The dance of the leaders’ positions has started as we enter another season of World Cup mountain biking! This year’s series opener gave rise to an upset win in the men’s race … READ MORE →

Press Release from Cross Country Canada sent by the Canadian Olympic Committee:
The International Ski Federation (FIS) has announced that Russian Cross Country skier Larissa Lazutina tested positive for blood doping as the result of … READ MORE →

SNOW SUMMIT, Calif. (May 10, 2002) – As the defending series leader, the World Cup Champion, and the World Cross Country Champion, Canadian Roland Green is always the favourite.
But at the opening … READ MORE →

American Mike Curiak finished more than a full day ahead of his nearest
rival at this year’s Iditarod Trail Invitational. The SRAM-sponsored Curiak
completed the 1,100-mile race from Knik to Nome, Alaska in 17 days and … READ MORE →

Joan Jones of the West Coast School of Mountain Biking has joined forces
with past National downhill champion Daamiann Skelton and Cheryl Holloway
to create CMIC, Canadian Mountain-bike Instructor Certification.The courses offered differ from other MTB coaching/training … READ MORE →

IMBA has chosen four new routes to join its list of Epic Rides. Twenty
previous rides have been selected since 1999. All of the new rides will be
honoured with a two-day celebration. The new Epic Rides … READ MORE →

Those looking to keep abreast of Toronto, Ontario cycling issues can
subscribe to a new free email service. Visitwww.city.toronto.on.ca/cycling
to sign up for cycling news updates.
Information will be sent about the Toronto Bike Plan, a 10-year plan … READ MORE →

Cannondale USA’s women’s élite cycling squad is now dubbed Team T-Mobile,
having inked a three-year title sponsorship agreement with VoiceStream
Wireless, a U.S. subsidiary of T-Mobile International, a leading global
provider of wireless voice and data … READ MORE →

France’s Euro Espoir team has a rather large Canadian connection, with five
Canucks on the squad, including Ian Condron, Ryder Hesjedal, Jean-Sebastien
Maheu, Chris Isaac, and Ryan Roth. Unfortunately, the team has not been
accepted to participate … READ MORE →

A summer camp with a twist is being offered in B.C. this season. The
inaugural Shore Group Whistler High School Race Camp will be held July 8 to
10. The camp is modeled after an invitational mountain-bike … READ MORE →

Lausanne, Switzerland will once again host the World Sports Forum on Sept.
22 to 24, marking the second straight year the Swiss city has held this
event.
The forum brings together business leaders, politicians, key officials with
sports clubs … READ MORE →

Three-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong will be racing through
the streets of Manhattan this summer. He and his US Postal Service
teammates have confirmed their participation in the inaugural New York City
Cycling Championship, which will … READ MORE →

Members of Rona, Canada’s top pro women’s team grabbed all the podium
positions at the Tuscon Bicycle Classic, which concluded April 7 in Arizona.
Quebec’s Genevieve Jeanson won the three-day event, with teammates Melissa
Holt … READ MORE →

The very popular Chicoutimi-based mountain-bike event, Le Raid Pierre
Harvey, has been canceled due to a lack of sponsors. Staged in Quebec for
the past 10 years, the 2002 Raid was scheduled to be held again … READ MORE →

The expected closure of North America’s only indoor velodrome threatens to flatten the Olympic dreams of one of the Canada’s top international amateur cyclists.
“Without the track, I’m not sure where I’ll train … READ MORE →

Six bicycle groups have been awarded 2002 IMBA/Clif Bar Trail Preservation
Grants. The $500 grants – the latest in a series of Clif Bar-sponsored IMBA
grants that began last year – support projects that preserve and enhance
trail … READ MORE →

Monterrey, Mexioc, April 20, 2002 — Battling 38C heat, Canadian track cyclist Mandy Poitras pedalled to a sizzling second-place finish in the 10km Scratch race at the UCI 2002 World Cup circuit season opener on … READ MORE →

Redlands (CA): Prime Alliance’s Chris Horner and Saturn’s Judith
Arndt both staved off fierce challenges and held on to their yellow
jerseys in the final day at Redlands. The Sunset Road Race featured
multiple laps on … READ MORE →

Redlands (CA): The fourth stage of the Redlands Bicycle Classic
returned to downtown Redlands, delivering a spectacular Criterium in
front of thousands of freezing spectators. Rona’s Nicole Freedman and
7up/NutraFig’s Charles Dionne emerged from the pack … READ MORE →

Redlands (CA): In today’s longest and toughest stage of the Redlands
Bicycle Classic, Canada’s Roland Green (US Postal Service) edged out
Chris Horner (Prime Alliance) in a strategically textbook race, while
the women’s race was … READ MORE →

Highland (CA): Chris Horner of Prime Alliance won his second stage in
as many days at the Redlands Bicycle Classic, while Saturn’s Lyne
Bessette took a few seconds off of Rona’s Geneviève Jeanson’s lead.
Generally … READ MORE →

RIVERSIDE (CA): Last year’s winner Geneviève Jeanson of Team Rona
hammered to a winning time of 9:25, more than 41 seconds ahead of
everybody else. Saturn nabbed places 2 through 4 with their big
three: Judith Arndt, … READ MORE →

Adam Coates was one of six recipients to win a SaskSport Inc. 2001 Athlete
of the Year award on March 7, 2002, at a gala awards banquet in Regina
attended by 700 people including Coates family, … READ MORE →

British Columbia’s Sun Peaks Resort will once again play host to a Canadian meet. For the second year in a row, the resort will lay out the welcome mat for the Tim Horton’s … READ MORE →

The president and founder of Louis Garneau Sports has been inducted into
the Quebec Cycling Hall of Fame. Louis Garneau won about 150 road and track
races between 1972 and 1984. Career highlights included participating in
the 1984 … READ MORE →