USA Cycling on Monday announced the 16 riders that will represent their country at the 2014 Continental Mountain Bike Championships in Barbacena, Brazil, March 27-30.
“I’m looking forward to a strong performance in Brazil from this team,” USA Cycling Mountain Bike Program Director Marc Gullickson said. “We have a great mix of new, young talent as well as some established veterans.”
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Torrential rain, backyard barbeques and dance parties
To those enduring a bitter-cold winter, South America might sound like a tropical oasis, an escape from the snow. At least it did to me. And a week riding through Patagonia during the Trans-Andes Challenge seemed like an ideal pre-season training camp. But this year, that temperate weather turned sour, and most days we rode through relentless rainstorms—over seven days in Chile, the regions received more precipitation than notoriously wet Seattle and the Netherlands during that time. Mother Nature was clearly laughing her ass off … More