipotle team camp has been a series of meetings, fittings, easy rides, meals and team-building exercises, it hasn’t been all fun and games for Tyler Farrar. The 24-year-old sprinter is staying in close contact with his family following an October car-bike collision that left his father, Ed, in intensive care with serious injuries, including spinal trauma.
The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) is proud to announce that its founder and chairman, Lance Armstrong, today was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News Media Group, one of the nation’s leading sources of news analysis and service journalism, in association with the Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Whitmore’s Offers Worlds Largest Women’s Purse -- Again November 20, 2008; Conshohocken, PA, USA: Stories of an economic meltdown dominate the daily news and world politics. But cyclocross, at least in America, seems unfazed. Record entries are commonplace and increased purses are the norm. Nowhere is that trend more apparent than this weekend’s Whitmore’s Landscaping Super Cross Cup on New York’s Long Island.
The first-ever USA Cycling Mountain Bike Summit went off Nov. 14-16 in Colorado Springs with the simple goal of providing a forum for industry stakeholders to share ideas. The three-day conference offered a variety of industry members the opportunity to collectively meet and discuss direction and changes within the sport, share best practices and develop initiatives to advance mountain bike racing in the United States.
The inaugural USA Cycling National Racing Calendar (NRC) Promoter Summit was conducted last weekend, Nov. 14-16, at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs as 32 individuals representing 23 events on the 2009 NRC converged to share their thoughts regarding the nation’s premier Pro-Am road racing calendar.
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the collision that hospitalized Dr. Ed Farrar (see Yet another collision). Since then, I’ve received a letter I’d like to share. First, C.S. wrote in to say:
We held Ed's rally this last Sunday. I figure 700 - 800 riders showed up. It was one of the greatest moments of my adult life. Watching this many people from all over the Pacific Northwest show and give their support to Ed. I actually got to see him. His eyes were bright and sparkly and he had the biggest grin on his face!