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Canadian MTB stage race to offer equal mens and womens purses
Kamloops, B.C. – (August 14, 2008) – The Intermontane Challenge, one of the world’s most unique and lucrative mountain bike races is putting men and women on an equal playing field by offering the same prize money for both sexes. Typically women receive 30 to 40 per cent less prize money than men in races because female enrolment is considered not high enough to justify an equal payout.
Tinker Juarez promoting North Carolina event
World and national mountain bike endurance champion, two-time Olympian, and Mountain Bike Hall of Famer David “Tinker” Juarez partners with Cowbell Challenge Inc., in presenting the National Mountain Bike Oktoberfest at Fisher Farm Park in Davidson, NC, October 24-26, 2008.
Texas’ Frisco Superdrome celebrates 10 years
As sports fans across the globe eagerly watch the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, the Frisco Superdrome celebrates 10 years of world class track cycling as an Olympic caliber venue. The Laoshan Velodrome in Beijing, which has hosted the track cycling competitions for the Olympics, is modeled after the exact specifications of the Frisco Superdrome, constructed in 1998 by the same company that built the Centennial Olympic Velodrome in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dog Breath: Are you talkin’ to me?
I smashed his face. He got wise. He called me a punk. He must have been stupid.—a Hell’s Angel in Hunter S. Thompson’s “Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
BMX: gold medalists trained at Swiss World Cycling Centre
The two BMX gold medalists at the Beijing Olympic Games trained on numerous occasions on the BMX track at the World Cycling Centre in Aigle, Switzerland. Latvia’s Maris Strombergs took the gold medal in the men’s competition, while the French rider Anne-Caroline Chausson claimed Olympic glory in the women’s event. Maris Strombergs and his Olympic team mates trained four times at the WCC this year. Their fourth and final training camp finished on August 15th, when they flew directly to Beijing for the final countdown to the competition.
Team Type 1’s Ed Beamon defeated Michael Ball to win an At-Large seat on the USPRO board.
Rock Racing's flamboyant team director and owner Michael Ball failed in his bid to attain an At-Large position on the USPRO Board of Directors, losing by nine votes to Team Type 1's director, Ed Beamon. The USPRO contest was one of several conducted by USA Cycling this summer, with votes turned in by Aug. 15 and results announced this week. A record 3,852 votes were cast as USA Cycling members elected members to their respective boards. A summary of each board’s election:
- USCF
Readers sound off on Armstrong, BMX and Olympic coverage
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More Lance? Editors, Could you please give us some more coverage of what Lance is up to these days. I’m serious, the letter from up in Canada is puzzling.